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[Bismillah]

From "laura in brooklyn" at Lenin's Tomb:<br><br>"Let's get something straight here. Ever since the UN passed the zionism=racism resolution (unfortunately revoked due to US pressure), Israel has had it in for the UN, period. Israel has not only been at war with Palestinians, Muslims, Arabs, Lebanese, Jewish dissidents et al., but also very definitely the UN. Over the years Israel has repeatedly attacked UN compounds, refugee camps, medical facilities, aid workers, delivery vehicles, ambulances, etc., etc., etc. This recent attack on the UN is nothing new, it is typical and predictable, it is POLICY."<br><br>laura in brooklyn | 26 Jul, 22:47 | # <br> <p></p><i></i>

[greencrow0]

Kofi should have an investigation and, based upon the findings...if Israel did deliberately, or negligently bomb the UN observation post, they should be kicked out of the UN by a General Assembly vote.<br><br>That would teach them, and everyone else so inclined a good lesson. There is no other recource...otherwise the UN is finished....credibility-wise.<br><br>GC <p></p><i></i>

[Et in Arcadia ego]

Oh man, this one's delicious..This woman is definately hating life right now:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1219325,00.html">www.time.com/time/world/a...25,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Condi in Diplomatic Disneyland</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em><br>Viewpoint: The Secretary of State tells the Lebanese that the blood they're seeing represents the birth of a <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>brave new order</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->. She's convincing nobody</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br> Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice faced a thankless, all but impossible task in trying to sell the Arab world on the U.S. policy of delaying a cease-fire so that the Israeli military can continue its anti-Hizballah campaign. But her case was hardly helped when she explained that the violence that has already killed more than 400 Lebanese and turned more than a half million into refugees represents the "birth pangs of a new Middle East." Phrases like that — and her rejection of the call for an immediate cease-fire on the grounds that "whatever we do, we have to be certain that we're pushing forward to the new Middle East, not going back to the old Middle East" — carry a revolutionary ring that scares the hell out of America's allies in the region. It was revolutionaries like Lenin and Mao, after all, who rationalized violence and suffering as the wages of progress, in the way a doctor might rationalize surgery — painful, bloody, even risking the life of the patient, but ultimately necessary. Social engineering is not surgery, however, and its victims find little comfort in the homilies of its authors.<br><br>Arab leaders, moreover, have learned to be suspicious of Rice's revolutionary ambitions — just a year ago, she spoke of spreading "creative chaos" in the region. Iraq, after all, is Exhibit A of the Bush Administration's "New Middle East," and it's a bloody mess that is growing worse by the day. Now, for Act 2, the Arabs are being told to sit quietly while Israel tears Lebanon apart, after months of watching it slowly throttle Gaza through a U.S.-backed economic blockade, and then bomb it for weeks on end. Hardly surprising that the Arabs — from the U.S.-backed autocrats to the beleaguered liberal democrats and the rising Islamists — see little to cheer in the Bush Administration's "new Middle East."<br>________________________________<br><br>Looks like the media's growing a sack for once. I wonder how long it's gonna last. <p>____________________<br>Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night.</p><i></i>

[Et in Arcadia ego]

When the rabbit crys out the fox comes a running, but it ain't to help..<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/Condi2.htm">www.insightmag.com/Media/...Condi2.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><br>Dump Condi: Foreign policy conservatives charge State Dept. has hijacked Bush agenda</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Conservative national security allies of President Bush are in revolt against Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, saying that she is incompetent and has reversed the administration’s national security and foreign policy agenda. <br><br>The conservatives, who include Newt Gingrich, Richard Perle and leading current and former members of the Pentagon and National Security Council, have urged the president to transfer Miss Rice out of the State Department and to an advisory role. They said Miss Rice, stemming from her lack of understanding of the Middle East, has misled the president on Iran and the Arab-Israeli conflict. <br><br>"The president has yet to understand that people make policy and not the other way around," a senior national security policy analyst said. "Unlike [former Secretary of State Colin] Powell, Condi is loyal to the president. She is just incompetent on most foreign policy issues." <br><br>The criticism of Miss Rice has been intense and comes from a range of Republican loyalists, including current and former aides in the Defense Department and the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. They have warned that Iran has been exploiting Miss Rice's inexperience and incompetence to accelerate its nuclear weapons program. They expect a collapse of her policy over the next few months. <br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>edit: Now this is interesting(from the same article):</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>"The critics said Miss Rice has adopted the approach of Mr. Burns and the State Department bureaucracy that most—if not all—<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>problems in the Middle East can be eased by applying pressure on Israel.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> They said even as Hezbollah was raining rockets on Israeli cities and communities, Miss Rice was on the phone nearly every day demanding that the Israeli government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert exercise restraint. <br><br>"Rice attempted to increase pressure on Israel to stand down and to demonstrate restraint," said Stephen Clemons, director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>"The rumor is that she was told flatly by the prime minister's office to back off." </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->" <p>____________________<br>Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night.</p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=etinarcadiaego@rigorousintuition>et in Arcadia ego</A>  <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://www.sickle666.com/images/Arcadia.jpg" BORDER=0> at: 7/26/06 11:00 pm<br></i>

[Mentalgongfu]

This ad at Yahoo! caught my attention<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://us.a2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/a/ya/yahoo_news/072406_MIP1_180x150_RBA_bos1.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <p></p><i></i>

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

Good post, Prof Pan. Hope you saw this coming...<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.rationalrevolution.net/images/bon.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <p></p><i></i>