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Nyu~ I should be reading my textbook.

Aren't we lucky to be living in a time of international peace?? Otherwise things would be happening everywhere.

[A correspondent] said that Bush was "absolutely convinced that Iran is going to get the bomb" if it is not stopped. He said that the President believes that he must do "what no Democrat or Republican, if elected in the future, would have the courage to do," and "that saving Iran is going to be his legacy."

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In Vancouver, on the same day that trade unionists and "peace" activists were marching under Hezbollah banners in Toronto [*], about 300 people gathered at the Vancouver Art Gallery for a rally cosponsored by Vancouver’s StopWar Coalition. The rally’s main speaker was Rafeh Hulays, who has openly declared in a letter to the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz that Hezbollah’s kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers — the event that set off all the bloodletting in Lebanon — was "legal, moral, and necessary".

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About 300 Lebanese, most of them civilians, have been killed in the violence. Thirty Israelis, including 15 civilians, have also been killed. ... From the signing of the Declaration of Principles between Israel and the PLO on September 13, 1993, until September 2000, 256 civilians and soldiers were killed in terrorist attacks in Israel. [About 600 from 1980-1999.]

o/~ O Canada, I'm glad we're far away :P