some people say

WART
* "Looking ahead, Sgt. Maj. Gallant believes the suicide attack may be the watershed event in the unraveling of the U.S. war effort in Iraq. "I am afraid 2005 is even going to be worse than 2004," he says." great. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/12/23/mosul/

* "Just 32 per cent of the community believe John Howard's decision to send troops into Iraq was justified" go figger. and thats with murdochmedia, and not a single dead ozgrunt. i wish that many peeps were of a similar disposition 2 fukking years ago. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11789154%255E601,00.html

* " Iran's air force has been ordered to shoot down any unknown or suspicious flying objects in Iran's airspace, an air force spokesman said yesterday, amid state-media reports of sightings of flying objects near Iran's nuclear installations." http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/518911.html

* is dis-sent when u refuse to get sent to iraq?

* "The US is facing increasingly deadly attacks in Iraq because, as in the Vietnam War, it failed to honestly assess facts on the ground and is living in "fantasy land", a report says.
The report, prepared by Anthony Cordesman, senior fellow of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, said Administration spokesmen and women had appeared to live "in a fantasy land" when giving accounts of events in Iraq." zarq did it. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article7549.htm

* "Three weeks before the deadly attack on a U.S. base in Mosul, commanders at the base had a warning that insurgents were planning a "Beirut"-type attack on U.S. forces in northern Iraq, ABC News has learned. The warning prompted them to take additional unspecified security measures on the base." sweet. nice to see thats what *increased* security looks like. cwly? http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=351870&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

* of course, the 'beirut' story sounds like complete fiction - go read. im starting to think it actually was a frag. or at least the official story is sounding increasingly unreasonable.

* "Hopefully, Hagel said, the nation can avoid reinstituting compulsory military service." http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2004/12/21/local/doc41c79eaabbbb4005447499.txt

* "Meanwhile, Nada claims that the number of casualties from the Mosul attack is far higher than what was admitted by the US, 22 people. "In the [dining tent] where the attack took place, there were at least 500 US soldiers. The number of casualties given by the occupation forces always excludes private contractors [non-official soldiers/unregistered soldiers-agents]. We expect the number [is] a lot higher than the announced one."" http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FL25Ak01.html

* wot will the jihadmin do if jan6 doesnt go to plan?

OTHER
* theres some suggestion that the earthquake was triggered by our own lil earthquake in taz. yay taz. is there anyone we know who is holidaying 'there'?

* "A Pandemic Influenza Plan has been drawn up and circulated to all health boards and NHS trusts under the auspices of the Cabinet Office’s Civil Contingencies Group on Pandemic Planning. It states: “concerns about pandemic influenza are at an all-time high”, and suggests that “a minimum of 25% of the population will become ill” and “10% to 35% of the workforce may be absent from work.”" http://www.sundayherald.com/46866

* drphil on mtp 'overindulgence is the most insidious form of child abuse known to man' - can all these fucking people die. soon. painfully.

* "When so many basic notions, like security, war, enemy, network, chatter, threat, totalitarian, are infected with new and dubious meanings, there's a temptation to reach continually for quotation marks as if they were pairs of rubber gloves." ftr - i usually forgo the quotemarks - more out of typing simplicity than anything else. and praps reading simplicity. and to disguise my pretensions, which otherwise remain largely invisible... http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17676

* santa. dog. alqaeda. zark. democracy.

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