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Originally posted by BeBro
Petraeus sounds somehow Roman. Like Petraeus Magnus or Gaius Petraeus
Petraeus sounds somehow Roman. Like Petraeus Magnus or Gaius Petraeus
His parents are Dutch-American.
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His dad's name is Sixtus, believe it or not.
His parents are Dutch-American.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891 -
The Tiomes has a new article on the Iraqi oil law:
BAGHDAD, Sept. 12 — A carefully constructed compromise on a draft law governing Iraq’s rich oil fields, agreed to in February after months of arduous talks among Iraqi political groups, appears to have collapsed. The apparent breakdown comes just as Congress and the White House are struggling to find evidence that there is progress toward reconciliation and a functioning government here.
It's more than a little bit ironic that national reconciliation looked a lot more plausible before the surge started than several months into it..."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Petraeus' presentation is just replete with misleading figures. Here's another one:
His graph includes hoaxes. Some enterprising bloggers wondered what the figure would look like if hoaxes were excluded (since the report includes the raw figures). This is the result:
So, June (and March for that matter) was considerably worse than every pre-surge month in the graph. August shows a drop-off from the average, but not a particularly significant one. What one could say is that the number off IED attacks has been remarkably constant over the past couple years..."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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There needs to be a good graph that compares IED attacks to amount of travel done by US forces."Yay Apoc!!!!!!!" - bipolarbear
"At least there were some thoughts went into Apocalypse." - Urban Ranger
"Apocalype was a great game." - DrSpike
"In Apoc, I had one soldier who lasted through the entire game... was pretty cool. I like apoc for that reason, the soldiers are a bit more 'personal'." - General LuddComment
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