THE US, THE UN AND THE IRAQIS THEMSELVES, V. 7.0

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today that Iran must live up to its international obligations to halt its nuclear program or the next steps are in the offing. "And I think everybody understands what the 'next steps' mean," Rice told reporters after a meeting with NATO foreign ministers and European Union officials. In his state of the union address, President Bush singled out Iran as "the world's primary state sponsor of terror -- pursuing nuclear weapons."

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Decades from now this speech will still be looked at as visionary and for the ages.

Pass that pipe, brotha! I need some of whatever you're smoking.

Cycloptichorn

What medication do I need to take to be able to make myself believe, like you, that we need to go to war to spread peace? That Bush will be remembered as a 'visionary' and not a crook? It must be pretty potent...

Cycloptichorn

Amazingly, I haven't seen this one discussed:

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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today that Iran must live up to its international obligations to halt its nuclear program or the next steps are in the offing. "And I think everybody understands what the 'next steps' mean," Rice told reporters after a meeting with NATO foreign ministers and European Union officials. In his state of the union address, President Bush singled out Iran as "the world's primary state sponsor of terror -- pursuing nuclear weapons."

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Yeah, 'diplomacy' in action.

Cycloptichorn

does anyone have information on whether the Kurds are more likely to be Kurdish first, or Religious first, when it comes to the upcoming power struggle for government? Is there a seperation between the two?

What medication do I need to take to be able to make myself believe, like you, that we need to go to war to spread peace? That Bush will be remembered as a 'visionary' and not a crook? It must be pretty potent...Cycloptichorn

The Elections

Sounds like Florida: Iraqi officials Wednesday delayed the announcement of final results from landmark national elections because they said the election commission must recount votes from about 300 ballot boxes.

Final results from the Jan. 30 balloting were to be announced Thursday. But spokesman Farid Ayar said the deadline would slip due to the need for a recount.

"We don't know when this will finish," he said. "This will lead to a little postponement in announcing the results."

Ayar would not say where the 300 ballot boxes came from.

I recommend enough heavily caffeinated coffee to keep you awake while you carefully read an accurate account of the history of the 20th century.

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I recommend enough heavily caffeinated coffee to keep you awake while you carefully read an accurate account of the history of the 20th century.

Which points, specifically, are you referring to? Cycloptichorn

We want Iraq to be a democracy of the Iraqi's own design.

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We want Iraq to be a democracy of the Iraqi's own design.

There are many Iraqis from every party who oppose us for this very reason, Ican: because our continued presence and meddling ensures that this simply will not happen. Cycloptichorn

We will be delighted to oblige. The sooner the better.

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We will be delighted to oblige. The sooner the better.

yeah I'm sure we will and yet I hear no mention of fixing what we broke when we got there. Like water/elect/sewer/fuel etc etc etc.

Then and only then do they want us to scoot. We will be delighted to oblige. The sooner the better.

yeppers, I sure am, reading today about the minimum 7 hour wait to get fuel in their truck/car, the usual 2 hours per day of elect in their homes/businesses and trucked in water rationed by the litre. But hey, I only read the liberal press so how would I know?