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		<title>By: P J Evans</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/29/voices/#comment-858902</link>
		<dc:creator>P J Evans</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Way late, but interesting:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-interior30jul30,1,5397288.story?coll=la-headlines-world&quot;&gt;THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ: A MINISTRY OF FIEFDOMS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Interior Ministry mirrors chaos of a fractured Iraq&lt;br /&gt;
By Ned Parker&lt;br /&gt;
The nerve center of the nation’s police is not so much a government agency as an 11-story powder keg of factions.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Every floor, it appears, is run by a different group, or groups, since some floors have one wing run by one group and another wing run by a different one.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have so much to answer for.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(But I was glad to see people there happy after that football game. It’s probably the best time they’ve had in the last four years.)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Way late, but interesting:<br />
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-interior30jul30,1,5397288.story?coll=la-headlines-world">THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ: A MINISTRY OF FIEFDOMS</a><br />
<em>Interior Ministry mirrors chaos of a fractured Iraq<br />
By Ned Parker<br />
The nerve center of the nation’s police is not so much a government agency as an 11-story powder keg of factions.</em></p>
<p>Every floor, it appears, is run by a different group, or groups, since some floors have one wing run by one group and another wing run by a different one.</p>
<p>We have so much to answer for.</p>
<p>(But I was glad to see people there happy after that football game. It’s probably the best time they’ve had in the last four years.)</p>
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		<title>By: TribeScribe</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/29/voices/#comment-858311</link>
		<dc:creator>TribeScribe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;one more &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/28/VOTING.TMP&amp;tsp=1&quot;&gt;update&lt;/a&gt; from SF&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>one more <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/28/VOTING.TMP&amp;tsp=1">update</a> from SF</p>
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		<title>By: Siun</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/29/voices/#comment-858236</link>
		<dc:creator>Siun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Thank you Dr Zen! fixed it …&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you Dr Zen! fixed it …</p>
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		<title>By: Dr Zen</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/29/voices/#comment-858229</link>
		<dc:creator>Dr Zen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Minor, rather boring point, but it’s the Asian Cup, not the Asian Games.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Minor, rather boring point, but it’s the Asian Cup, not the Asian Games.</p>
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		<title>By: Siun</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/29/voices/#comment-858178</link>
		<dc:creator>Siun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Technicolor - welcome aboard.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To add a link, just click the little LINK button above the comment box and then paste in the link and a description in the second screen - it will take everything you need.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Technicolor &#8211; welcome aboard.</p>
<p>To add a link, just click the little LINK button above the comment box and then paste in the link and a description in the second screen &#8211; it will take everything you need.</p>
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		<title>By: jc in OR</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/29/voices/#comment-858116</link>
		<dc:creator>jc in OR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-858080&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;argosfalcon @ 109&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Funny how progressive/liberal governments produce such wonderful things, where more restrictive/ authoritarian ones create the greatest misery.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bingo.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-858080"><em>argosfalcon @ 109</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Funny how progressive/liberal governments produce such wonderful things, where more restrictive/ authoritarian ones create the greatest misery.</p>
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<p>Bingo.</p>
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		<title>By: dakine01</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/29/voices/#comment-858091</link>
		<dc:creator>dakine01</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-858087&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;technicolor @ 114&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the link…I have been wary of trying a link because I thought that I would screw up the margins or something.  I shouldn’t have been so reluctant, but as a blog lurker I feared that I didn’t have enough knowledge and didn’t want to be embarrased.  Finally I simply did a “cut and paste” and it worked.  Should have had more faith in the blog infrastructure.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you are interested, &lt;a href=&quot;http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/04/12/how-to-write-good-html-version/&quot;&gt;Here are some simple and straightforward instrucitons&lt;/a&gt; on writing html, including links.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And welcome.  Once you’ve de-lurked, it’s pretty difficult to go back.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-858087"><em>technicolor @ 114</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Regarding the link…I have been wary of trying a link because I thought that I would screw up the margins or something.  I shouldn’t have been so reluctant, but as a blog lurker I feared that I didn’t have enough knowledge and didn’t want to be embarrased.  Finally I simply did a “cut and paste” and it worked.  Should have had more faith in the blog infrastructure.</p>
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<p>If you are interested, <a href="http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/04/12/how-to-write-good-html-version/">Here are some simple and straightforward instrucitons</a> on writing html, including links.</p>
<p>And welcome.  Once you’ve de-lurked, it’s pretty difficult to go back.</p>
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		<title>By: GordonM</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/29/voices/#comment-858090</link>
		<dc:creator>GordonM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;There is such a thing as progress: in the Middle Ages, murder rates were as high as 75 / 100,000 (in London - probably more like 25 / 100,000 in Europe). Currently it’s around 5 / 100,000 in the US (and 1.5 / 100,000 in Canada and other civilized countries, though in Colombia it’s still like 60 / 100,000).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wars go the other way: 10% of casualties in the Civil War and WWI were civilian. Now it’s above 90%.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Every generation that fights says &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6921217.stm&quot;&gt;“No More War!”&lt;/a&gt;. And their children know (even though it’s not talked about). But their grandchildren don’t, because the marketeers for nationalism have bad backs, or bad eyesight or other priorities, so they can believably write odes to heroism which are fed to schoolchildren in desparate need of patriotic lesson plans… And so it starts all over again.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;G’night all.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is such a thing as progress: in the Middle Ages, murder rates were as high as 75 / 100,000 (in London &#8211; probably more like 25 / 100,000 in Europe). Currently it’s around 5 / 100,000 in the US (and 1.5 / 100,000 in Canada and other civilized countries, though in Colombia it’s still like 60 / 100,000).</p>
<p>Wars go the other way: 10% of casualties in the Civil War and WWI were civilian. Now it’s above 90%.</p>
<p>Every generation that fights says <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6921217.stm">“No More War!”</a>. And their children know (even though it’s not talked about). But their grandchildren don’t, because the marketeers for nationalism have bad backs, or bad eyesight or other priorities, so they can believably write odes to heroism which are fed to schoolchildren in desparate need of patriotic lesson plans… And so it starts all over again.</p>
<p>G’night all.</p>
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		<title>By: technicolor</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/29/voices/#comment-858087</link>
		<dc:creator>technicolor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Regarding the link…I have been wary of trying a link because I thought that I would screw up the margins or something.  I shouldn’t have been so reluctant, but as a blog lurker I feared that I didn’t have enough knowledge and didn’t want to be embarrased.  Finally I simply did a “cut and paste” and it worked.  Should have had more faith in the blog infrastructure.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Regarding the link…I have been wary of trying a link because I thought that I would screw up the margins or something.  I shouldn’t have been so reluctant, but as a blog lurker I feared that I didn’t have enough knowledge and didn’t want to be embarrased.  Finally I simply did a “cut and paste” and it worked.  Should have had more faith in the blog infrastructure.</p>
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		<title>By: Siun</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/29/voices/#comment-858086</link>
		<dc:creator>Siun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks Laura!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Laura!</p>
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