[Deel 1021] Give me Liberty or give me Death

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,,Ik sta versteld van de verbazingwekkende snelheid waarmee de gedachte zich heeft verspreid dat de Bush-doctrine de test van Irak niet heeft weten te doorstaan,'’ schrijft Podhoretz. ,,Immers, Irak is bevrijd van een van de ergste tirannen van het Midden-Oosten; er zijn drie verkiezingen gehouden: er is een fatsoenlijke grondwet geschreven; er is een regering aangetreden; en er worden vrijheden genoten die voorheen onvoorstelbaar waren. In welke bizarre optelsom is de uitkomst van dit alles uiteindelijk een mislukking? En welke nog vreemdere logica schrijft voor dat die mislukking kan worden afgeleid uit het feit dat de krachten die tegen de democratisering zijn uit alle macht terugvechten?”

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Op zondag 17 september 2006 20:09 schreef Apropos het volgende:

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Die opgewektheid van jou.

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Op zondag 17 september 2006 20:07 schreef Monidique het volgende:

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. Het heeft iets aandoenlijks. Ik las het net in de papieren uitgave van de NRC en het was tenenkrommend.

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In welke bizarre optelsom is de uitkomst van dit alles uiteindelijk een mislukking?

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Sept 16 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq reported on Saturday, as of 1000 GMT:

BAGHDAD - Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and three wounded when a bomb exploded inside a car they approached that contained a body, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomb killed one civilian and wounded 22 when the attacker detonated his vehicle outside a well-fortified police station in southern Baghdad's Doura district, police said.

BAQUBA - A roadside bomb killed three policemen and wounded another when it blew up as a police patrol was passing in the restive town of Baquba, police said.

SAMARRA - Iraqi police said four members of the Albu Baz tribe were killed along with a gunman who attacked them on Friday after they clashed in the city of Samarra, police said. The Albu Baz tribe blamed al Qaeda militants for the attack.

KIRKUK - Iraqi police killed two insurgents after they repelled an attack by them on their checkpoint, just south of Kirkuk, police said. Two policemen were also wounded in the attack.

BAGHDAD - A Sunni member of Iraq's parliament escaped a bomb attack on his convoy unhurt as he travelled through western Baghdad, police said. Two of Mohammed al-Dani's guards were lightly wounded in the attack.

MOSUL - Three policemen were wounded when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in the northern city of Mosul, police said.

RAMADI - A suicide car bomb targeting a U.S. military patrol killed four civilians and wounded eight, police said.

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Police said Saturday they had recovered 48 bodies from across Baghdad, bringing the toll of clandestine killings since Monday to at least 180 people - most of them shot execution-style.

Almost all the bodies found during a 24-hour period in different neighborhoods were those of young men who had been tortured, blindfolded and handcuffed before being shot several times, said Capt. Mohammed Hanoon of the Interior Ministry.

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In de video is een zwaard te zien, dat wordt opgeheven naar een kruis.

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Op zondag 17 september 2006 20:23 schreef Monidique het volgende:
O ja, de échte Bush-doctrine.

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The daughter of a prominent neoconservative commentator and a recent graduate from an evangelical university for home-schooled children were tapped to manage Iraq's $13 billion budget, even though they didn't have a background in accounting.

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Op zondag 17 september 2006 20:37 schreef Apropos het volgende:

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Of in je nieuwe plaatje.

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Op zondag 17 september 2006 20:37 schreef Rock_de_Braziliaan het volgende:
nou dat is top dus....

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Op zondag 17 september 2006 20:39 schreef Monidique het volgende:

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¿Que?

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Op zondag 17 september 2006 20:30 schreef pberends het volgende:

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Misschien dat die doedelzakken nog een beter budgetair beleid zouden houden dan Bush zelf.

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Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate has reached a new record high of more than 1,200 percent in August despite the conversion to a new currency designed to halt the upwards spiral.

"The year-on-year rate of inflation in August 2006 was 1,204.6 percent gaining 211 percentage points on the July rate of 993.6 percent," Moffat Nyoni -- the acting director of the central statistics office -- told a news conference on Friday.

"This means a bundle of goods that cost 100 Zimbabwe dollars (40 US cents) in August 2005 would on average cost 1,304.60 in August 2006."

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Op zondag 17 september 2006 21:15 schreef Apropos het volgende:

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Dat Iran-nummer van TIME is best interessant, bedankt.