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POPSIran & Saudis Just look at that photo - 'ah-I'm-almost-as-tall-as-you' and our 'friend', working together on solutions.
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POPSBill Clinton on Iraq "If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow by the knowledge that they can act with impunity, even in the face of a clear message from the United Nations Security Council and clear evidence of a weapons of mass destruction program." Bill Clinton, 1998
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POPSGold Star Families Secret Trip to Iraq “I’m here because I want to visit with the troops and let them know that it’s OK… it’s OK when they lose a friend… and to give ‘em a hug… and still let them know that we care about them, and that we support them 100%” Amazing how different people sound when you compare above to the rhetoric of the government officials/media that are suppose to represent them.
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POPSIBM Multilingual Automatic Speech-To-Speech Translator "Being frequent users of machine translation ourselves, we're fully aware of the difficulties present in its execution, but IBM seems to think they've got it worked out well enough for some real-life use in Iraq. Their "Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-Speech Translator," AKA Mastor combines speech recognition, machine translation, and text-to-speech technologies to create a common translation engine that is apparently independent of languages. The system develops translation patterns off of regular conversational use of the languages, and is purportedly as speedy as a human translator -- and provides a text read-out of the conversation to boot. DARPA has had similar tech in the works for a while, but now IBM's Mastor is apparently ready enough for actual use, since they're shipping 35 Mastor-equipped ruggedized laptops to Iraq as a trial run, and will consider even more depending on how these work out. "
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POPSCongress Restricts Iraq Spending "The U.S. Congress on Friday moved to block the Bush administration from building permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq or controlling the country's oil sector, as it approved $70 billion for funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan." So much for "it's all about oil" sentiments.
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POPSAnbar Clerics and Tribal Leaders want to Fight Terrorists "People are fed up with the acts of those criminals who take Islam as a cover for their crimes," he said. "The situation in the province is unbearable, the city is abandoned, most of the families have fled the city and all services are poor." Good for them, hopefully more will follow.
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POPS Iraq: Food worth dying for. In late July, a Sunni Arab suicide bomber blew up a minibus at a market entrance, killing 35 people. Three weeks earlier, an enormous truck bomb outside a row of Shiite- owned stores near the restaurant killed 62 people. But even bombings cannot stop the rotisserie chickens. Each day, more than 300 customers eat 250 of them, the staple of the restaurant's signature dish: chicken, okra, and rice.
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