4/5     "Lawmakers: Afghan leader threatens to join Taliban"
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100405/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan
        Hmmm, first we proped up bin Laden to fight against the Soviets, and
        he joined the Al Qaida to go against us.  Next we proped up Karzai to
        fight the Al Qaida, and he's joining the Taliban to go against us.
        When will we stop propping up our own enemies?
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11/26   http://csua.org/u/k2n  (Washington Times)
        Islamic terrorists target Army base -- in Arizona
        "Fort officials changed security measures after sources warned that
        possibly 60 Afghan and Iraqi terrorists were to be smuggled into the
        U.S. through underground tunnels with high-powered weapons to attack
        the Arizona Army base, according to multiple confidential law
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10/8    Talking about fringe candidate... I always consider myself an ultra-
        left liberal, but I find Ron Paul's message *VERY* appealing.  That,
        along with the remarkable consistency he has over almost all issues.
        Have any of you guys even know this guy?
        \_ I heard that if you watch his video, seven days later you DIE!
           \_ I watched it 6.9998 days ago and I'
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10/2    More on Blackwater:
        http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/02/blackwater.afghan.crash
        \_ Blackwater USA: Giving all mercs a bad name!
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10/11   Holy shit, Bin-Ladin decided to strike a month later!
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061011/ts_nm/crash_plane_dc_1
        \_ New York Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle was apparently piloting the
           airplane and died in the crash.  Wow.  Who knew that Al-Qaeda had
           infiltrated the Yankees and Major League Baseball!?!
           \_ See?  Yet another failure of the Bush administration to indentify
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6/22    http://mediamatters.org/items/200606200008
        O'Reilly on his radio show, describing how he would stabilize Iraq:
        "President O'Reilly, curfew in Ramadi, 7 o'clock at night. You're on
        the street, you're dead. I shoot you right between the eyes. OK?
        That's how I'd run that country -- just like Saddam ran it. Saddam
        didn't have explosions. He didn't have bombers, did he? ...
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5/29    I have a feeling that anti-US sentiment is running strong.  I just
        don't see how a traffic accident can cause such:
        http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5026350.stm
        \_ America haters have always wanted to throw rocks at American
           soldiers. Now they have an excuse. My take is that America
           will never fully understand why foreigners hate America,
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2/6     Democrats, not Republicans, want to grow the Army to far bigger:
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060206/ap_on_go_pr_wh/budget_defense_6
        "His approach, which is opposed by many Democrats in Congress who
        believe the Army in particular is being stretched too thin and needs to
        get far bigger, ......"
        \_ I actually support the idea of bringing back the draft, although
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7/8     I'm having a tough time understanding why someone would want to plant
        a bomb in a train, bus, &c. to kill random ppl (I'm assuming that this
        was not an assassination). To me it seems like you could better spend
        you time taking out strategic targets (perhaps random people are
        strategic targets, and I just don't get it).
        Can someone recommend a book (or other src) that might explain the
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