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Bush's tangled arms deal
By selling weapons to "moderate" states, Bush would again be playing puppet master and jerking around the Middle East with disastrous consequences.
By Gary Kamiya [2007-08-14]
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  • arms to all in the middle east (except Iran)

    Liken it to pouring gasoline onto a conflagration.

    -- mcqball
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    Tuesday, August 14, 2007 04:51 PM

  • Amity, CJG Clark

    Yeah, I know that Israel is the only Jewish state in the region and in fact the world, and I know that it was used in a sentence following the name. I was pointing out the fact that its use was gratuitious. Distinction of its religious base was not a necessity in the sentence it was used in, nor was there a need there to distinguish it as different from its neighbours at that point in the narrative. I very much doubt that a single person reading the article did not know that Israel was the "Jewish State" and if the assumption was that there would be, then a matching assumption would have to be that those readers were so uninformed that they would not also know that the majority of the surrounding countries are Muslim.

    -- AnthonyB
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    Tuesday, August 14, 2007 09:19 PM

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