The recently broadcast NBC footage taken by an American journalist embedded with a Marines unit attacking Falluja was unambiguous.
"Whatever you ask, please do not ask why we "hate" you. Putting aside the simplistic and dichotomic nature of such a question -- "you're either with us or against us," your great leader says -- let me give you my straight answer: I don't."
He is (past tense can only be used with those of much humbler legacies) beyond in the expansive reach of his intellect, from opera to Islam, from literature to philosophy, and quite a lot in between.
There's the US (playing the drum, and acting-maestro), the EU (playing the violin), Russia (trying to play the flute) and, yes, the UN (playing the maestro's baton), in their respective order of relevance, and it aims at tackling the conundrum, other
While many media analysts are painstakingly discussing the PR war between Washington and Baghdad, few have absorbed the watershed that al-Jazeera has brought to the picture.
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