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Thanks for your efforts in crime fighting.

Yours ELECTRONically,
Kilgore Trout

Wow, it is almost as if you might read the news! Fortunately for all of us our two economies are so intertwined that this amounts to mutual assured suicide. (Let us hope that MAS is much better than MAD.) The bad news is that some political leaders on both sides probably have no problems with slitting their own country's throat just for dogma's sake.

"What ever happened to The North American Union?"

Full steam ahead. 2008 implementation.

http://www.vivelecanada.ca/staticpages/index.php/2 0060830133702539

Excellent, feel free to stay in Canada where your freedoms are protected. Well, except your freedom of speech, eh?

http://census.vivelecanada.ca Lockheed Martin is an american company, based in Maryland.

If you want to say the real translation is elsewhere, please post it, o Arabic expert.

I said I was in a hurry, know how to use google do you? In a google news search for "Iran translation", fourth link. This article mentions names and publications, I trust you can manage from there on your own? Or do you need your hand held as we journey through the wonderful world of propaganda?

The one that's building nukes? Or is that all faulty intelligence? And how do you account for the many statements that Iran's president has made in recent months, including the tone of the letter he sent Bush? (Right, I know... you haven't read it.)

You mean the letter in from 2003?. The one where they offered talks on officially reconizing Israel, nuclear proliferation, ending all support of terrorism?

Or perhaps it's the country that is internationally considered the most potentially destabilizing in the region.

Israel? Who have also built illegal nukes? Who have in fact invaded other countries on many occasions? Who are probably raining down shells on civilians as I type this?

And are you really saying that in a comparison of the civilian, "peacetime" deaths that Hussein caused, we should be tallying up the insurgents and terrorists - the people who are blowing up marketplaces and mosques, innocents, women and children - we should feel the same way about their deaths as we do the thousands of Kurds that Hussein gassed, or the tens of thousands of ethnic minorities and political dissidents that his regime tortured and killed without warrant?

WTF? Make up your mind...what does the 600,000 figure represent? That is those people, both innocent and "terrorist" (in Saddams eyes). Both figures that I mention involve both civilian and combat deaths. You are arguing my point for me here!

They're full of Iraqi citizens, most of them executed without trials, "disappeared" in the best Venezuelan tradition.

Which tradition was that? When the CIA were helping out down there? We've been executing people in Iraq without trial regularly. Or have you not been reading the news? Soldiers do this in war, it's what happens when you put them in those situations.

For the real bigwigs, their families were also killed - wives raped in front of husbands, children killed in front of mothers.

We've done that as well! There is footage from Abu Graib that is way too messed up to release. Yes, we raped their children in front of them. look here. Yes, I know it's a wiki but it has links to names, places and publications on this.

Now tell me how that compares, at all, to insurgent deaths, or to the deaths of coalition troops who fight, whether or not you agree with it, to make that country a better place.

Because "making a better place" is neither why we went there, or what the net result will be. Iraq used to be secular; now vast swathes of land are rulled by Islamic nutters who have banned women from education. They cannot walk the street without minders and the correct clothing. The stuff we started hating the Taliban for (after they stopped being nice to our oil firms). You cannot run a business due to the ongoing violence. I fail to see the "better" here, except perhaps to Harliburtons bottom line.

Tell me, how can "freedom" exist in a place where the police cannot even show their faces when on duty? Do you know what "freedom" entails? "keeping your head down and praying" isn't a part of it.

PS everytime you critize my spelling, remember one simple thing...I'm dyslexic and don't really care either way.

Obviously you do not appreciate the melodies of Avril Lavigne, the emotional maturity and unpretentiousness of Alanis Morrisette, the economy of expression of the Bare Naked Ladies, the understated phrasing of Céline Dion, or the raw production style of David Foster.

Hey, I thought Alanis and Celine were US citizens?!?!

Thanks to NAFTA

Because the baby neo-con politicians have fallen hook line and sinker for the "lowest cost private sector is good at all costs" story. And even more so for the "send all of our jobs offshore because it's cheaper" story. This after all is the country that will have their next census conducted by an American corporation.

I would think it obvious to any right thinking person that moving personal data to another country, or even into the hands of a foreign American corporation, pretty much places that information where the US government can compel said corporation to hand it over to them.

This is after a recent fall in rankings. Canada held first for nearly a decade.