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...Behave yourself, will ya? Go and find real work." Moore's goal here is to show the corruptive influence of the war on Iraq: coarsening the American spirit at home and abroad, killing others. The film contains previously unseen footage of U.S. soldiers' abuse of Iraqi detainees last Christmas Eve. One of the men in custody apparently has an erection under his blanket; a soldier swats it and says, "Ali Baba has a hard-on," while another G.I. shouts, in a schoolboy's merry derision, "You touched his dick!" Toward the end of the film, Moore returns home to Flint...
...where reading, and thus independent thinking, has been outlawed - has news value beyond its financing and distribution tangles. The movie, a brisk and entertaining indictment of the Bush Administration?s middle East policies before and after September 11, 2001, features new footage of abuse by U.S. soldiers: a Christmas Eve 2003 sortie in which Iraqi captives are publicly humiliated...
...That very eve, I logged on to thefacebook.com and saw words that thrilled me to my very marrow: “You have been poked by Rohit Chopra.” My excitement soon faded. I learned from friends that one of the many things Chopra does with his time is poke lots and lots of people. Nonetheless, I asked him to be my friend. He accepted...
...east and west of the JPDA. But first it must persuade Australia, and then the Indonesians (who occupied the territory between 1975 and 1999), with whom sea-boundary talks are imminent. "The petroleum resources are utterly essential to East Timor," President Xanana Gusm?o told Time on the eve of the April 19-22 talks. "We desperately need funds to fix roads, to build up our schools and health system. Our international donors say 'But you have all this oil and gas. So don't ask us for more money...
...December of 1996, on the eve of its 130th anniversary, the Advocate found itself in deep financial trouble once again. The organization owed several thousand dollars to its printer, its building was in need of renovation and it faced an impending battle with the University over the land that is the site of its building...