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POPSEuropeans Mull Sanctions Against Iran Europeans Mull Sanctions Against Iran. Britain and France are leading a push for new EU sanctions to punish Iran over its nuclear program. But while European nations increasingly fear a war in their backyard, the continent is divided over how to deal with the crisis. The United States raised the stakes this week with new sanctions targeting the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, which Washington accuses of supporting terrorism by backing Shiite militants in Iraq. The announcement raised the question of whether the European Union would follow suit. But few other European nations clamoring to support stepped-up EU sanctions. The divisions mirror those that split the continent over Iraq, though the fault lines have shifted.
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POPSAttack on Iran Chances? Slim to NONE, --<< Indeed, it's not even clear the vice president is an advocate of action, as opposed to tough talk, on Iran. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Admiral William Fallon, the head of Central Command for the Middle East, and probably Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice - all think military engagement with Iran is a recipe for disaster.>>--
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POPSUSA built on backbone of terrorism as defined by USA now It continues to be absolutely remarkable how a country built on revolution, using an insurgency to wage warfare against the sovereign legal government, can turn about and start calling the same in modern times, evil and terrorists. One man's terrorist is another man's hero or patriot. One declares war on a nation, not a concept or ideal. Something is gravely wrong with the direction of this United States of America. We are not holding to our constitution, we can just toss it out in the name of national security? Hog Wash! HOG WASH! What have we become? I don't want to look in the national mirror.
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POPSWhy America Will Survive George W. Bush Otto von Bismarck saw how American blunders led to American power and allegedly said that God has a special providence for drunks, fools, and the United States of America. Walter Russell Mead (of the Council on Foreign Relations) puts Bush's 8-year stint in the White House into proper perspective. America's foreign policy has been short-sighted and often self-defeating from the get-go, alternately collaborative, passive, and interventionist. And, yet, miraculously, we always come out ahead. With the unstoppable rise of a global capitalist economy, Mead makes the case that America, for all its past and current faults, will continue to be the inevitable leader of this new international buoyancy. Not even our latest mistakes (unprecedented though they may be) can derail such a powerful incentive that is the modern American world trade system. Which means, more than ever, we're literally all in this together.
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POPSAnother "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier" I have visited here and seen the Liberty Bell and other historical sites and buildings. Somehow I missed seeing this place. I found it interesting that they had to search for the remains buried here among other graves of paupers and travelers. They finally found a mass grave site that was from the Revolutionary War ears and retrieved a body to put in the tomb.
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POPS Please PETITION Your Senators To Reject LOST # Mandatory information-sharing will afford U.S. enemies data that could be used to facilitate attacks on this country (for example, detailed imagery of underwater access routes and off-shore hiding places); # Obligatory technology transfers will equip actual or potential adversaries with sensitive and militarily useful equipment and know-how (such as anti-submarine warfare technology). HELP US STOP THIS TERRIBLE TREATY! The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOST) is sneaking through the U.S. Senate toward ratification, yet it presents as great a threat to our self-government and our way of life as the immigration schemes our grassroots just defeated. Patriotic Americans across the country need to take action IMMEDIATELY. With elections coming up, Congress must be warned that quick action on LOST will further alienate the American people that are ALREADY upset about recent Congressional immigration and spending policy errors.
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POPSPodhoretz mad ramblings about Iran From the article: "Here is the reality. Iran has an economy the size of Finland's and an annual defense budget of around $4.8 billion. It has not invaded a country since the late 18th century. The United States has a GDP that is 68 times larger and defense expenditures that are 110 times greater. Israel and every Arab country (except Syria and Iraq) are quietly or actively allied against Iran. And yet we are to believe that Tehran is about to overturn the international system and replace it with an Islamo-fascist order? What planet are we on?"
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POPS Ahmadinejad Pushing Iran Into Future Trouble It could be a risky bet. Ahmadinejad's main vulnerability is domestic: rising criticism from a public angry over the country's poor economy and from politicians disillusioned by what they call his mismanagement. Even some conservatives have expressed fears Ahmadinejad is pushing Iran into future trouble over the nuclear issue Further sanctions, even unilateral ones from the U.S., could hurt the economy more by further isolating it from international finance—and Iranians were already expressing worries over the new measures. Ahmadinejad, who faces elections in 2009, knows "jobless and poor people will not vote for him if his policies bring them more difficulties," said Ahmad Bakhshayesh, a political science professor at Tehran's Azad University. But he believes "unilateral economic sanctions by Washington are not strong enough (to hurt Iran) due to Iran's widespread economic relations with the world."
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POPSInsiders view on IRAN War !!! "This would result in a dramatic increase in attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq, attacks by proxy forces like Hezbollah, and an unknown reaction from the wobbly states of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where millions admire Iran's resistance to the Great Satan. "As disastrous as Iraq has been," says Mann, "an attack on Iran could engulf AmHe repeated his firm belief that the White House had to draw up a road map with real solutions to the division of Jerusalem and the problem of refugees, something with final borders. That was the only remedy to the crisis in the Middle East.erica in a war with the entire Muslim world." "When Mann and Leverett went public with the inside story behind the impending disaster with Iran, the White House dismissed them. Then it imposed prior restraint on them, an extraordinary episode of government censorship. Finally, it threatened them. "Now they are afraid of the White House, and watching what they say. But still, they feel they have to speak out."
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POPSSAS raiders enter Iran to kill gunrunners An interesting term: "...ambushing arms smugglers". This may explain somethings from another news article describing attacks into Sadr City. "The military said "an estimated 49 criminals" were killed in three separate engagements during a raid targeting a suspected rogue Shiite militia leader specializing in kidnapping operations for which he sought funding from Iran."
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POPSHamas psychological warfare There is no officially declared war in the Middle East. There is no Geneva Convention. And, both sides of many conflicts are not playing by the rules of engagement. So, once again, the Hamas are spreading deception and lies about the fate of captured and kidnapped people.
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POPSWHAT IS SOCIALISM? (Collectivism)-1 --<<Bernard Baruch, Wall Street financier and key advisor in Frankliln Delano Roosevelt's New Deal and chairman of the War Industries Board during the First World War, stated the following in an August 1918 speech: "Every man's life is at the call of the nation and so must be every man's property. We are living today in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state". ( The New American magazine,"The One Party State", Oct. 4, 2004)
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POPSIran declares US Army, CIA "terrorists" On Wednesday, the Senate voted 76-22 in favor of a resolution urging the State Department to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization. While the proposal attracted overwhelming bipartisan support, a small group of Democrats said they feared labeling the state-sponsored organization a terrorist group could be interpreted as a congressional authorization of military force in Iran.
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POPSBush sets up the Iranian Powder Keg More: The Iraqi commander in charge of the southern part of the country, General Mohan al-Furayji, said he would not hesitate to call for British help if there was an emergency.