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Depends on how you define "Middle East". There are different answers based on that definition. For instance, oil producing states would exclude Somalia and Ethiopia/Eritrea and possible Chad, but if you do it by religion, those are all included.
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Jazz....that is the most sweeping and far fetched definition of the Middle East I have ever seen. If you "go by religion", would you also include Indonesia, the largest muslim country in the world (it has small oil reserves as well), in the "Middle East"?
By geo-political standards, you can include Egypt and Libya, but by any standards, the African nations of Algeria, Sudan, Chad, Ethiopia/Eritrea, Somalia have absolutely nothing to do with "Middle East" warfare and/or politics.
IMO, characterizations like that just further make the case for MM's observation about "painting the middle east, arabs, muslims, etc. (groups that cannot easily be "grouped") with broad strokes of 1st world arrogance and indifference."
But back to the more important topic:
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In other news, two cosponsors just signed Kucinich's impeachment bill. They are Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL). Schakowsky is a deputy whip and senior member of the House congressional leadership.
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A small step but still DOA.
John Conyers' impeachment bill in 2005 had 38 co-sponsors and was focused on other equally, if not more important issues, like torture, spying on Americans, using govt resources to retaliate against critics, etc....
Creating a select committee to investigate the Administration's intent to go to war before congressional authorization, manipulation of pre-war intelligence, encouraging and countenancing torture, retaliating against critics, and to make recommendations regarding grounds for possible impeachment.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquer...9:h.res.00635:
Conyers, as chair of the Judiciary Committee, would have to give the Kucinich bill at least a cursory acknowledgement for it to get on the committee's calendar. He hasnt and there are no indications he will....nor is he considering re-introducing his own bill.