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If you, gentlemen, really want “to see US politics from another angle”, compare it with politics of present-day totalitarian regimes in Central Asia, for instance. And you’ll realize that there are practically no differences for our “democratic” state and e.g. authoritarian government in Turkmenistan. It’s common knowledge that Turkmen authorities abridge liberty of speech, freedom of the press, exercising control over mass and I-net. They bow down, imposing restrictions on freedom of association and assembly, in order to curtail political activity of non-governmental organizations, including groups of religious minorities. Nijazov does it with the aim of exercising control over latitude...

<p>A conference at the Hotel John Marshall in Richmond offered a critical review of the 16th president as a local nonprofit group is preparing to unveil on April 5 a life-size, bronze statue of Lincoln and his young son, Tad.</p>

Fox subtite just announces that the "Shock and Awe" has begun!

Just broke on Fox News....Iraqi Foreign Minister:" Bush has turned America into a joke...they are the world's #1 War Monger"..."Saddam not going any where"

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Kurdish leader predicted Friday the quick collapse of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's government if war comes. He said 70,000 Kurds were prepared to fight alongside U.S. troops. Barhim Salih, prime minister of the Kurdistan regional government, said the Iraqi army and even some of Saddam's Republican Guard would quit in what he predicted would be a short war. Salih told reporters at the Council on Foreign Relations, a private research group, that Saddam had booby-trapped Iraqi oil fields in Kirkuk and probably elsewhere and would have them blown up as he sought refuge outside the country....

00:47 2003-03-06 Thousands of Russians volunteer to defend Iraq Around ten thousand Russian citizens have applied for entry visas into Iraq to defend this country against the planned aggression by the warmongering USA and UK, according to the Iraqi Embassy in Moscow. Iraqi Ambassador to Moscow, Abbas Khalaf, declared last week that the Embassy had received around 3,500 requests, a number which has multiplied in the last few days, according to sources in the same Embassy. The requests come from young males, some with combat experience, who describe themselves as “volunteers” who are willing to defend Iraq against the illegal...

Evil Ravens-Sorties Baghdad, Mar. 9, Ina The evil warplanes of the U.S. and Britain launched on Friday and Saturday 225 armed sorties targeting civil and service facilities, aided by AWACS and e-2c planes from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. a spokesman for the air defence command told Ina that the enemy ravens flew over civil targets and areas in the southern provinces. This brought the total figure of armed sorties carried out by the Anglo-U.S. evil warplanes coming from bases in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and turkey over the period dec. 17, 1998-mar.8, 2003 to 50,950, the spokesman said.

<p>Watching "Gods and Generals" over the weekend made me wonder about our enduring effort to elevate man's inhumanity to man to something virtuous.</p> <p>This ponderous Civil War epic is hagiography disguised as history - unabashedly rev erential toward its subjects and permeated by an unmistakable Southern bias.</p>

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<p>WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has settled on a plan for a possible invasion of Iraq that envisions seizing most of the country quickly and encircling Baghdad, but assumes that Saddam Hussein will probably fall from power before U.S. forces enter the capital, senior U.S. military officials said.</p> <p>Hedging its bets, the Pentagon is also preparing for the possibility of prolonged fighting in and around Baghdad. Administration war planners expect that, even if the Iraqi president is deposed, there could be messy skirmishes there and in Saddam's hometown, Tikrit, the military officials said.</p>

It is being reported that the Russian government is planning to use force to end the crisis. Because of the breakdown in talks, the terrorists plan to start executing hostages as of 6:00 am tomorrow. 18:20 All journalists are told to leave the scene. The elite Alpha anti-terrorist unit is brought in.