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French Parliament Chooses Ubuntu
atamyrat reminds us that last November it was announced that the French Parliament had decided to switch to Linux. At that time the distro had not been determined. It will be Ubuntu: "[T]wo companies, Linagora and Unilog, have been selected to provide the members of the Parliament as well as their assistants new computers containing free software. This will amount to 1,154 new computers running Ubuntu prior to the start of the next session which occurs in June 2007."
oh I wonder, what was the US doing before they attacked Iraq?
The correct answer is not to support coups and tin-pot dictators[1] all over the world. The atrocities of Saddam are irrelevant to the US/UK invasion of Iraq, it's all about control over the region, and nothing to do with the people of Iraq. If you believe in the war for moral reasons, you've been sold down the river.
The correct answer was and is to leave Iraq alone, not to sell the weapons for a genocidal war with Iran, not support the dictator in power, and not invade when things went pear-shaped and he had delusions of grandeur then leave without disturbing him, not to blow hot and cold with rebel groups in his country, and not to invade and depose him then disband the organs of state without planning for the aftermath.
I guess we won't hear so much of this stale joke when the US finally retreat from Iraq; won't seem so funny then. I suppose it provides a small amount of comfort to think of others as somehow inherently weak and cowardly, particularly in times of insecurity.