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[toys for kids] ecochildsplay: Iraq Province Bans War Toys for Children: Should ...: War toys banned in Iraq Before we had a preschool/playgroup in our community, we used to take turns gathering in each other's homes for "mommy/daddy and me" socialization gatherings. On one occasion, a mother brought a bag full of toy .

[MY WP] ecochildsplay: Iraq Province Bans War Toys for Children: Should ...: ecochildsplay: Iraq Province Bans War Toys for Children: Should ”¦ Filed under: Games, General ”” Tags: -9658-160, 74a-expr, contributors, green, include-data, include-name, jennifer-lance, loop-values, natural, organic, province-bans, ...

[GlobalPost] Tensions high between Arabs and Kurds in Iraq: There are reports of Kurds being pressured to move into the disputed Kirkuk Province in an effort to further the assertion that it’s Kurdish territory. Along the northern edge of the Diyala Province, there have been several heated arguments that nearly escalated to violence as Iraqi and Kurdish forces jousted over who controlled certain areas.

[Flopping Aces] Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » When Handouts, Charity, and ...: Apparently, all those instances of American soldiers passing out toys and candy and school supplies to Afghan children might be doing some harm in counterinsurgency operations. Instead of goodwill, such handouts may be breeding resentment by shaming and embarrassing Afghan parents who aren’t able to provide such items for their children, themselves.

[Letters] Letters Blog | The Australian: The East Timorese people deserve respect and support Their infrastrusture was all but destryed We should be helping them rebuild by offering scholarships and helping them to become self sufficient energy wise by harnessing wind, water and wave technology in the same way as Portugal has been doing.Also while that is taking shape why not have bicycles and rickshaws repaired and shipped over and electric scooters that are powered up overnight by solar energy to enable low cost transport for more people?

[GlobalPost] Opinion: Slouching toward Baghdad | GlobalPost: In its first term, the Bush administration spent $58 million on programs to train Ukranian citizens in the art of popular uprisings — an alien concept for people who had been subservient citizens of a Soviet province for most the previous century.

[AlterNet.org] 'Enduring' Bases in Iraq: More Toys for the Pentagon's Sandbox ...: In a recent report for Harper's Magazine, "The Black Box, Inside Iraq's Oil Machine," Luke Mitchell describes traveling the southern Iraqi oil field of Rumaila with a petroleum engineer working for Foster Wheeler, a Houston engineering firm hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers "to oversee much of the oilfield reconstruction," and protected by private guards employed by the British security company Erinys.

[Cedric's Big Mix] "Iraq snapshot" (The Common Ills): Chaos and violence continue, another death by shower in Iraq, Robert Gates declares 'no change,' Cindy Sheehan continues calling for an end to the wars, at the Arab League meeting in Cairo tensions continue between Iraq and Syria, did the US government sign a written agreement with residents of Camp Ashraf in 2003, and more.

[Mocha Dad] Heading to Western Iraq to Visit Al Asad | Mocha Dad: On the way to the airport, we passed Suddam Hussein's unfinished “Victory of America Palace.” He was building this palace to commemorate his .Someone obviously placed the sign there before the war began.

[Baghdad Bureau] The Troop Debate: Iraqi Voices Across the Region - At War Blog ...: The New York Times’s award-winning team of correspondents, photographers, videographers and local interpreters provide insight ”” and try to answer your questions ”” about the combatants shaping events along political, military and religious faultlines, and the civilians caught in the middle.

[The Thunder Run] The Thunder Run: From the Front: 09/03/2009: Conservatives--and I mean with a capital "C"--sought political advantage from the war, did not properly explain it, and have since decided there is no such advantage. They now would rather take the fight to Mickey I.

[Military Review] Twelve Urgent Steps for the Advisor Mission in Afghanistan ...:  For instance, if an 82nd BCT deploys to Afghanistan, they should return to Afghanistan for their next deployment, rather than going to Iraq.  Sure, some guys will have transferred out, but minus a regimental system, I would think some kind of regional knowledge by unit (and if possible by individual too- keeping those individuals in the units that will rotate to the same place) is the best we can do.

[The China Blog] Less Carbon, More Lead - The China Blog - TIME.com: Nothing is more toxic than CCP, followed by the China tsunami flooding the world with its exported goons and thugs, then comes to fake food stuff, tainted baby formula, toxic toys, and pirated IPR”¦..lead is at the bottom of the importance list.

[blog.cagle.com - main] Better BS Needed | blog.cagle.com - main: The $800 billion for the TARP bailout plan last fall is on the Bush administration.Much of an equal amount for the Obama bailout has not been spent yet, but the bank and auto bailouts were loans, which will be paid back if successful (much of the bank bailout is already being returned so the top management can continue to receive their obscene salaries and bonuses.) The rest of what the Obama administration spent went to police, firemen, teachers, unemployment and state workers, to keep local governments from closing down.

[MoJo Blog Posts: kevin drum] The Pakistan Problem | Mother Jones: I'd say the Pakistanis have every right to be damn scared where this is leading, and have every right to fight against this. When, three, eight, fifteen years from now the US gets bored and finds some other shiny toy to play with, they'll leave behind a broken country that the Pakistani's still have to live in.

[Flopping Aces] Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Obama's 9/9/09 Address to Congress ...: Israel has openly said that they’re just waiting for the United States to realize that diplomacy has failed, and then they’re going to bomb Iran. Iran has said if that happens, they’ll retaliate against Israel by shooting missiles over American forces in Iraq and the Persian Gulf, and that Iran’s terrorist allies/proxies will attack the United States.

[Michael J. Totten] Michael J. Totten: The Shia Awakening: Bush gets bad marks because his bad decisions have immediate and ongoing effects. Pulling out won't have the same consequences because by the time the decision bites us in the ass, the politicians will be long gone or their votes will be ancient history.

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