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Originally posted by rue:
Open water north of Europe all the way to the north pole. It happened in just one month. Everyone knew the Arctic ice was disappearing, but this was unimaginable. Suddenly, it was just gone.

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The chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq recently filed an unusual secret report concluding that THE PROSPECTS FOR SECURING THAT COUNTRY'S WESTERN ANBAR PROVINCE ARE DIM AND THAT THERE IS ALMOST NOTHING THE U.S. MILITARY CAN DO to improve the political and social situation there, said several military officers and intelligence officials familiar with its contents.

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"Dhahy ... said the US military had threatened it would destroy the city if resistance fighters were not handed over to them.
"Last week, the Americans used loudspeakers on the backs of their tanks and Humvees to threaten us," Dhahy said. Residents said the US forces warned of a "large military operation" if fighters were not handed over.

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Don't you wish the administration would address these things?

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And Kaneman and Auraptor will lump Bolivia in with Iran.

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And Kaneman and Auraptor will lump Bolivia in with Iran.

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You mean to say they aren't ?

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Originally posted by SignyM:
And that is the point of this thread, so I thank you for your input.

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Originally posted by rue:
NOT IN THE NEWS !

basic facts

http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2003/12/19/iraq6770.htm
Human Rights Watch estimates that as many as 290,000 people were killed under the rule of Saddam Hussein.

For 24 years, that's roughly 12,000 per year. Or if you include roughly 600,000 dead from sanctions (a middle estimate), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_sanctions and 190,000 deaths from the Iraq/Iran war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Iran_War,
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Hussein's regime was responsible directly or indirectly for 45,000 deaths per year.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006
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Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000
Now, if you take the start of the post-Hussein period to be when the US invaded in March 2003 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_invasion,
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the US-led invasion is responsible for a mere 187,000 deaths per year.
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Trivial !

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Originally posted by deepgirl187:
People can say whatever they want to about global warming, all I know is this:

Here in Michigan (as of today), in a state once infamous for it's winters, there are dandelions blooming on the ground. At the end of November.

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Originally posted by rue:
Cartoon,

WE AGREE !

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