Brendan Nelson, healing iraq, Jane Arraf

Brendan Nelson healing iraq Jane Arraf

Conservatives have no principles:
I had read that Conservatives believed in less govt, and local empowerment.
But in Aus they're now pushing for national curricula for schools,
although Brendan Nelson (where has the earring gone) (Doctor who as Health Minister banned RU486) apparently says "intelligent design could be taught in schools if parents approve"
(BN is now Defence minister) - this is in accord with brain-dead Conservatives, but conflicts with the new uber-curriculum.
Unless he is proposing a nation-wide referendum on miraculous-intervention.
If a majority of parents say miracles happen, then we teach miracles at all schools?
Brendan was on tv this morning saying that things are fine in Iraq. He says 98% have electricity.
I guess he extrapolated from a sample. I wonder if it was as large as the Johns Hopkins sample.
Maybe some had the electricity inserted in the urethra.


healingiraq sees it somewhat differently:

I now officially regret supporting this war back in 2003. The guilt is too much for me to handle.
An Islamist website was able to post photos from the Baghdad Medico-legal Institute. 49 tortured corpses were received at the morgue today. Several corpses had genitals and appendages cut off, while others had faces smashed in with sledgehammers and signs of chemical burns.

onthescene.msnbc
Jane Arraf, NBC News Correspondent (09:41 am ET, 10/10/06)sees rather les than 98% electrified:

I am very, very lucky. I am alive in a war zone. Most of the time I have running water and when I turn on the lights, a series of generators ensures that they come on. I don't have to worry about saying goodbye to my family here in the morning and not knowing whether I'll see them in the evening. I know I'm lucky because almost everyone I know in Baghdad has to worry constantly about those things.
Some readers and viewers think we journalists are exaggerating about the situation in Iraq. I can almost understand that because who would want to believe that things are this bad? Particularly when so many people here started out with such good intentions.
I'm more puzzled by comments that the violence isn't any worse than any American city. Really? In which American city do 60 bullet-riddled bodies turn up on a given day? In which city do the headless bodies of ordinary citizens turn up every single day? In which city would it not be news if neighborhood school children were blown up? In which neighborhood would you look the other way if gunmen came into restaurants and shot dead the customers?

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abu aardvark qahwasada experts on the two rivers?
globalresearch
aval build-up in the Persian Gulf and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Some are saying that the U.S.S.Enterprise, an old carrier, is off to the Gulf to be deliberately scuttled, blame to be sheeted to Iran.
Its hard to sink such a vessel, Israeli nukes may be required.

This is the original Man Ray
Not intended to be culturally insensitive, the title might now cause riots.
Brendan Nelson healing iraq Jane Arraf