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...rationales for Asian militaries to stay in Iraq. Japan imports more than 85% of its oil from the Middle East and is counting on preferential oil contracts as Iraq's petroleum industry gets back on its feet. Last year Mitsubishi signed a deal to procure 40,000 barrels of crude per day from the southern city of Basra. In South Korea, top firms like Hyundai Construction and LG Electronics are hoping to reap rewards in Iraq. Hyundai has already won two contracts worth $240 million to build a hospital and repair dams. And the need to bolster economic relations with...
...destruction of the World Trade Center, the substance of his political comments has fluctuated in sync with the Bush administration’s approval ratings. In the fall of 2001 and the winter of 2002, he alternated fervent celebrations of the courageous rescue workers who gave their lives with crude, reproachful generalizations directed at the loathed “towel-heads.” In the spring and summer of 2003, amidst strong popular support for the victorious commander-in-chief, he viciously lashed out at the French for failing to help us in our just war on Iraq...
...rockets and head for the fringes of one of the 20 Israeli settlements laced into the Gaza Strip. Sometimes they would hit something, often not. "We'd try to shoot settlers or the soldiers guarding the houses. Or we'd fire Qassams at them," he said, referring to the crude short-range rocket called the Qassam II that Hamas began making...
...over his shoulder. Europe watched troop movements in Santo Domingo while bullets still ricocheted across the Caribbean town ... And between the best and the worst that TV had to offer, imaginative men could pick out the promise of a dream born more than a century ago, when the first crude telegraph suggested that man might some day far outreach the limitations of his speech and hearing. #151;TIME...
...Sunday they were ousted by incoming Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his Socialist party. Conservative pundits, like New York Times columnist David Brooks, have been quick to denounce the Spaniards for appeasing Al Qaeda. Their arguments are not without merit, but they are overly crude and mistakenly conflate the fight against Islamic terrorism with the war against Iraq...