I also find France's position logical. UN holds the same approach and it is desirable that as many countries as possible did. Although K. Annan warned in his speech to the Security Council and to the President in New York some 2 days ago that it is expected that the perpetrator of the war pays for the re-building of the country. But that the humanitarian aid will be strengthened and all will be done to aid the U.S. to revive and rebuild Iraq. It will be a long long process and after a few years original commitments tend to get forgotten. OxFam has by now only one de facto functional unit - the OxFam Canada who had a number of very successfull projects especially in Africa. Very little is hear about American OxFam, it seems it does not do much. Now that you mention it, I must check out what ever happened to them.
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I hope Bush does not allow France to participate in anything---.
i didn't understand that Bush OWNED Iraq is this an example of what a national CEO can do? will there be an IPO?
Poor Blatham! Gone quite mad! Well, it's understandable...
Ok, maybe I missed this on npr and the BBC, but napalm?
Napalm?
"Marine Cobra helicopter gunships firing Hellfire missiles swept in low from the south. Then the marine howitzers, with a range of 30 kilometres, opened a sustained barrage over the next eight hours. They were supported by US Navy aircraft which dropped 40,000 pounds of explosives and napalm, a US officer told the Herald."
Yikes, LittleK. What a horror. Here are a couple of paragraphs from the link you supplied:
Marine Cobra helicopter gunships firing Hellfire missiles swept in low from the south. Then the marine howitzers, with a range of 30 kilometres, opened a sustained barrage over the next eight hours. They were supported by US Navy aircraft which dropped 40,000 pounds of explosives and napalm, a US officer told the Herald.
A legal expert at the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva said the use of napalm or fuel air bombs was not illegal "per se" because the US was not a signatory to the 1980 weapons convention which prohibits and restricts certain weapons. "But the US has to apply the basic principles of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and take all precautions to protect civilians. In the case of napalm and fuel air bombs, these are special precautions because these are area weapons, not specific weapons," said Dominique Loye, the committee's adviser on weapons and IHL.
We Canadians shall not sit/stand/dance idly while some rapscallion derogates our architecture. I am beside myself (unfortunately allowing me to note that my nose is as large as my sister says).
Retract!
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Why can't you argue the issues, Perception? Why do you always have to resort to personal attack? It doesn't bolster your argument!
I learned on this forum the futility of trying to reason with someone who only uses one side of the brain such as yourself. But then the other side of your brain has been completely destroyed by your hatred of the president and his team.
Oh no! Tartarin's brain has been detroyed! Completely! Mine too I guess. Alas and alack.
I think it's the company we keep, LittleK!!
And then there's the road food, Blatham!
I can't retract, Blatham. My integrity is at stake... steak...
perc has a point, perhaps. Let's say hatred of the Bush administration has done damage to the right side of our brain. If we ask perc what his feelings on Clinton are, we might just discover a comparable, if mirror-image, area of damage.
Surely we are not using napalm. The report must be in error.
NIMH, happy to see you here.
Blatham - are you saying your nose is a work of architectural magnitude?
does "president and his team" translate to CEO and Board of Directors?
Bail yourself out with Arthur Erickson and cod's cheeks if you like.
Kara I'll hope with you it was in error. The report says it was dropped over a military installment.
Well, the left side of the brain controls rational thinking. THAT EXPLAINS IT ALL! We artistes, whether tutu-ed or covered in acrylics, carry the day.
LittleK -- Your report quoted a US military officer, didn't it?
