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Originally Posted by powerclown
I'm sorry you feel that way, martinguerre. The only sentiment I was try to convey was that I do feel sorrow for those killed or wounded in this conflict. I do make a distinction, though, between those struggling for a better Iraq, and those working against it.
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There is nothing wrong with starting a happy talk thread, but readers here should note that the "article"
featured here, is fresh from the blog of
Chrenkoff, filtered through the WSJ Opinion Journal, to raise it's standing. Here is the link to the blog where all of
Chrenkoff's material originates before it is dressed up for more mainstream distribution:
http://chrenkoff.blogspot.com/2005/0...q-part-28.html . I see nothing wrong with communicating "news" via blogs, but the right cannot have it both ways:
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http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/11811936.htm
Posted on Sat, Jun. 04, 2005
Test shows voter fraud is possible
Machines are vulnerable to manipulation
By Tony Bridges
DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER
But state officials in charge of overseeing elections pooh-poohed the test process and dismissed the group's report.
"Information on a blog site is not viable or credible," said Jenny Nash, a spokeswoman for the (Florida) Department of State.
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I also think that nothing should take our attention away from this:
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story...448680,00.html
Iraq war is blamed for starvation
Rory Carroll in Baghdad
Thursday March 31, 2005
The Guardian
Acute malnutrition among Iraqi children aged under five nearly doubled last year because of chaos caused by the US-led occupation, a United Nations expert said yesterday.
Jean Ziegler, the UN Human Rights Commission's special expert on the right to food, said more than a quarter of Iraqi children do not have enough to eat and 7.7% are acutely malnourished - a jump from 4% recorded in the immediate aftermath of the US-led invasion................
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