Now books have trailers.
Nice reconstruction of ancient Greek lyre music, a
hymn to Apollo and a
hymn to the muse.
Senior US journalist makes
complete fool of himself in 38 seconds.
The UK Tories thought a Labour poster image of the Tory leader was such a great idea,
they adapted it.
About The Hurt Locker being concerned
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I was getting all excited about the poll, then I noticed it was an online survey, which puts it firmly in the "dubious results" category.
There is also the matter of picking your madness: one third of Democrats apparently believe Dubya knew about 9/11 in advance.
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As for not knowing: the possibility of keeping that sort of secret indefinitely is pretty remote.
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The Congressional testimony is not a good indication of motive for major acts of public policy. A company explains why the pipeline cannot be built in a situation where there is no widely recognised government and sets out the circumstances in which it would be built (which helps explain why it is not going ahead at that time). 3 years later a massive terrorist attack is launched on the US. The government of Afghanistan refuses to hand over the perpetrators, in fact makes clear it will defend them. Everyone regards that as a casus belli (which is why it is a NATO operation). There are some side benefits of the war, such as the pipeline, but the 1998 testimony does not come close to establishing that the pipeline was the motive for responding to the terror attack.
As for manufacturing a casus belli, Operation Northwoods did not go ahead while the Gulf of Tonkin was taking advantage of a situation ( ( ... )
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