Greg's View of Todays News - 01/30/2009

• Bush shoe attack spawns artwork

  A sculpture of an enormous bronze-coloured shoe has been erected in Iraq to honour the journalist who threw his shoes at ex-US President George W Bush. The sofa-sized artwork was formally unveiled in Tikrit, hometown of late Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein.
  COMMENT: Now, that's modern ART!

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• Iraq ends licence of US security firm Blackwater

  Iraq will not renew the operating licence of controversial US security firm Blackwater Worldwide, an interior ministry official has said.
  
  - maybe they should bring in the French Foreign Legion!

  • Critics have repeatedly accused Blackwater of having a cowboy mentality and a shoot-first-ask-questions-later approach when carrying out security duties in Iraq.
    • The reports of these 'mercenaries' killing Iraqi civilians during the last five years have shown them to be above the law under the Bush regime. It is encouraging to see the Iraqui government finally stepping in to get rid of these cowboys - it is a sign of proper governance by the Iraq government - post by gnaylor

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