Mosaic News – 12/17/08: World News From The Middle East
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“Shoe-Tossing Journalist Held in an Undisclosed Location,” Al Jazeera TV, Qatar
“Arab Countries Voice Concern Over Iran’s Nuclear Program,” D…
disgrace, where are all the international rights watchdogs, where are the institutions. They are all complicit and corrupt, starting with amnesty ending with the cross, the HR watch and the like. they are all silent because have been coopted and are hypocrites.
November 8, 2009 3:50 pm | #1to bad none of the shoes landed
November 8, 2009 4:04 pm | #2The Iraqi people are the victims, and the international corporations are more interested in profit than anything else. No power, No water what the fck has improved, how can you expect a widow who has lost her husband, children and house to sit down and hope the murderers of her entire family come to bring freedom. One must be an idiot , wake tf up.
November 8, 2009 4:58 pm | #3You’ll notice the US had to starve Iraq for ten years with boycotts and sanctions before they dared invade. They got fought to a standstill in Korea, got beat in Vietnam, and used proxy armies in Central America. Now, they don’t go anywhere if they think they might get hurt.
November 8, 2009 5:46 pm | #4Canada did not have the logistics to get 250 soldiers to Afghanistan when the war started. You can go anywhere period so what you got for that?
November 8, 2009 5:55 pm | #5Canada has has a population 1/10th the that of the US. Do the math: what size army do you think we can raise on such a small tax base? Yet we have a lrger land mass to defend. Since the Ogdensburg Agreement of 1940, Canada has integrated our armed forces with those of the US and they are at the disposal of the US head of state. Despite our refusal to declare war on Iraq, we have more forces in Iraq than do any of the other members of the so-called “Coalition of the Willing”.
November 8, 2009 6:22 pm | #6Canada provides specialized support for the American forces, such as the radar stations known as the DEW Line that spied on the Soviets from the 1950s on. Also, we played a minor role in training the Rangers – the guys who rounded up Vietnamese civillians for death by torture in Operation Phoenix. 160,000 people, mostly women and children, died in those camps.We don’t have a big enough army to defend ourselves against the Danes, should they decide to invade over the Hans Island issue.
November 8, 2009 6:26 pm | #7