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...Iraq back together would involve endless micromanagement of Iraqi affairs and an open-ended presence of large numbers of U.S. troops. Breaking up Iraq, on the other hand, could provide an exit strategy for U.S. troops, mitigate the worst effects of civil war and give all Iraqis a greater stake in shaping their future. Few Americans imagined that 3 1/2 years after "liberating" Iraq, the U.S. would be presiding over the country's demise. But in a war in which there have never been good options, partition is the best we have left...
...Yeah, because a life is at stake. And in all those other hazing periods people were just trying to fuck with me. Now they're going into a village and terrorizing innocent people who live simple lives, terrorizing the father, terrorizing the children that I already have. There are a lot of people who are indirectly being effected by it. That's the difference...
...Dems, Fuerza, and RAZA also explored the political identity of Latinos at a pizza dinner discussion they co-sponsored last Wednesday entitled “Election 2006: What’s at Stake for the Latino Community...
...rules, doesn't it make sense to encourage that person, to put a collective arm around her and say something like, Let's go give those numbskulls in Congress a piece of our mind? Wouldn't that make a past transgressor feel as if she had a stake in the system? Of course it would. In fact, a Sentencing Project study that tracked released felons from 1997 through 2000 found that those who voted were less than half as likely to be rearrested as those who did not - or could not - vote...
...year contracts," says Yussef Akly, spokesperson for Hydrocarbons Chamber, an association of over 100 gas and oil companies operating in Bolivia. "But it's the question of investment. Bolivia's move generated conditions that could have had a severe impact on a company's decision to increase its stake here." In the end, however, the agreements do include major investment plans - more than $2 billion over the coming years - alleviating fears that the foreign companies would punish Bolivia by refusing to invest and only sustaining the bare minimum of operations here...