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POPSLetter From Kevin Tillman on Iraq War "Somehow American leadership, whose only credit is lying to its people and illegally invading a nation, has been allowed to steal the courage, virtue and honor of its soldiers on the ground. " SPOT ON!
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POPSIraqis use internet to survive war I really feel bad for the average people that are caught in the middle of this war. A war of government(s) and corporations - rather then of the common Iraqi. One can almost compare this to the US Civil War and gain an understanding of what it must have been like to be forced into fitting within - brother versus brother.
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POPS Dalai Lama: China causing 'cultural genocide' In WW2 their was genocide and it was by the country hosting the Olympics that year. Is there a parallel here with China who is not hosting this year - the genocide they are causing within their own region?
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POPSGaza militants say fired chemical-tipped warhead Lets remember back say 80 some years……Over the course of July and August 1914. The Austrian-Hungarian Empire (Todays Isreal) believed that the Slavic (Todays Hamas Group) ethnic group in its territories and in the break way republic of Serbia were inferior. Archduke Ferdinand (Israeli captured) goes down there and gets assassinated by Serbian Nationalists (By Palestinians). Austria-Hungary (Israel) basically demands Serbia (Hamas) to come to heel or it will invade them. Russia (Iran) being the ally to all the Slavic people comes to Serbia's (Hamas’s) aid. (Since Hamas is believed to have strong ties to Iran)
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POPS New airline restrictions may be here to stay Israel has the right way to do aiport security. It's quite simple - there is only 1 known group - muslim extremist - causing these problems. Simply put them and anyone associated with the in a database and if they intend to fly, they will go through special screening and not be allowed carry on bags. There is no reason to put everyone else through a painful process. Yes - some will say this is religous profiling or ethnic profiling, but until the terrorists MO changes - that is what should be done. "Rafi Ron, former head of security at Tel Aviv, Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, said screeners should focus more on finding suspicious people than on hunting for potential terrorist tools.
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POPSEndurance Meets Doubt in Iraq - Soldier's Stories “As a soldier, I am going to do whatever we got to do,” he said. “As a personal opinion, I don’t think we need to be in this city, period. How much money and how many soldiers is it going to take when these people don’t want our help? They just don’t. We don’t even know who we can trust.”
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POPSEpassport Photo: Create your passport photo online I am not sure if this would be valid for all countries, but it is an interesting way to potentially save money from having to go to these places that charge $10+USD for doing the photos. Check out the epassportphoto site.