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Mary Matalin, Bob Beckel, Sarah Palin are just some of those who have effectively called for his killing... so their activities in supporting and nurturing murderous regimes in Burma and Pakistan can be hidden. Or are they just embarrassed? Does this show how empty and gutless is their pretence of supporting free speech? Does it not show that really, they are terrified of a population with access to the truth?

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It's a cynical way to take advantage of a public holiday to fill the ground and make bulk money. It's an excuse to present the overpaid, drunken game players, ball kickers, as the inheritors of the Anzac legend- which I thought was about the common man showing greatness. It appends all sorts of very NON-Anzac notions to what should be a solemn day.

Thirty years ago communism died and everyone accepted that government had to have nothing to do with running the economy. So we got endless rounds of tax cuts, government assets sold, and the private sector brought in to do everything... even providing soldiers for wars. Now, it is clear that the private sector's irresponsibility has created a disaster... whose full effects are yet to play out. Yet still people who've read too much Ayn Rand and Hayek blame governments... please explain how this is anything other than dogma, in relation to the current crisis?

http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2009/02/13/55...

... by giving them ridiculous, mis-spelt, made up, or geographical names? I mean, when you read of hear these names you automatically think 'low income, high alcohol consumption, no books in the house'. And then you read the rest of the news story and its a sad, bogan family story involving a bad father and a mother too powerless to get out, and abused kids.

So parents, why do you do it?

... did some answerers seemt o think WWII strated in December 1941? Why do such people feel qualified to provide 'answers'?

... and helped bring an enemy into being who has drained their blood and treasure, before the real global tussle – against India and China – has really started. How do you admit that to yourself, without having a nervous breakdown?

Lets be honest, even if you think he's pretty, he's a ham, a moron, gullible, and has no depth or real acting skills. In previous generations the great actors could actually act a bit- de Niro, Bogart, Newman, Brando, a dozen others.

But the greatest actor of the current generation is a joke- who on earth do people want to see this guy?

How long until the US authorities admit that there is no 'Iraqi Government' fighting 'terrorists' but that the Iraqi Government security forces are themselves just an arm of the Shia militias? Tonight's news has naive and credulous reporters pretending that a suicide bomber 'slipped through' security to kill a group of pro-US Sunni leaders... the hit was obviously organised and enabled by the Shia leaders who took control of the security forces after Iraq's glorious election.

Given that US authorities in Washington and Baghdad are bewildered and ineffectual, why should US citizens elect to 'stay the course', rather than save soldiers' lives by getting them away from their inept civilian and military leadership?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/06/25/1961...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gangsofira...

Most people can recognise that although the vast majority of US, like any, troops are honourable, there are some who can't handle the pressure and murder. But I have heard here people defend the US troops involved in incidents of apparent rape and murder of children-- arguing they couldn't possibly be doing anything other than 'their jobs'. My question is for these guys only, and it is:

What do we do with this guy (see link)? Why should US authorities dare to presume they should be given the case?

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/arrest-sparks-...

... if the two year-old had have had her OWN gun with which to defend herself?

Why does the White House do nothing about Osama, while supporting those who support Khan?

Would a responsible leader oppose such a ban, and thus greatly assist terrorists?

1) Highly motivated by religion.

2) Poorly educated, doubtful about science, but don't really understand it.

3) Thinks quality media is a conspiracy by the decadent and 'soft'.

4) Prone to resort to military means to solve political disputes.

... by being obsessed with sport and celebrities? How can anyone who only reads 'news' about Paris Hilton, Tom Cruise and football/basketball pretend they respect the troops, when they attach far more importance to games and fakes? In World War 2, the newspapers and radio were full of news about the fighting, yet today we hear little about it and few take an interest. In ignoring their efforts in this way, and replacing actual interest with endless assertions of claimed 'respect', are we not in fact failing to understand the experience of the troops and thereby disrespecting them in the most fundamental way possible?

How is it that many can see that religion is a major obstacle to peace in the Middle East, yet it doesn't dawn on them that religion also has a damaging effect on our own politics?

In my studies of Vietnam, former soldiers are bitter about the interference of non-expert civilians, such as (former USAAF officer) Robert S McNamara. Yet I never hear a peep about the fact that those who originated, planned and prosecute the Iraq war [Rumsfeld, Perle, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Bush] are Washington bureaucrats, very detached from the real world and UTTERLY detached from the military. And this very lack of expertise is the reason for the loss of direction and lack of a strategy. If the reason for the different attitude isn't political, what is it?