Well it took another actor to finally defeat the USSR. Arnie has been successful so far and there is no reason to believe an actor can’t be a successful political leader. IMHO the world needs more leadership candidates who wern’t born with their noses up the political establishments ass.

Sauron

Hand

Thanks for the clarification.

Geforce

I do know the EU and the UN are different.;)
Any way you seem to recognize the hazards of rotational leadership. It will be interesting to see how this gets worked out in the new EU. Perhaps you should just cut to the chase and make the French president the automatic president of the EU.:D Foreign policy would be snap. Just kidding

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Sauron

Geforce

I may be mistaken, but hasn’t the French government also recently passed a law to protect the French president from prosecution while he/she is in office?

Wasn’t Mr Berlusconi simply responding in kind when he made the concentration camp guard remark. Were there not other members of the EU parliment who were making ignorant comments as well?

Mr Berlusconi was elected by the Italian voters and as I understand it is legally entitled to be the new President of the EU according to EU rules which provides for a rotational selection as I understand it. A rule not to different in consequence to that in the UN which for example, allows countries like Iraq, Cuba, Iran, Libya, etc to assume the Chair of the UN council on human rights, based on where they stand in the alphabet. A process which you and others here defended as fair and just when we discused that issue a while ago. Seems like a good idea until someone you don’t like gets the job.

Sauron

History of Napalm can be found at:

http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic919.htm

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Sauron

Hand

No I don’t believe he has any power but given his record of self deception I am surprised by the statement he has made. In any event, he has done the US a favour. 🙂

As to your last comment. Aye to that.

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Sauron

I would imagine that now that Saddam has confirmed that his sons are dead, we will be spared all the “its just an American trick”crap making the rounds in the ME media. Frankly I am surprised by the admission. I would have thought that encouraging doubt about the deaths and the belief by some that the US faked the killings, would have served his purpose better.

Sauron

Mongu

My comments were made specifically in response to the WWII D-Day comment made by Hand.

With respect to your views about the British Commonwealth. I tend to agree. As far as I am concerned it is a relic and it’s only purpose is to provide the various leaders with the occasional paid vacation at the taxpayers expense where they can act important, pretend to deal with some minor political issue and gather for a photo op.

Elizabeth II is still the ‘Queen’ here as well. Outside of a relatively small group, Canadians have no emotional attachment to her or the Commonweath but no one here can figure out a way to ditch the institution gracefully. I suspect that when Elisabeth dies, there will be a movement to cut the final tie…maybe.

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Sauron

Well Garry would certainly have the details about the degree of participation by NZ forces (and ANZAC forces in general) during D-Day but my guess is that it would be quite small if any as ANZAC forces were heavly engaged in the Pacific at the time.

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Sauron