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Procession of the Russian ambassador in Iraq was attacked
Iraq-Russia, Politics, 4/7/2003

The Russian Presidency press office said that the procession of the Russian ambassador in Baghdad was exposed yesterday to an attack while heading from Baghdad towards the Syrian borders.

The office said that the Russian President Vladimir Putin was notified immediately about the incident and he gave his instructions for the Russian foreign ministry to take all measures to give aid to the wounded among the Russian diplomats who were within the process and were evacuated outside the Iraqi territories.

The office said that prompt measures were taken to help the Russian diplomats and to evacuate them without obstacles outside Iraq.

Immediately, the Russian foreign ministry summoned the American and Iraqi ambassador and called on them to ensure the security and safety of the Russian citizens and to punish the doers.

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MEMRI is selective and biased against the Arab press, and that it highlights pieces that cast Arabs, especially committed Muslims, in a negative light.

The organization cleverly cherry-picks the vast Arabic press, which serves 300 million people, for the most extreme and objectionable articles and editorials. It carefully does not translate the moderate articles. Juan Cole looked at newspapers that ran both tolerant and extremist opinion pieces on the same day, and checked MEMRI, to find that only the extremist one showed up. It would sort of be as though al-Jazeera published translations of Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Jerry Falwell on Islam and the Middle East, but never published opinion piences on the subject by William Beeman or Dick Bulliet.

People who read MEMRI are being given an unbalanced view of the region as a result. In some instances the translations are not very good, but the main objection is the selectiveness of the material. MEMRI is one of a number of public relations campaigns essentially on behalf of the far rightwing Likud Party in Israel that tries to shape American perceptions of Muslims and the Middle East in a negative direction.

It would be just as easy to set up a translation service that zeroed in on racist and "Greater Israel" statements in the Hebrew Israeli press and made the articles available in English, while ignoring more liberal newspapers like Haaretz. If most educated Americans heard the raving against "ha-aravim" (the Arabs) that goes on among West Bank settlers, they'd be completely taken aback by the bigotted terms of reference. Much of such Likudnik discourse is not different in kind from what one hears from the Ku Klux Klan about minorities in this country.

If you talk to someone who ACTUALLY READS Arab Press (like Dar Al-Hayat or As-Sharq Al-Awsat, you're not going to find extremist imams in the mainstream, contrary to what MEMRI is tricking you into believing. (BTW, no imam is going to say "Allah needs warriors." Allah needs nobody.)

Check out the statistics. The majority of Iraqis are Shiite and their mullahs have long standing ties with Iran.

You might want to look up the "Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution" and its activies/membership in Iraq and their ties with Iranian mullahs.

http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2003-04/25 /article14.shtml

Here's Rice's support for Islamic law: http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/021207/2 002120722.html

Hmmm, looking at those URL's, it's plain to see why you don't know what you're talking about. That stuff isn't covered very well in the US media.

Wow. Great regurgitation of right wing propaganda.

However, you need to adjust your RDF. (when did rove steal that from Jobs?)

for insulting our allies
- got a reference? Link? Anything but an accusation?

falsely calling them the coalition of the coerced and the bribed

Many of the nations in the coalition formed for the 2003 invasion of Iraq stand to receive substantial aid packages and trade benefits from the United States in return for their support. The administration is provided billions of dollars in "aid packages" to coalition members. Of the 30+ original coalition "members', 19 countries offering only political and/or moral support, one was named without it's knowledge (Solomon Islands), and one was Afganistain. Nine were/are seeking membership into NATO. An Institute for Policy Studies report found that "most were recruited through coercion, bullying, and bribery."

or by calling our action unilateral.

Unilateral means something much different than you must perceive. England, Australia, and the US have stood together on international issues for decades. If you do not consider these three countries to be on the same side, then you have a very myopic view of world politics.
In March of 2003, Ari Fleischer said that the adminstration has "all along said, in terms of actual active combat, there will be very, very few countries."

The original invasion forces consisted of troops from only six countries. Nearly 99.9% of these troops were from the US, UK, or Australia.
The countries sending troops and the amount of troops were:

Albania: 70
Australia: 2000
Romania: 278
UK: 45,000
US: 300,000

oh, and let's not forget
Poland: 200

Without the US's politicing, would the coalition have been created? Did any nations besides the US and UK present evidence insisting immediate action? The coalition was a huge sham, created only for political purposes.


"A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid..." -- C.S. Lewis

Check the link to defination of unilaterial in the last comment.

Many of the nations in the coalition formed for the 2003 invasion of Iraq stand to receive substantial aid packages and trade benefits from the United States in return for their support. The administration is providing billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer dollars in "aid packages" to garner support for the war for countries like Turkey. Of the 30+ original coalition "members', 19 countries offering only political and/or moral support, and one was named without it's knowledge (Solomon Islands), and one was Afganistain. Nine were/are seeking membership into NATO. An Institute for Policy Studies report found that "most were recruited through coercion, bullying, and bribery."

In March of 2003, Ari Fleischer said that the adminstration has "all along said, in terms of actual active combat, there will be very, very few countries."

Albania: 70
Australia: 2000
Poland: 200
Romania: 278
UK: 45,000
US: 300,000

Over 99% of these troops were from the US or UK.
Without the US's politicing, would the coalition have been created? Did any nations besides the US and UK present evidence insisting immediate action? The coalition was a huge sham, created only for political purposes.

As a point of clarification, the UN security council is significant because of its broad view of the issues. Marginalizing Russia, China, and France is significantly greater of a lie than marginalizing the "coalition of the willing".

It's very rare today to hear of a major company throwing money at a research project since the '80s.

Of COURSE it's rare for an oil company to fund any research into alternative energy sources.

This article credits one Muhammad Bin Ahmad in the tenth century. I've seen a couple of other references to an individual inventor of the concept, although I cannot be certain the name was the same in each case.

You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.

While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.

The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.

We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.

Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause...

Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way.

You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.

While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.

The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.

We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.

Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause.

Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way.

You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.

While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.

The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.

We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.

Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause.

Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way......!

You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.

While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.

The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.

We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.

Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause.

Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way!

You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.

While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.

The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.

We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.

Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause.

Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way!

You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.

While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.

The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.

We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.

Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause.

Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way...

You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.

While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.

The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.

We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.

Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause.

Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way.

You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.

While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.

The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.

We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.

Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause.

Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way.

You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.

While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.

The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.

We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.

Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause.

Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way.

You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.

While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.

The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.

We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.

Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause.

Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way.

Being among so many Arab countries, they have a lot of experience in dealing with terrorist threats
so *all* arabs are terrorists now ?

did it ever occur to you what made people so desperate and willing to wear explosives and blow themselves up? what cause ?
and dont give me the Zionist bullshit propaganda about attacking civilians Israel systematically kills civilians and demolish homes of civilians and suicide bombers families...is do you call that JUSTIACE?
the latest was bombing of a school by right-wing jewish extremists
read the link and fuck yourself for being so ignorant
and one more thing TO HELL WITH KARMA

During the Middle Ages the Arabs were among the most educated people in the world and were widely credited with preserving the knowledge of the Greek and Roman eras.
I wonder how many /.ers can solve cubics and quartics.

"By the 11th century the Arabs had founded, developed and perfected geometrical algebra and could solve equations of the third and fourth degree."
Arabic News.com

tell that to the poor iraqi people who are exposed to the depleted uranium we poured all over their country for the last 12 years.

I totally agree with you here, it's important to get a variety of viewpoints, on BOTH or ALL sides of the issue. If you don't like Israel, it's at least important to read Israeli news to get their viewpoint, try here for a relatively unbiased Israeli news source.

About 2 years ago (note - before 9/11) I was consistently reading both Western news sources, as well as Israeli and Arab news sources. (Try this for example). But the discrepencies were overwhelming. Comparing to what I consider a mostly unbiased site (BBC), the US and Israeli sources did have biases, but they almost always mentioned the other sides of the issues, and quoted people on the other side (Yes, Israeli papers often quote Palestinians). Recently, I've heard Saudi Arabia being really miffed at aljazeera for interviewing an occasional Israeli every now and then to get the Israeli point of view.

However, I was both disgusted and horrified at the reporting of the Arab news. If you do find relatively unbiased Arab news site, please let me know. The above site, and also www.arabnews.com, would typically only report crimes committed against Arabs or Muslims, and barely mention similar crimes committed by Muslims. Suicide bombings in Israel and attacks of India's Hindus were not mentioned, although corresponding attacks against Muslims by Israelis or Hindus were reported daily. It really made US news look totally unbiased and factual.

I am frankly sick of watching Israel do some very fucked up things "in retaliation" of the bombings. Why don't they just move their people out of occupied territories and quit fucking with Palestine? Seems like that would be a start.

Firstly, I'm a Jew that doesn't think you're an anti-Semite for the views you've expressed.

Secondly, I agree with Israel responding with too much force for bombings, and not following diplomatic paths to peace instead.

However, there are several dozen other countries doing things far worse than Israel (Sudan for instance, 2 million dead in ongoing civil war, slavery of black Christians, etc), but nobody seems to give a shit about these atrocities. Why is Israel singled out by nearly all countries for most of the evil going on in the world? I think it's because it provides an easy scapegoat. The problems within the entire Arab League can be blamed on Israel, even 9/11 is being blamed on Israel because bin laden claimed he was fighting for the oppressed Palestinians, etc. Of course there are far more oppressed peoples within the Arab Leaque itself, but since they're not oppressed by Israel their story doesn't make it out (Iraqi Kurds, Sudanese Christians, etc).

Secondly, you are either too young or have only a short-term memory. Before there was any occupied territories, there was terror, attacks, and outright war launched at the state of Israel. And even before Israel was a country, there was terror and attacks on the Jews living in the land now called Israel/Palestine. I think Israeli's hearts have hardened, after having fallen prey to Russian pogroms, the Holocaust, and centuries of other European anti-semitism. Golda Meir basically summed it up by saying (rougly) "We'd rather have people not be happy with us than be pitied and dead."

I don't agree with Israel's heavy response to terror, and I don't agree with the occupation. But when people claim that the terror would magically stop when Israel pulls out of the territories, they're disillusional. Hint, hamas and hizbollah do not accept any Jewish state in the region, and only refer to Israel as "the zionist entity". Luckily, most Palestinians don't share these views.

Finally, people like to criticise Israel and read off a memorized list of some dozen-odd UN security resolutions against Israel. Firstly, nearly all of these have provisions that the Palestinians too must adhere too, which they aren't. So it's BOTH Israel and Palestine in violation. Secondly, the entire Arab League is unilaterally unified against Israel (it was created strictly in opposition to the creation of Israel, but now it seems to be a valid entity), and have a significant block of power at the UN. To a lesser extent, the OIC (Organization of Islamic Countries) is nearly organized against Israel, and this is a block of about 50 votes in the 200-odd votes at the UN. So when people complain about Israel not following UN resolutions, it's important to keep in mind that a good block of the UN is specifically biased against Israel itself.

"ABSCENCE OF PROOF IS NOT DISPROOF"

So "innocent until proven guilty" is only for Americans? The rest of the world is guilty if the President and CNN say so?

"Decreasing motive is a good goal, but then some people will accuse us of bribing the world" Only if we do things that could be construed as bribing the world. If the US stops trying to reshape the world the way they want -- regardless of what the people affected want -- nobody will accuse the world of bribery.

"Some people have such dispair in their hearts that happiness hurts. It is harder to be nice than to be evil." It's a lot easier to just assume your enemies are evil, then to actually try to understand them. But that is a good way to make new enemies and to understimate the ones you have.

Israel and Palestine are a footnote now, nobody cares what happens there, it seems like a schoolyard fight compared to everything else that has happened.

Again, this is exactly the attitude that the world hates. Here are some statistics for you:

Over the last year, the ratio of of people killed in Palestine due to Israeli actions is 10x the ratio of Americans killed due to terrorist actions.

Sources: http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/980227/1 998022735.html http://www.palestinercs.org/Crisis%20Tables/table_ of_figures.htm

CNN today re-confirms that this is unsubstantiated and in fact we are using the base now...

I can't find that on CNN, but it is clear that even if so, it is not a command post. We have been supporting the no-fly zone for years now. Support has crumbled under us there. Sure, we'll be able to use the airport, but I doubt we'll house B1 bombers on those bases.

Also, AP just came out with this story retaliating yours. (Where is your proof, troll!)

I believe Mubarak (sp?) told us he was behind us with the same cavet that all the other arab countries are asking for ...essentially we'll support you in removing the universally reviviled Taliban and their fanatical brethern that treaten the stability of Egypt (and every other ligitimate middle eastern government), but don't widen the conflict to say take out Iraq

Here's what he actually said (from a UPI/ArabicNews story recently):

"When asked about the impact of this terrorist attack on the whole world, the President [Mubarak] said it alerted the international community to the need to take transnational terrorism more seriously through actions not words. "But we must be very careful while going about such an enterprise. The current plans of the US administration to build an anti-terrorism alliance threatens to split the world as it will include some countries and seclude others," he warned. He reiterated that it was wiser and more feasible to call for an international anti-terror conference (an idea which the President championed for so many years) under the umbrella of the United Nations to endorse a global agreement to fight terrorism. He said the agreement must be carefully designed and must be equally binding to all countries without allowing for exceptions.

So you see, he said we arn't going to get anywhere without the UN.

You're just a troll lookin in all the wrong places..

Pan