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Copy-and-Paste Reveals Classified U.S. Documents

cyclop writes "In March, U.S. troops in Iraq shot to death Nicola Calipari, the Italian intelligence agent that rescued the kidnapped journalist Giuliana Sgrena. U.S. commission on the incident produced a report which public version was censored for more than one third. Now Italian press is reporting that all confidential information in the report is available to the public, just by copying "hidden" text from the PDF and pasting it in a word processor (Italian). The uncensored report can now be directly downloaded (evil .DOC format, sorry)"

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  1. Re: Insightful? by b17bmbr · · Score: 1, Troll

    read FDR's arsenal of democracy speech. he claimed that germany wanted to control the world and dominate the US. wrong. hitler wanted lebensraum and control of europe. he thought asia should be ruled by asians. as for america, he thought we were a bastard racial mix that was doomed to failure. however, howevr, he implored his sub commanders under no circumstances to attaack US ships, even ships carrying supplies to britain. though germany decalred war on us, it was because we were openly aiding britain for a year and a half, and he figured it would solidify his ties to japan. and, he never thought for one moment we'd ever give one dime to the bolsheviks.

    we're not running for asb. it matters not at all if we're "liked". however, i suggest you look past the state run media and the clerics. i'll take hundreds of thousands in beirut. you think that woul dhavbe happened sans OIF?

    saddam had long standing aQ ties. here's 3 quickies: 1) ramseh yousef and muhammad (?) yasin. 1993 WTC bombing. 2) ansar al islam an dsalman pak. aQ affiliate and trainging center in iraq. 3) ayman al zawahiri. aQ #2, head of ops. was head of muslim botherhood in egypt for years. primary backer? saddam. he left Egypt for afghanistan in 1999. there's more too. anyways, to say "iraq didn't attack us" show a simpliostic and ignorant view of history. remember, we had a cease fire with iraq post GW1. we were patrolling 2/3 of his airspace. we were enforcing sanctions and embargoes. we had 100,000 troops of his coast to ensure inspections. on 9/11, there was only one nation we were engaged in hostile militray relations with: iraq. they had been shooting at us and we them, in accordance, I might add, with UN resolutions. bush didn't "go to war" but rather finished the war. big difference. we were not at peace with iraq.

    the connection is easy. i suggest you read several books. start with shirer's rise and fall of the 3rd reich, read Kagan preseravtion of peace, read Thucydides history of the peloponesian war, read churchill's history of ww2 for starters. as for safer, we were less safe in 1943 than we were in 1940.

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