13 December 2003

How to help pay for the occupation

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The commanding general of the 4th Infantry Division on Friday accepted a U.S. military investigator’s recommendation and ordered administrative action against Lt. Col. Allen West, who was accused of using improper methods to force information out of an Iraqi detainee.

Following a military hearing, West was fined $5,000 over two months, according to West’s civillian attorney, Neal Puckett.

Why not sell opportunities to interrogate Ba’athists and al Qaeda for $5,000 a pop?

Does that include airfare?

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Can we call them enemies yet?

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Just when you thought the German “peace” movement couldn’t get much more hypocritical they take things to a whole new level. Last week the unbelievable lack of protest at the German government’s plutonium and arms deal with Communist China made it seem as the peace freaks had all rolled up into a big ball for a long winter hibernation.

Not so! The German TV news program “Panorama” uncovered some of the wonderful activities that particularly dedicated cadres of the German peace movement are currently engaged in. In the spirit of peace, a number of groups have started a fund-raising campaign entitled “10 Euros for the Iraqi Resistance”. The money will be provided to the Iraqi Patriotic Alliance (IPA) a group dedicated to carrying out attacks against US soldiers in Iraq in collaboration with Saddam loyalists. The common goal is to “liberate” the Iraqi people from the evil imperialist American occupiers. On their website these groups gush with enthusiasm about turning Iraq into another Vietnam for the USA.

Peace movement, Euro-style.

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UN-consistent

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IAEA director-general Mohamed ElBaradei says two things in the same interview which, taken together, are quite interesting:

We work on the assumption that Israel has nuclear capability. […]

But everyone assumes that Iran was making efforts to acquire nuclear weapons.

You are saying it is ‘assumed,’ but we do not work on the basis of assumptions. We work on the basis of facts, witnesses, and records. We do not take a leap of faith and jump to conclusions.

Consistency, UN style.

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