Posts by Russell Brown
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Hi James,
I think it's evident that al Qaeda's men in Anbar have done the coalition a favour by being so vile that even the Sunni insurgency wanted rid of them.
But do you not see an irony in the US arming thousands of Baathist insurgents and declaring it all a marvelous success?
And, to return to the original topic, what impact would you expect an attack on Iran to have on the mood of Iraq's Shia majority, and the Sadrists in particular? Do you think it will help the project?
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RNZ, bless their poor unbias hearts, just went over the top this morning with their interview of some poor woman whose son had died. Just bizarre. But it is the school holidays so a mini silly season.
There's one thing we can agree on -- RNZ's handling of it was undignified and silly.
But believing that "Helen Clark said exactly the same thing" on the basis of the passage you quoted is very wishful thinking.
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They weren;t civilians. THey were soldiers. But I think you mean they were working on civilian projects.
But the distinction was made clear at the time - we didn;t send military to fight the war but did so to clean up afterwards.Yes, and then we brought them home and didn't replace them, because it was too dangerous and their work was being made irrelevant by the continuing bloodshed.
I see Key has issued his qualifier and explained that he was referring to the "technical war". And that's really the only sense in which he could be right: if you define the war as the first two weeks of hostilities, then it was over after two weeks.
The reality is that 3000+ US troops and perhaps hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died as a result of the fighting since. And in that time about four million Iraqis have been forced from their homes, half of them fleeing the country altogether. By any measure, it's a war zone.
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A little late, but just as lovely: our report from the 2007 APRA Silver Scroll Awards, featuring interviews with Jordan Luck, the first inductee into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame, and APRA boss Anthony Healey.
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In conversation with Johnny Grimmond of The Economist, Paul Deady looks forward to a looming landmark for humanity: soon, a majority of the world's people will live in cities.
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David Slack catches up with New Zealand stand-up comic jamie Noone, who's been plying his trade at Sydney's Comedy Store.
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ndeed. you can imagine my surprise to leave a windless wellington morning to arrive in hailstorm in chch.
We had three hailstorms yesterday. The one that hammered down on the marquee being used for the Triangle Stratos launch was a cracker.
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Our front row is excellent, and due props for that, but I'd rather have an excellent lineout and an adequate scrum than the other way around.
Especially in this tournament, where scrum superiority doesn't appear to be bringing much benefit.
Maybe it's time for Ali Williams to start stealing some throws like he used to.
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Plus: the British bookies still seems confident in the All Blacks to win the tournament.
That French team: They're going to play a conservative game against us, by shifting a 2nd-5 to fullback and playing a 21yo in his first season of international rugby at 1st-5, on the basis of his game against, um, Georgia. Exxxcellent ...
The Aussies: Warmest thanks to the ARU's John O'Neill for that "everyone hates England" stuff. It's given the British press so much to work with they haven't had time to make up any old bollocks about the All Blacks ...
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Tracey reports that you can't get accommodation in Cardiff and that flights across the Channel for the weekend are apparently going for up to £700!
She's expecting there to be a lot of NZ supporters at the game -- much more so than French.
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Some hilarious stories about Welsh supporters who "never dreamed" that Wales wouldn't make the quarters and had shelled out hundreds if not a thousand pounds for tickets, flights and accommodation in Marseille this weekend and now don't want to go. It is rather amusing though that the UK press seem amazed at Argentina having made it through (were any of us surprised? I think not), and there are also lots of stories about the "minnows roaring" in reference to Fiji beating Wales. They don't seem to appreciate that they themselves are actually crap, as much as Fiji have played quite well.
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