History Forum / War History / War History / February 2005

"Lebanese ministers resign office"
BBC News
"Lebanon's Prime Minister Omar Karami has announced he and his
government are resigning, two weeks after the murder of former PM Rafik

"The Roots of Liberal Guilt"
"Yesterday's item on Kurt Andersen's reckoning with liberalism's moral
crisis prompted an interesting analogy from reader Dale Hajost:
"Imagine that a man is walking down a quiet street and passes an

"And God saw every thing that he had made, and behold, it was very good.
And the evening and the morning were the sixth day."  Genesis 1:31  <g>
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Vide infra....

Reading up on the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, I note that Benedek's troops
_marched_ from Olmutz to Koniggratz in mid-June, and apparently got pretty
exhausted doing it. However, according to the map in Gordon Craig's
_Koniggratz_, there appears to have been a direct rail link ...

http://www.supportfoxhunting.co.uk/
"Hunts take place across England & Wales"
"Thousands of hunt supporters have been out on the first day of hunting
in England and Wales after the ban on hunting with dogs came into force.

"UN inspectors 'spent their days drinking'"
By Francis Harris
(Filed: 16/02/2005)
The Telegraph

"Hockey Stick on Ice
Politicizing the science of global warming."
Friday, February 18, 2005
The Wall Street Journal

Who would you say was the bigger Pre-maddona of the two?  Hell, I'll
even ask who's the better General? (and no using crap like Patton and
Mcarthur are both brilliant on different terrain)

From:
http://www.schwarzreport.org/Essays/whyckill.htm
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Why Communism Kills

"GEFFEN UNLOADS ON HILLARY: 'SHE CAN'T WIN'"
Thu Feb 17 2005
Matt Drudge
"Sen. Hillary Clinton should not count on help from Hollywood mogul

Jolly Good Show!
And if the U.S.A. were using these drones to look right up the rear ends
of the Totalitarian Iranian Mullahs that would be just fine too.
D. Spencer Hines

As I have been saying for YEARS -- American "Liberalism" is dying.
No Wonder Pogue Gans is so QUIET -- he's in a Deep Blue Funk -- like
many "Liberals".
"Where did we go wrong?" -- they whine.

This link offers some answers:
http://www.cjb.cc/members/geschichte/seppdepp/019.htm
"Report of the Joint Relief Commission of the International Red Cross
1941-1946", Genf 1948, S. 104: "At Dresden, in the Russian Zone, where

"Blair's 'passion' for third term"
"Tony Blair has spoken of the passion he feels for the Labour Party
[sic] winning another general election, but warned his supporters
against complacency.

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THE FONTAINEBLEAU MEMORANDUM    25 March 1919
Some considerations for the Peace Conference
       before they finally draft their terms