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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (188752)	6/7/2006 9:19:50 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Some nations need to be put together (germany) and some need to be taken apart (yugo). Vietnam and Korea are two more that are/need to be together. Iraq is one that cant be put back together, despite your best efforts. I think Ahmadinejad is a CIA plant. Given the way our intel has been, would that surprise you? He is a front man who can play to the dark side while the moderates can make the compromises. Sun said that Ahmadinejad was using the rhetoric to appeal to the arabs--sunnis especially to make it impossible for them to oppose iran or not come to irans aid in case of war with the US.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (188752)	6/7/2006 11:00:21 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 281500

when Ahmadinejad's position is discredited and he is forced from power, humiliated.. along with his Islamo-Fascist agenda. The problem as I see it, is that most of the rest of the world thinks this is the general American foreign policy approach: We want them discredited, forced from power and humiliated. This applies to anything not pro-American. But neither is it ideal to divide the world along the lines of "blood and soil". People have got to learn to live with one another and compromise. And that's not going to be accomplished by encouraging the world to divide along tribal and ethnic lines. I agree with your intent, but have come to doubt the wisdom of ignoring thousands or tens of thousands of years of biology. The reason we have ethnicity is precisely because humans segregated for long periods of time. So to claim that magically, we now can entirely rid ourselves of segregation and do so without unintended results, is, at a minimum, a bit astonishing.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (188752)	6/8/2006 4:11:00 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 281500

Officials: Al-Qaida in Iraq's al-Zarqawi killed NBC learns most wanted man in Iraq killed by Special Ops Forces NBC News and news services MSNBC.com Updated: 12:36 a.m. PT June 8, 2006 BAGHDAD, Iraq - Al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed overnight in an operation by U.S. Special Operations Forces, U.S. military officials told NBC News on Thursday. ABC News reported that he was killed in a U.S. air attack on a house in Baghdad. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was expected to make an important announcement at a news conference in Baghdad on Thursday, one of his advisers said. Al-Maliki adviser Adnan al-Kazimi told The Associated Press that he had heard a report that Jordanian terrorism mastermind al-Zarqawi may have been killed late Wednesday in Baghdad. Al-Kazimi said he could not confirm the report. He said al-Maliki was scheduled to shortly give a news conference along with the top U.S. general in Iraq, Gen. George Casey. Editor's note: This is a breaking news story. Please check back for more details. NBC News' Jim Miklashevski and The Associated Press contributed to this report. URL: msnbc.msn.com

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (188752)	6/8/2006 8:16:30 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I'm sure it's not news to you about the compromise of Military/veteran personal data by the VA. Classic INFOSEC. We don't do anything until it happens. No one should be surprised... In 2005, Veterans Affairs earned an F on the annual federal computer security report card compiled by Davis's committee, the same grade it has received every year but one since the scorecard began in 2001. (It got a C in 2003.) The government-wide average for 2005 was a D-plus, but there were wide variations -- the Social Security Administration got an A-plus, while the departments of Defense and Homeland Security earned F's. I find it especially remarkable that DoD, in particular, gets an F. I'm not surprised one bit, but it is remarkable. You may or may not know that INFOSEC programs are taking budget hits right now. INFOSEC doesn't support GWOT, it's not important. I thought this was funny... A coalition of veterans groups filed a class-action lawsuit against the federal government yesterday, contending that privacy rights were violated and seeking $1,000 in damages for each affected veteran. washingtonpost.com I would bet that individuals of this coalition [as every other group] complain about frivolous law suits...but their law suit isn't frivolous. If successful, 2.2 million personal x $1K per....$2.2B jttmab