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Well, we know what Howard thinks now (But do we care?)

New BLOGger on the scene takes offence to one Canadian politicians comments.

(ORACULATIONS) — You Canadians are just sucker fish who swim along side the U.S. whale. Your sole utility is to feed off the barnacles growing on our skin. You mean nothing to us. You’re just there. Every Canadian politician can call us whatever they want and quite frankly it will have all the effect of a pop corn fart at a war.

You need us. We don’t need you. Sell your lumber to Panama, Haiti, or Cuba for rubles or something. Dump your canola oil to Angola. Sell your oil to the Saudis. One day we will pass a law banning your union busting labor practices in the movie business, and then there will be nobody but Hollywood Liberal Producers and movie stars to mourn for you.

Your country imorts Nazi War Ciminals, terrorists, and other scum, all of whom wish they could figure out a way to get into a decent country like the U.S.A. Now you support a genocidal thug in the Mid-East, killer of at least 150,000 of his own people, a user of WMD, and a channel for terrorist attacks on the U.S. You hope they do another 9/11 on us.
It’s the Republicans who are bastards. Me and Hill just want to keep on looking good

No comments feature on the site yet (or even an email link for that matter so I can’t even tell him I’ve linked to his site), hope he figues out how to do it soon – this sort of thing is way to good not to say something about. He needs to be reminded that the U.S. is quite heavily dependent on Canadian energy right now, is more than likely going to be very heavily dependent on our water one day soon, and needs the protection of our flag on a regular basis for vacation purposes.

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Turkish Parliament rejects U.S. troop deal

(The Globe & Mail) — In a serious blow to U.S. war plans, the speaker of Turkey’s Parliament nullified a legislative vote Saturday that would have allowed deployment of 62,000 U.S. combat troops in Turkey to open a northern front against Iraq.

Obviously a major set back for U.S. Administration, I wonder how many days it will be until we hear about how the U.S. will chooses to punish this particular nation who wouldn’t bow to their wishes?

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(News24.com) Washington – The United States appeared stunned by the Turkish parliament’s refusal on Saturday to allow the deployment of US troops for a possible war with Iraq.

US officials, who had been prepared to hail the parliament’s approval of the deployment based on initial reports that the vote had succeeded, expressed consternation when told that it had in fact been defeated.

“They did what?” blurted one State Department official.

How is it that when the U.S. Administration sets sail on a course that they determine is in their best interests they get all worked up if another nation does the same?

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Holocaust denier acceptable to the United States

This article via Little Green Footballs on the appointment of Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) as Palestinian Prime Minister.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (UPI) — U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said Friday that senior Palestinian official Mahmud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazin, would be acceptable to the United States as a replacement for Yasser Arafat.

Frontpage Magazine.com however remembers Abbas as a holocaust denier.

Is this a case of the U.S. Administration thinking this sort of thing just doesn’t matter to the world at large? Or maybe more of their faulty (although much touted) intelligence work?

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Public spat mars Arab summit

(BBC News) — A public slanging match between the Libyan and Saudi leaders dominated the Arab League summit on Iraq.

The de factor ruler of Saudi Arabia, Prince Abdullah Bin Abdel Aziz, stormed out of the meeting after Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi berated him for seeking US protection in the 1991 Gulf War.

A small taste of the regional problems that the U.S. led war on Iraq will create unless they have the backing of the United Nations. My thoughts are that this consideration is not exactly high on their list of things to worry about though, a fractured Middle East may provide them with more opportunities than a united one.

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Imagine if an Iraqi nuclear weapon …….

……. the beginning line of a paragraph on the Blogs of War reads.

When did they accomplish this anyway? I suppose if fear mongering is the only tool you have at your disposal you need to use it…………. I imagine the Iraqi regime wishes it had a nuke or two but that whole deal is just wishfull thinking on both Saddams and the rights part.

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U.S. Court Stands by Controversial Pledge Ruling

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The U.S. appeals court that infuriated Americans by declaring the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional refused to reconsider on Friday, setting the stage for a Supreme Court showdown over whether two words — “under God” — breach the wall separating church and state.

The decision by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to stand by its stunning ruling prompted a quick reaction from the U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, who said the Justice Department would “spare no effort” to defend the Pledge — presumably by an appeal to the nation’s highest court.

Personally I do not believe that the religion (any religion or belief structure) has any business in the workings of government – not everyone believes in -a- god let alone the god of the conventional western masses.

Until such time as the conventional right is willing to stand around a bonefire in a field with me and pay honour Lugh they have no right to ask me, or anyone else, to have anything do to with their god.

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U.S. Diplomat’s Letter of Resignation

(The following is a paragraph from the resignation letter of John Brady Kiesling sent too Secretary of State Powell – it makes for very interesting reading and shows not only how divided the world has become as a result of the current U.S. Administration but gives some insight into divisions within the government itself. Mr. Kiesling is obviously a very comitted and brave individual.)

(The NY Times) – It is inevitable that during twenty years with the State Department I would become more sophisticated and cynical about the narrow and selfish bureaucratic motives that sometimes shaped our policies. Human nature is what it is, and I was rewarded and promoted for understanding human nature. But until this Administration it had been possible to believe that by upholding the policies of my president I was also upholding the interests of the American people and the world. I believe it no longer.

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Dioceses Resist Releasing Names of Accused Priests

(The New York Times) — CLEVELAND, Feb. 26: When a grand jury looking into sexual abuse by members of the Catholic clergy finished its work in December, it reported that it had uncovered accusations against 145 priests.

An interesting and difficult discussion, on the one hand the community has a right to protect itself (though knowledge in this case) from those who would prey on their children while on the other there is he fundamental presumption of innocence until proven guilty.

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U.S. Freedom Of The Press?

‘What I saw was a bunch of filled-in trenches with people’s arms and legs sticking out of them. For all I know, we could have killed thousands’ (Patrick J Sloyan on how the mass slaughter of a group of Iraqis went unreported )

(Guardian Unlimited) — According to White House officials, no final decisions have been made by Bush, Cheney and current defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld. “We’re still negotiating with the media,” said one administration official. But Bush has already implemented ground rules that require journalists to give up their mobile and satellite phones to military commanders who would control the movements of these so-called pool reporters during Desert Storm II. If the final rules, organised by the Pentagon, are anything like the pool system designed by Bush Sr and Cheney in 1991, the world will be given a cloudy mixture of video footage and misinformation that will fog the reality of war.

This is not an issue about people being wounded and killed in any number of ways, people die and are wounded in wars – it’s just one of the things that we need to be very aware of if we’re going to entertain the idea of going to war.

What this issue is about is the U.S. Government actively working against the press to ensure that the real news and the real images of war they were engaged in did not get back to the American people – maybe if it had the minority who support this war so whole heartedly would be having second thoughts.

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U.S. Diplomat Resigns Over Iraq Policy

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A senior U.S. diplomat based in Athens has resigned in protest at the Bush administration’s policy on Iraq, State Department officials said on Thursday.

Brady Kiesling, 45, political counselor at the embassy and a foreign service officer for about 20 years, sent his resignation decision to Secretary of State Colin Powell by fax on Monday, The New York Times said.