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38161 UK commandos - land war? -- rank: 1000

Sunday Telegraph (London) - May 2, 1999 COMMANDOS SENT TO JOIN KOSOVO FORCE By Andrew Gilligan, Defence Correspondent A Sea King helicopter aboard the British aircraft carrier HMS Invincible is to send an entire battle group of commandos and the Special Boat Service to the seas off the Balkans next week in a sign that Nato commanders are preparing for a land war. More than 1,000 Green Berets of 40 Commando, Royal Marines, and other units will sail from Plymouth on May 11 aboard Ocean, the Navy's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 2 07:53:48 PDT 1999

38162 war so far -- rank: 1000

Times (London) - May 2, 1999 THE WAR SO FAR Duration: 39 days. Attacks: More than 4,400 strikes on 500 target areas. Over 1,000 aircraft deployed, 11,000 sorties flown (320/day), with 600 sorties on Friday alone. 2,000 sorties flown in first 10 days (rising from 200/day to 390/day). 10 American B-52 bombers left this weekend for UK bases. 'Bunker busting' GBU-28 bomb, weighing 5,000 lbs, used for first time last week, in raid on Pristina airfield NATO losses: 1 F117A Nighthawk stealth fighter, 1 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 2 07:51:43 PDT 1999

38163 O'conner -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >Michael would never insult anyone. I think he's incapable of it. I meant that in the best sense, of course. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 1 21:29:06 PDT 1999

38164 O'conner -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: > >> David Hume and Sir James Steuart wrote of superfluous mouths. >> > >Are you insinuating that I am asking too many questions???????? >If people annoy me, and many have with foul mouthed insults to one >another on this list, I use the delete key. Michael would never insult anyone. I think he's incapable of it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 1 20:10:19 PDT 1999

38165 COVERING UP RACISM -- rank: 1000

EmaChissit at cs.com wrote: > Doug >had nothing to do with it and was offended by what I'd posted because it was, >rather subtly, an attack on those who refuse to see the ambiguity and >slipperiness of racism on the part of whites in this country. No, it irritated me because it was re-treading some already well-trodden ground. "Subtly" isn't the first word that comes to mind, either. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 1 14:03:23 PDT 1999

38166 Happy May Day !!!!!!!! -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: > HAPPY MAY DAY ! Don't forget that in the U.S., today is both Law Day and Loyalty Day! Doug ---- THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release April 30, 1999 LOYALTY DAY, 1999 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Born in the twilight of the 18th century, our great Nation has grown and flourished, surviving a civil war, the Great D ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 1 08:43:07 PDT 1999

38167 Croatian cleansing, with US help -- rank: 1000

[Should the U.S. add "Military Professional Resources Inc., a private, Virginia-based training company staffed by retired American military officers" to its list of bombing targets too?] New York TImes - March 21, 1999 War Crimes Panel Finds Croat Troops 'Cleansed' the Serbs By RAYMOND BONNER Investigators at the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague have concluded that the Croatian Army carried out summary executions, indiscriminate shelling of civilian populations and ''ethn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 31 21:38:05 PST 1999

38168 Even Worse -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >> And who are they? The party that gave us WW I, WW II, and the wars in >Korea >> & Vietnam? Not to mention the CIA, NATO, the Bretton Woods institutions, >> and GATT/WTO? Are they the ones who do imperialism right or wrong? > >[ "gave us WW II" ?!?! ] First Doug channels Bob Dole, doing the "Democrat >wars" rap. Ok, so you concede the rest? That leaves the Democrats as the undisputed party of imperialism and war, and Bob ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 31 21:23:29 PST 1999

38169 Fw: Churchill quote? -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton asked: >>Someone just sent this on to me? Anyone know the answer? >> >>> >>> >>>Was it Winston Churchill who said "if you're not a socialist at 20, you >>have >>>no heart. If you're still one at 40 you have no brain." ?? Shane Mage replied: >It was, supposedly, Georges Clemenceau. According to the Columbia Dictionary of Quotations via Microsoft Bookshelf: I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 2 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 31 17:20:40 PST 1999

38170 bouncing ethnicity -- rank: 1000

NM wrote: >A number people have suggested this, more seriously than you, and I think it >is a shame and a sign of political desparation. A few years ago at a public >meeting, some yo-yo from the SWP stood up and said that the Contract On >America shouldn't be fought so strongly, because if things get real bad, >more people will move to the left. Seems to me that this sort of >formulation, in addition to ignoring actual demographic shifts right and >left, is based on the fr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 31 15:23:54 PST 1999

38171 stats -- rank: 1000

from Sam Smith's Progressive Review: >BALKAN STATS I > >FROM A COLUMN BY TONY SNOW: Key members of the United States Senate sat >slack-jawed through a confidential briefing last Thursday from the Clinton >administration foreign-policy team. ~~ After the foreign-policy wise men >asserted that the United States has a moral imperative to stop the murderous >Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, one senator asked: How many Albanians >have Milosevic's troops massacred this ye ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 31 15:10:05 PST 1999

38172 Greece -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: >Greece ...isn't going along with the bombing, as far as I know. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 31 15:07:57 PST 1999

38173 Kosovo -- rank: 1000

Oh yeah... J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > In the meantime things just seem to be getting worse. I guess >whoever (Max S.?) forecast that this will lead to the US electing >"the people who know how to do imperialism right" may prove >to be correct. And who are they? The party that gave us WW I, WW II, and the wars in Korea & Vietnam? Not to mention the CIA, NATO, the Bretton Woods institutions, and GATT/WTO? Are they the ones who do imperialism right or wrong? If y ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 31 14:38:13 PST 1999

38174 Kosovo -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > 4) The Washington Post reports that there were >disagreements among the NATO leaders about escalating >the bombing to Belgrade. Unfortunately, about on a par with >its opaque reporting on the vote in the US Senate, it failed to >say who was questioning the escalation, although a careful >reading between the lines suggests that the US and UK were >for it. Hmm. Today's FT reports that the French, surprisingly, are fully behind the bombing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 31 14:35:40 PST 1999

38175 "cruise-missile liberals" -- rank: 1000

By Mark Steel Tuesday March 30, 1999 The Guardian www.newsunlimited.co.uk Not just any refugee gets on television news. They must hold auditions. Kurds, for example, are obviously not photogenic enough. It's a shame, as they've worked so hard to get the part. According to the Turkish parliament's own investigation, in 15 years 4,000 Kurdish villages have been destroyed by Turkish security forces, leaving 30,000 dead, and 3 million driven from their homes. But they don't even get a cameo. Still, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 31 11:21:50 PST 1999