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Hunky Dory.
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He could have even stuck an abbreviation in his name and become Irish, like O’Bama instead of sounding like Bin, whats-his-face.
All this fuss over Obama resigning from his church Trinity, and it would appear, brought on by adding yet more fuel on the embers of the Wright controversy by none other than a Catholic priest, Father Pfleger.
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I am referring to the soldiers who are fighting a war they don’t fully understand and yet. How are we to comprehend the madness that inflicted itself, through the actions of the soldiers stationed at Basra and the death of Mr Baha Musa?
TenPercent says it with passion
The sad episode is about Corporal Donald Payne, 34, of the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment, charged with inhuman treatment and the manslaughter of Baha Musa on September 15, 2003; perverting the course of justice; and with inhuman treatment of eight other named Iraqis. Lance Corporal Wayne Crowcroft, 21, and Private Darren Fallon, 22, of the same regiment, are charged with inhuman treatment of Iraqis.
[T]he Ministry of Defence bowed to pressure yesterday by agreeing to hold a public inquiry into the death of an Iraqi hotel worker in British custody in Basra.
Baha Musa suffered 93 injuries at the hands of British soldiers in September 2003. The 26-year-old receptionist was subjected to 36 hours of beatings and abusive treatment, including being double-hooded with hessian sacks in stifling conditions.
After a five-year campaign by the relatives of Mr Musa, Des Browne, the Defence Secretary, announced that the death is to be investigated at a full public inquiry conducted by a High Court judge.
Only one member of the British Army has ever been convicted of a charge linked to the death of Mr Musa. Corporal Donald Payne, of The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment, pleaded guilty to inhuman treatment of persons protected by the Geneva Conventions and was sentenced at a court martial in April last year to 12 months in prison. He was also dismissed from the Army.
Article by Michael Evans Defence Editor. Read the whole report here
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How many times have you heard those pearls of wisdom. I had to learn that lesson and swallow a bitter pill.
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Busy in my thoughts as I approached the waiting area to board the ferry, I noticed these two giggly teenagers munching crisps and the two empty seats nearby. So I plonked myself not paying anyone any particular attention but still deep in my thoughts, if I should hire a carpet shampooing machine or should I get rid of the carpet altogether and replace it with nice bamboo flooring as I had done in the bedrooms.
I boarded the ferry still with a myriad of random thoughts.
But the question I want to pose;
What do we project to others, as we go about our daily lives?
You see, as we we were getting off I was in the process of collecting my rucksack when I looked up and caught the eye of one of these giggly girls, who flashed a smile. Just a quick smile, there one millisecond and gone the next.
I did nothing. I thought! How wrong could I be, because, I must have been frowning, as the other girl said to her (the smiler)
“He must be gay”. They giggled some more and I was speechless.
Note to self:
Unless philosophers become kings of our cities or unless those who now are kings and rulers become true philosophers, so that political power and philosophic intelligence converge . . . there can be no end to troubles, my dear Glaucon, in our cities or for all mankind.
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The Democrats and their nomination struggle highlights the deep intellectual ravine of middle America.
Knowledge, as a character and quality for the President, is not a prerequisite for this great nation. How daft can one be if they make statements like
“If Clinton is not the presidential niminee, then I will vote for McCain”.
The fact that these two individuals are from the opposite ends of the political spectrum, seemingly ,has no bearing, relevance or consequence, to one’s action.
Is prejudice sufficient to sway the masses? Apparently so!
It is a sad day for the world at large if the masses of USA are solely driven by age old racism. And, it makes a mockery of so called democracy.
Plato the Philosopher and trainer of statesmen had this to say
Unless philosophers become kings of our cities or unless those who now are kings and rulers become true philosophers, so that political power and philosophic intelligence converge . . . there can be no end to troubles, my dear Glaucon, in our cities or for all mankind.
The word appeasement has taken on that negative pong, unlike the positive phrase it should be and all because of the policy then to be labelled forever as the policy of Appeasement towards Hitler, by the UK, Chamberlains governement.
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I very much doubt that Obama has the same set of cicumstances to deal with. It would more appropriate if we have an image of Obama with a microphone in one hand and a club (metphorically speaking) in the other.
The context of the appeasement policy is important or we will believe that appeasement is the cowardly act, of giving in to a bully.
Europe feared the growing powers of Soviet russia and communism, hence Hitler seemed to be the simple, easy solution. After all, he only seeemed to be interested in Eastern Europe.
President Bush while speaking to the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament for their 60th anniversary, conveniently forgot that Henry Ford and Irenee du Pont financed Hitler during this time and even when war did break out, the Americans were not too keen to get invoved in European affairs.
Souce:WARNING. Accuracy cannot be verified.
“Some people suggest that if the United States would just break ties with Israel, all our problems in the Middle East would go away.” He (Bush) did not say who those people were. Source
Barack Obama today accused President Bush of launching a “false political attack” after he appeared to compare the Democratic presidential hopeful’s foreign policy to appeasement of the Nazis.
Mr Bush triggered a row when he implied during a speech in the Israeli Parliament that Mr Obama’s willingness to talk to radical regimes was a dangerous “delusion”.
Although he did not refer to Mr Obama by name, the Illinois senator condemned the President for using Israel’s 60th birthday to attack Democratic contenders for the White House.
“Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” Mr Bush said.
A succinct explanantion of appeasement can be found here
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Some British people approved of Hitler’s policies.
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The British people hoped that a strong Germany would stop the growth of Communist Russia.
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Many people felt that events in Europe were not Britain’s business.
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Many British people wanted peace.
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Many British people agreed with Hitler that the Treaty of Versailles was unfair. |
