Iraq

“If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not be like a money lender; charge him no interest.” -Exodus 22:25 Unless of course the rate is a CRAZY 5-year fixed 4.32% per annum! How exactly does one refinance the house the Christian Way? I suppose the Polonius method [...]

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OK, I’m being totally serious here. I had this entry typed up, mentioning how they’d probably preempt the highly symbolic nature of counterinsurgency and do the transfer of power from Bremer to Negroponte about a day or two early (the former pissing off as if his girlfriend’s husband had just come up the driveway), but [...]

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“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” So wrote Sun Tzu two and a half thousand years ago, and in spite of the fame of the book in which this line appears – The Art of War – it seems to be a book more talked about than actually read. [...]

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Getting it right in Iraq (some tweaking for aesthetic purposes. Coz, you know, I’m anal-retentive) A great cloud hangs over public broadcasting in Britain since Lord Hutton’s trial and sentencing of the BBC. Yet for the journalist at the centre of the fuss, Andrew Gilligan, it’s been a great week, as more evidence emerged that [...]

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Defence Minister Robert Hill says the longer the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq goes on, the less chance there is of finding them. An independent US report says it has found no evidence Saddam Hussein had stockpiled any weapons of mass destruction. Senator Hill says it is easy to be wise in [...]

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