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Obama said to want revised Afghanistan options

Fayebella — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:49:07 GMT

.[quote]President Barack Obama rejected the Afghanistan war options before him and asked for revisions, his defense secretary said Thursday, after the U.S. ambassador in Kabul argued that a significant U.S. troop increase would only prop up a weak, corruption-tainted government. [/quote]

Oh great, then I guess we should only send troops into countires with strong, uncorruptable governments!

MUSLIM TERRORIST

Fayebella — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:42:03 GMT

Obama and the rest of the PC faux-marxists in this administration are going to get more people killed pretending that they do not know why Hasan started massacriing soldiers mobilized for Iraq and Afghanistan

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Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals

Patrick — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:16:16 GMT

Interesting development in Oki land. :)

[quote]Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals

by NRC International

20-05-2009

The Dutch justice ministry has announced it will close eight prisons and cut 1,200 jobs in the prison system. A decline in crime has left many cells empty.

During the 1990s the Netherlands faced a shortage of prison cells, but a decline in crime has since led to overcapacity in the prison system. The country now has capacity for 14,000 prisoners but only 12,000 detainees.

Deputy Justice Minister Nebahat Albayrak announced on Tuesday that eight prisons will be closed, resulting in the loss of 1,200 jobs. Natural redundancy and other measures should prevent any forced lay-offs, the minister said.

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Dutch far-Right comes second in European Parliament election

Patrick — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 05:44:19 GMT

Isn't Wilders openly gay? Seems strange to think of someone being gay and "far right" at the same time.

[quote]Dutch far-Right comes second in European Parliament election

Geert Wilders' far-Right anti-immigration party made significant gains in the European Parliament elections in the Netherlands on Thursday, according to exit polls.

The European Parliament elections had been widely expected to punish governments struggling to cope with the global economic crisis, and polls released by the ANP news agency and broadcaster NOS put the Right-wing Freedom Party on course to win four of the 25 Dutch seats in the parliament, after having none in the previous assembly. This put Mr Wilders' party second only to the ruling Christian Democrats, which got nearly 20 per cent of votes, according to the poll.

Mr Wilders, who was banned from Britain by the Home Office because of his controversial views on Islam, won support from Protestant and Catholic voters disenchanted with what has been perceived as the growing influence of the nation's 800,000 Muslims, many of them immigrants from Morocco and Turkey.

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