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French Riots – Steyn Stupidity | Level Heads | Rabid LFGers

As the whole world knows by now, France has been buffeted by nightly riots American coverage began with one of the most stupid editorials I have ever seen. Mark Steyn suggested that what was happening in the Parisian suburbs was akin to war and After four somnolent years, it turns out finally that there really is an explosive ”Arab street,” but it’s in Clichy-sous-Bois…For half a decade, French Arabs have been carrying on a low-level intifada against synagogues, kosher butchers, Jewish schools, etc….Unlike America’s Europhiles, France’s Arab street correctly identified Chirac’s opposition to the Iraq war for what it was: a sign of weakness.

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Worst American President Ever

The Carpetbagger Report » Blog Archive » Move over James Buchanan: Time to declare Bush worst…president…ever?: Sorry guys, you are giving Bush too much credit here as the president…. Having bent the rules of civilised discourse and political behaviour so far, there really isn’t a safety net underneath them anymore.They have made enough enemies (Paul O’Neill, Colin Powell, Joe Wilson, Lawrence Wilkerson, John McCain – to name just a few) on their own team that they are in real danger right now.

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Reexamining 9/11

To anyone who has lived in the world and followed world history, the whole event has a false aura to it…. There are any number of paranoid and weird websites which talk about no plane flying into the Pentagon, kidnapped citizens, etc…

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Grand Inquisitor Cheney

President Bush’s Walkabout – New York Times: The place to begin is with Dick Cheney, the dark force behind many of the administration’s most disastrous policies, like the Iraq invasion and the stubborn resistance to energy conservation…. This is truly a remarkable set of priorities: his former chief aide was indicted, Mr. Cheney’s back is against the wall, and he’s declared war on the Geneva Conventions.

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Price of Imperialism

Informed Comment: former Assistant Secretary of Commerce Linda Bilmes has estimated the cost of five years of the Iraq war at 1 trillion and 372 billion dollars; is the next five years Mr. Krepinevich estimates for his strategy likely to be much cheaper?… Neither do I.Meanwhile, as he points out, not just Arabs or just Muslims but peoples all over the world have come to dislike and fear America and “Indeed, citizens in Canada, France, Germany the Netherlands, Russia, Spain and the United Kingdom now hold more favorable views of China than of the United States.”

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Implications

How to say someone is a murderer without saying it: Abramoff is under investigation by a grand jury in Guam for illegal contracts and money laundering and another grand jury in Fort Lauderdale, Fla…. Abramoff’s business partner Adam Kidan made payments from company funds of $30,000 to one of the killers’ daughters, who performed no services for the company, and $115,000 to a firm the hit man owned.

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