Posts by Clint Fern
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Russell Brown,
The idea that the Bush administration was the instigator of all that is bad with US interventions is laughable. Central America in the 80s springs to mind as a precursor of the techniques used in Iraq. It certainly isn't just a republican problem either, it was the Carter administration that first started funding what became the Taliban and the Kosovo conflict, aka the war of Bills Penis, saw an early use of uranium depleted shells.
Of course the US is far from the only country to use these practices, we just hear about them. The UK is complicit in most of the recent conflicts and previous to that was involved in a number of post WWII incidents (e.g. Kenya, Malaya).
I would doubt that Russia observed niceties when it rolled into Chechnya or Georgia. Simple fact is war is always dirty whoever is fighting, which in recent times is very often the US.
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Unlike Neil, who seems to have amazing insight into the events, I am unsure of what is true as I wasn't there. Assange does seem to be a bit unusual but then again this Steve Bell cartoon does seem to sum up some of the reaction / distraction to this whole thing.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Russell Brown,
Have to say Packer completely ignores the main US related scandal to come out of this - the spying on the UN. That one certainly outweighs the right of confidentiality of the US and I guess would have put a fair size hole in his article.
Along with the China abandoning North Korea and the Saudi bomb Iran one its probably the only really newsworthy one - the stating the bleeding obvious award must go to the Charles not respected like the Queen one.
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The iPhone 4 dropping calls is not a design fault.
It is designed that way so that you have to hold it exactly as Jobs intended.