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The arrival of nine B-52 Super Fortress bombers at RAF Fairford overnight gives a clear indication of the timing of the long-forecast US strike on Saddam's Iraq and the kind of operation that President Bush has in mind. The B-52s are veterans of the Cold War. They carry huge payloads of conventional and satellite-guided bombs, JDAMs, and air-launched cruise missiles. The stationing of the planes at Fairford signalled the overture to the air campaign over Iraq in January 1991 and Nato bombing of Kosovo and Serbia in 1999. In the Gulf War in 1991, the tons of iron bombs dropped...

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MIDI - HOME ON THE RANGE Oh, give me a drone so where terrorists roam I can blow the hell out of their car Like video games…we'll engulf them in flames They'll be frightened wherever they are Drones, drones move down range The coordinates I'm gonna change They won't even hear…as the bomb's coming near Then we'll all do high fives at the bar Some think it is mean…we fly over unseen And we send them a little surprise It drops from the sky…all their plans go awry And they won't make it to the bazaar Drones, drones move...

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has told his cabinet that the policy of "containing" Saddam Hussein has failed and that the Iraqi dictator must be stopped. Mr Blair told ministers that Iraq had continued to build weapons of mass destruction, as he held talks ahead of Tuesday's emergency recall of Parliament. In a two-hour cabinet session, the prime minister briefed fellow ministers about the dossier of evidence against Iraq which will be unveiled on Tuesday morning. Some ministers have publicly expressed concern about possible military action, but Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the cabinet was clear about the need to...

A Question of IntegrityMichael Rose and the American College of LouvainBy Brian Saint-PaulIt’s a sickening story. In one section of Goodbye, Good Men (pp. 73-78 of the Regnery Press edition), author Michael S. Rose pulls the curtain back on the moral corruption at the American College of Louvain, a U.S.-run seminary associated with the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.Here’s the gist of it: In 1999, a seminarian named Joseph Kellenyi transferred to Louvain from Mundelein Seminary in Illinois at the request of his bishop. There, he came into contact with the homosexual subculture that dominates many seminaries. Kellenyi, estimating...

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Above: This map shows how the boundaries would change under a new Mexican proposal that seeks to have the US withdraw to pre-1848 borders. WASHINGTON (BSNN Headline News)— Mexican President Vicente Fox yesterday presented President Bush with a stunning proposal aimed at prolonging “peaceful relations” between the US and Mexico. The 1-point proposal, which Fox handed Bush during their recent session at a Washington DC Chi Chi’s, is intended to be a comprehensive, long-term resolution of the many problems facing the two nations. The Mexican solution calls for a US withdrawal to pre-1848 borders. White House spokesman Hari Flascher...