>>>There is no need to us to rebuild our diplomatic relations with the rest of the world. The only countries we are having problems with are France, Germany, and Russia. Watch how quickly those problems are resolved once we win the war.
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>>You wish.
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>Going to war without the French is like going hunting without an accordian.

Deja vu, and the French will love you for that. The "you wish" was actually related to the list... you pretty much forgot most of the rest of the world, not about the speed of problems being solved.

>>It just depends who's a reliable source for you: a Newsweek columnist, or a member of War College (I never thought there'd be such an institution... live and learn).
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>I have seen your reliable sources, like Ted Rall:
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>http://brian.carnell.com/articles/2002/09/000029.html
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>Rall casts the article as claiming that Chamberlain met with the Petroleum Minister to talk about reviving the Unocal pipeline project, whereas the Frontier Post article is quite clear that this was a general meeting about petroleum and coal-related issues where the Pakistani Petroleum Minister raised the issue of the pipeline and apparently had to brief Chamberlain on the details of that proposal. Reading between the lines, Chamberlain appears to have been noncommittal (and for good reason -- the pipeline is a nonstart for business reasons even with the Taliban out of the way).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1984459.stm - and BBC is just mildly critical, most of the time they actually approve of what's being done.

>>Anyway, thanks for the link to WhatReallyHappened... if such a site didn't exist, it should have been invented.
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>I think the word invented is especially applicable here.

Yes, someone had to invent a place where the links to all the UPI, BBC, Boston Independent, Sky etc articles can be found in one place. The guy writes only about 1% of what you see on the site. The other 99% are links to what's published elsewhere.