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http://www.juancole.com/2010/10/on-juan-wi...eparatists.html They don't support attacks in Eurpe that is correct. The money is going to the front lines in the middle east.

further investigation suggests the army was imploding anyway Can you see the text through the bong smoke. Historians will process the information and articulate their narrative in a clear manner. There are already differing interpretations of this event. It is well documented that the army leaders were meeting regualarly witht the US high command asking what their role would be and how they could help.

I suggested Hughton shuld play on the right.

Turkey is already showing signs of not being so welcoming to Nato and is restricting flights of US warplanes, it also has growing anti-western sentiment. Egypt is in the grip of fundamentalist uprisings and dissent. Saudi Arabia will not be able to contain the growing forces of discontent against the cruel Wahabi dictaorship and at some point the Pakistani army and secret police will lose control faced wiht incerading and hietining internal fuandamentalism. The pieces on the board that seemed safe will suddenly start to look unstable and the backlash will come fuelled by the memories and sadness of a people who's identity we have turned from reletavism to fundamentalism. Quite stupidly we ourselves have given and keep giving massive clarion calls to the men of unreason. There isn't one mosque in the west that isn't sending money to fighters somewhere.

Disbanding the army was one of the greatest military mistakes in modern warfare. This is the common view of the semi-informed delinquent, but further investigation suggests the army was imploding anyway. Must try harder, cut out the bong hits. The whole idea in the beginning was to not get involved in battles in the city and to keep the people onside. To work with what remants of oraganisation and local intelligence that was left. Disbanding the army, just pissed off hundereds of thousands of men, who suddenly had no means of income and nothing left to contribute and they were also trained fighters. Iraq was and still is dotted with arms caches and many had stored weapons in hiding places. Paul Bremer in one fail swoop started a full on insurgency against his own forces. As I said one of the biggest milirary errors in modern warfare.

Worse than the death of 2Pac?

In all honesty this macro sifting of the details is now irrelevant. The West will be engaged in a Holy war for a 100 years. The invasion of Iraq and Afg in times to come will be seen as the greatest tragedy to befall the West.

Disbanding the army was one of the greatest military mistakes in modern warfare.

From August 9th. Read the CNN quote above from this week, where the administration have admitted there's no evidence to back up such claims The online leak of thousands of secret military documents from the war in Afghanistan by the website WikiLeaks did not disclose any sensitive intelligence sources or methods, the Department of Defense concluded. . . . The assessment, revealed in a letter from Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Michigan), comes after a thorough Pentagon review of the more than 70,000 documents posted to the controversial whistle-blower site in July. . . . The defense secretary said that the published documents do contain names of some cooperating Afghans, who could face reprisal by Taliban. But a senior NATO official in Kabul told CNN that there has not been a single case of Afghans needing protection or to be moved because of the leak. Yup.

Wikileaks is ace.

Kompany played more games his first season than he did last. 86 in total and all ready played 32 times for his country. Yeah so 2 seasons as a regular. I guess he really is "an experinced-experienced player". Every fucker has player for Belgium.

Jamie Redknapp: Kompany is an ecperienced, experienced player. (This is only the second season he's been a regular). Nasri: He seems to get better every game. (What another dozen games and he'll be Platini?). Jesus Christ. Oh yeah and Gullit: If you forget to follow your man (Barry), just block him (touches Redknapp's arm as if he's just revealed the contents of the dead sea scrolls). What in the box Ruud? Dear me.

Yup. Half these refs are scared of red nose. You see it so many times with ManU players.

Another Scholes 'special'. At least he got booked.

Then sit back and watch a mass exodus of the best players to Spain and Italy. In the overall scheme of things how much does that really matter? Plenty on here will remember the days before we did attract the best players. All that mattered was if your team was winning and where they were in the league. Has it changed that much now? If the same status quo remained the same without some of these top players would fans desert the game. Is it not still relative, does having the top stars matter that much? It would probably help Ingerlund (and Scotland etc) and a lot of the smaller clubs who got by developing players for the top clubs. If it brought back some sensibility, lower wages and ticket prices the average working man can really afford then I'd be all for it. Germany doesn't seem to be doing to bad on it. The Bundesliga as a whole is much healthier, with smaller sides (some run on a shoestring compared to the PL) in the top half of the table.

Bartons ability to ocassionally hit a searching pass makes him way more dangerous on the right than Routledge who rarely finds another player after beating his man. Clever move by CH and everyone must have had doubts about it at kick off. Tiote was massive all game.

Not sure about he wider implications as I haven't thought it through, but as a gesture it would be excellent. Pretty sure most players on 70k wouldn't mind 5% going to local football or summink. But maybe I'm a dreamer...

Then sit back and watch a mass exodus of the best players to Spain and Italy. Italian clubs are mostly bankcrupt and most spanish clubs are poor bar 3/4.

Highly recommend Imperrial Bedrooms. The dry observational style and the addled internal thoughts are quite something. It has a finality and hopelessness about it. It's not just casually cynical, its poetic in its it's (his) inability to connect. I guess it is modern surrealism in the vein of Age of Reason and Iron in the Soul. It's moving but leaves you cold. No character posses any of the qualities needed to help another. Extremely well written. Sounds a little bit like Ballard. But cleaner, more pure. More crystaline.

Highly recommend Imperrial Bedrooms. The dry observational style and the addled internal thoughts are quite something. It has a finality and hopelessness about it. It's not just casually cynical, its poetic in its it's (his) inability to connect. I guess it is modern surrealism in the vein of Age of Reason and Iron in the Soul. It's moving but leaves you cold. No character posses any of the qualities needed to help another. Extremely well written.

Thought Lunar Park was one of the worst books I've ever read, barring the first and final chapters, which were oddly brilliant. Liked his other stuff but haven't read Imperial Bedrooms - any good? Picked it up in the bookshop, found a chair and read it (It's quite slim). Very moving and tragic in the sense of being a viewer (with him) of Hollywood and its surrounds drift into meaningless sterility and faux releationships. He is there and not there, you are beside him. It is unsettling in its dislocated observations on the demise of Western man and the erosion of inter-relationships. It's uber post-modern and faintly needy. There is also a kind of horrific backstory going on that wafts in and out of your nostrils, sometimes you can feel his panick of feeling he is spinning into it. The others are there from Less Than Zero but older and more lost and more alienated by their lifestyles, the characters are on the edge of some kind of total tragedy, toral black out of consciousness...But noboudy can quite let go....

Petty convinced we'd win more home games if he dressed as a cross between Malcolm Allison and Jim Carrey's Mask.