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The media can report what ever it wants, and just because some key media types did not get to see the death and destruction that sells papers does not mean it did not happen. As a guy that was there and took part in the fighting i can say with conviction that there was plenty of death. Those sights and smell's still haunt many of those that took part, and we still re live that most night's. to imply there are a work of fiction is just wrong. I will say that there was journalist there during the operation, but i personal did not see any of them, unless we went to the rear, and if tim wanted to see blood stains and bodies perhaps he should have followed our section thru our journey from compound to compound... So what you're saying is that reports from soldiers on the ground indicate that the presence of journalists within 1500 meters of flying bullets may be a gross exaggeration.

Does that mean that all projections are not scientific? No, means that all projections are hypothetical and entirely dependent upon input. That means that there is a great deal of money at stake, and an entire industry built up around GW.

Ah, don't mind sweal. He just needs to yap about something in every thread.

He's clearly faking it.

Go away. You're spamming.

So far I've never seen any independent confirmation of the numbers NATO is talking about. No, and it'll be absolutely impossible to get any either, so you're safe in your beliefs. What are you expecting, a forensic audit (so to speak) after each battle by an independent accounting firm? Yeah, right. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/stor...70704/20070704/ Here's a great piece of spin...so typical. It starts out with "Time for a strategic re-think in Afghanistan?", spends the next 2 pages showing how everyone who knows anything thinks we should stay the course, moves on to the next section, entitled "NATO's Losing Battle", claiming that "Multiple deaths always bring the mission into question," then proceeds to dig up some obscure "analyst" who thinks we shouldn't be there as warfighters and should instead be there as a stabilizing force. The title and subtitle are misleading as hell, are in virtual opposition to what the articles actually say, and are there only to make news. The media isn't reporting what is happening with any degree of objectivity at all. They are, for reasons beknownst only to themselves but probably involving ratings, painting the mission as a writeoff even though to all appearances it is succeeding wildly in subduing the Taliban.

I don't believe that and a lot of people don't believe that. http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=12039 Well, you and Tim Albone don't believe it anyway, but I don't think that speaks for anyone else.

Your's will. Down the road in 10 years or so you'll start to have doubts when things are not spontaneously combusting just in time to be doused by Tsunamis. 20 years you'll notice that pretty much nothing has changed and no one has been talking about it for about 15 years or so...30 years and you'll be feeling foolish or will have moved on to the next big scare...

You must be new. These have already been exposed, trashed, laughed at, and set out to sea. "Doomed?" Is this the new millenium "nuclear holocaust" thingy for the postadolescents of this generation?

Thanks. NP

Laugh all you want, heathen witch, but it's a well known fact that milk haters float and innocent milk lovers sink, so be warned. The Milquistion knows all, and in case it doesn't there's always the ordeal...

Before it gets to that point the government will be pressured into halting immigration in it's tracks...something it should have done long ago. The attack would have to be huge and the death toll fantastic in order to turn Canadians into pogroming maniacs.

What is particularly ludicrous is his claim that the aneurism was brought on by getting a deportation order in the first place. What rot. Thumbs down.

NATO gives large body count numbers themselves with little or no verification. They just say something like 60 Taliban dead. Body counts were the bane of the Vietnam War in terms of accuracy. Nato doesn't give bodycounts unless they are 100% verified, and even then they tend to avoid giving them.

Not even established European governments in otherwise stable and relatively prosperous countries can figure out what to do. What's Algeria gonna do? In all likelihood, the bloodbath of conflict caused by Islamist organizations in Africa is only beginning. Algeria is not constrained by the "civility" that constrains Europe at this point. That government will handle it just fine and far more effectively than any state in the west could at this point.

It's rising on two levels, one for purely safety reasons and the other social.

I don't think so. This is a homophobic remark---> "Fags are limp wristed freaks who shame manhood." It's the type of thing I make a point of saying as much as possible in order to convey my disgust, and also because I refuse to bow under to politically correct Nazis who would like to force me to to bow under to right-think. I don't think Sulaco did anything more than make an observation.

Yup Yup. I'm certainly not going to contribute to submerging my Caucasian genes, and I happen to like my daughter's blonde hair. So solly if it offends you...

Interesting post that just about sums up the way you make your arguments. Hey, you're the one who posted that childish video based on logic 101.

Exceptionally good article/analysis of Muslims in Britain. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commen...omment-opinions

Researchers had already identified four common genetic variants, called hapologroups A, B, C, and D, in the mitocondrial DNA (mtDNA) of living Native Americans ("Science," 4 October 1996, p. 31). These haplogroups turned up in various Asian populations, lending genetic support for the leading theory that Native Americans descended primarily from these peoples. But researchers also found a handful of other less common variants, one of which was later identified as X. Haplogroup X was different. It was spotted by Torroni in a small number of European populations. So the Emory group set out to explore the marker's source. They analyzed blood samples from Native American, European, and Asian populations and reviewed published studies. "We fully expected to find it in Asia," like the other four Native American markers, says Brown. To their surprise, however, haplogroup X was only confirmed in the genes of a smattering of living people in Europe and Asia Minor, including Italians, Finns, and certain Israelis. The team's review of published mtDNA sequences suggests that it may also be in Turks, Bulgarians, and Spaniards. But Brown's search has yet to find haplogroup X in any Asian population. "It's not in Tibet, Mongolia, Southeast Asia, or Northeast Asia," Schurr told the meeting. "The only time you pick it up is when you move west into Eurasia." Researchers are continuing to check for the marker in Asia, but if it never appears there, "then we have a big gap to explain," says Schurr. It's possible that the source X population began in Asia and then spread to both the Americas and Europe, but left no descendants in Asia. It may be somewhat more likely, however, "that a small Caucasian band with females migrated from Europe right across Asia and into North America," says Brown. This group might have left no genetic traces of the journey in Asia because of its small size, or because its Asian descendants went extinct - "which is not unlikely," says Schurr, given the high turnover rate of different peoples. Physical anthropologists say that this connection between Eurasia and early Americans may explain the puzzling features they see in the remains of some of the earliest Americans, such as the 9300-year-old Kennewick Man and his contemporary, the Spirit Cave Mummy from Nevada ("Science," 10 April, p. 191). The Spirit Cave skeleton, for example, "doesn't look like anyone from any modern human population," says Jantz, but rather has a mix of features, such as a long, narrow skull and moderately high but not widely flaring cheekbones. He and others think these features may reflect a more "generalized" human stock that spread across Europe and Asia and into North America more than 10,000 years ago. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/280/5363/520

How simplistic. What do you think the world is...one country one vote? Is that what you see as fair? Christ, Israel would be in the sea fer shur, and the west would be raped, bludgeoned and left to expire. Yeah, that sounds real fair. And we see how well countries "voting on an issue" works in Rwanda and darfur, don't we? Balance of power politics produced WWs I and II, the Cold War and any number of proxy wars to make up for the big one being avoided. So far the unipolar world has produced...well...not really very much in the way of major war...

It's the Black Hand I tell you!

:lol: Next?

Looks more like you actually... True..I am incredibly handsome.... Photographs of a facial reconstruction showed a middle-aged man who looked more like a "European accountant than a Paleo-Indian hunter". Indeed. Accountant, huh? Do you have a spear head in your ass too?