Having not seen the Portugal-Netherlands game, I seem to have missed a fair bit of controversy. I will have to hope I will be able to see a late replay of the game later tonight.

If France are to progress further and get past Spain in the Last 16 phase, then I would play the same team as last night and leave out Zidane. Trezeguet & Henry make them far more threatening up front, and they could have scored 4 or 5 tines last night if Trezeguet knew where the net was!

I do agree with that analysis. Trezeguet seemed to be having a problem with the net location and the off-side. But I wonder what kind of stupidity Domenech will come up with to ruin this. Am I being to negative?

I did just catch a quick replay of the game and indeed the French did play well. However, the real question is and should be, did they play well enough to defeat Spain?

The United States did not supply Saddam or the IQAF with any military aircraft during his reign. But we did supply him intelligence information to aid him in fighting Iran during the Iran-Iraq war 1980-1988. The former IQAF purchased aircraft from France, Soviet Union, United Kingdom and China.

Actually, that is incorrect. The Iraqi government purchased forty-five Bell Model 214ST which were delivered in 1987-88. Iraq was also supplied with several Hughes MD500 and MD500F helicopters although I don’t know whether or not they were used by the military or a civilian operator. As far as the 214s are concerned, they were used by the military but I am unsure as to what role was assigned to such units.

You did indeed TT! I have to tell you that I had a nerve racking day at work this afternoon, trying to focus on what I had to do and the tasks at hand. Having had someone somehow entering a locked room and steal 27 30G video Ipods has meant there have been sweeping changes in our security measures. So I had a lot to do to keep my time occupied while the game was on all the large Plasmas so I could sneak a peak at just about any time. A friend of mine who worked this afternoon would page me any time somethign significant would happen and I owe it to him to let me know that France was up by two shortly after the start of the second half. What an afternoon? I look back at my behaviour and I chuckle at myself for being a little ball of nerves who had consumed too much coffee!

So its sixteen billion dollars for 100 JSF plus support infrastructure I would imagine. I qonder how many Typhoons or Rafales that would get the Australian military? I am sorry to say but this JSF project seems to be taking on water quicker than they can deal with it. I was hoping this aircraft would actually materialize as the aircraft to beat, but it would seem it’s being plagued with development problems time and time again.

I am happy! I will sleep tonight as will the French players I am sure!

oh CRAP….. France have scored…. 😡 😡 😡 😡

COME ON TOGO…….. 😉

Killing me! 😀 😀 😀