Word: actualizations
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There are actual plans for ground fighting, though, in conjunction with Iraqi opposition groups, similar to the special-forces linkups with the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan against the Taliban in 2001. In the northern Iraqi autonomous zone of Kurdistan, U.S. troops are readying the various Kurdish militias for war. They are conducting weapons training and policing an alliance among them. And since September, at Taszar air base in Hungary, the U.S. has also been providing combat training to 5,000 Iraqi rebels, including Kurds and Shi'ites from the south. Another group trained at Taszar will become advisers...
...propaganda --the tear-jerking goodbyes with sweethearts, the boilerplate (albeit sincere) talk about duty--hardly differs from much war news. In a way, the series is even subversive: the Bush Administration won the semantic battle to describe the struggle against terrorism as a war, but Profiles shows that the actual work looks more like policing. As with the battlefield reports Ellsberg pored over, it needs a skeptical eye--but that just makes its story that much more interesting...
Moreover, it would be a logistical nightmare to try to set up a new election system, new campaigning rules and secure new funding for these elections. Also the considerable effort representatives would have to put into “re-election” campaigning would distract from their actual work on the committees...
While unions had planned to protest outside buildings with classrooms, students said they were not forced to cross actual picket lines, though some said they felt they did cross theoretical picket lines by simply entering Yale buildings for class...
...Actual Clampettesque country folk move to a California mansion...