Russia tests world's biggest bomb

Crankyfeet

Shock and Awe. And to test out the toys they'd been developing for the previous few years.

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nns1400

Blah blah blah

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garage sale GT

I am sorry you feel that way.

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nns1400

Doesn't anyone even care that Evel Knievel died today???!!!?

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fscyclist

Now there's a surprise

nns1400

LMAO!

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Bro Deal

Total thread hijack, but this subject is depressing. What up with Simon Pegg being cast as Scotty for the new movie? Is it going to be a comedy? They could bring Nick Frost in as a red shirt.

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Bro Deal

Almsot forgot. They also cast John Cho of Harold and Kumar go to White Castle as Sulu. I am sensing some serious comedic opportunities here. Bring in Kumar as a red shirt also.

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fscyclist

Glad you got it. I'm afraid many won't. It seems our friends across the pond have lost much of their humor.

fscyclist

Alright Bro, you're scaring me.

limerickman

The fact of the matter is that if your country had not invaded Iraq in 2003 - the
ongoing conflict and mayhem in Iraq would not be happening now.

Your country's invasion of Iraq is directly and indirectly responsible for that death toll.

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morelike hypocrisy.

garage sale GT

Al-Quaeda has something to do with it, I think.

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garage sale GT

Also, even though it was a botch, that part is over and done with. (edit: the occupation planning was botched. "it" is the occupation planning.)

To say we are killing 200,000 Iraqi civilians a year is to say it would stop if we left. In all probability it would get far worse.

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Carrera

This theme has been fiercely debated in the past so I figure I'll avoid going over old ground. What I would advise is you forget all the politics, claim and counter claim and get yourself a decent, reliable, academic book on Israel's history. The best I found was Michael Grant as he's a wide ranging classical scholar with a knowledge of ancient languages such as Greek, Latin, Hebrew e.t.c. It's a pure history book with no politics whatsoever.
The information below, I figure, is a mini version of the Middle East conflict and became Russia's problem recently Ethnic problems and conflict have their roots in history, religion and politic.
What's interesting about the Ingush is they're Moslems who want to resettle in the Prigorodnyi after they left in Stalin's era but the Russians favour the Christian Ossetiyans. This is the background to the Beslan school massacre and mainly what lay behind it, going all the way back to Stalin.

"In October 1992 armed conflict broke out between Ingushetiya and North
Ossetiya over the Prigorodnyi district, which was populated by Ingush but
had been given to Ossetiya in 1944, when the entire Ingush population had
been deported to Kazakstan (from whence they returned in 1956). Several
hundred people were killed in the 1992 fighting, and Russian troops moved
in as peace keepers in November 1992. Since then there has been an uneasy
truce in the region, punctuated by the assassination of the Russian
commander in August 1993, amid increasing pressure from 40,000 Ingush
refugees who want to return to Ossetiya. It is generally assumed that
Moscow favors the Ossetiyan side, in part because it tends to prefer the
status quo in territorial disputes, and partly because the Ossetiyans are
Christian while the Ingush are Moslem."

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