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[Rebel_with_a_cause]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030928/241/5es2s.html

[HereSince1628]

1. So will Poland have the next blackout? (tinfoil alert)

Just wondering about the order of troop strength and the order of major blackouts...

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

3. Remember how hot and heavy John Howard was to invade Iraq?

Howard now says that although Australia has only sent 800 soldiers to Iraq, he sent the creme of his military crop, so, in effect, using a weighted system, Australia's 800 military might is actually the equivalent of America's 140,000 using the formula that 1 Australian soldier = 175 American soldiers.

<sarcasm off>

[jcgadfly]

2. The coalition of the purchased

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[RobertSeattle]

4. What a "spin" Graphic

With the "cut" in the US bar.

[wryter2000]

5. Good eye, Robert

That graph is utterly and totally bogus because of that cut. A simple listing of the numbers would be far more accurate.

[rock]

7. Yep. Regarding the "cut" bar

It would run off the right side of the screen if not "cut". Like this:

USA----XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BritainXXXXXXXXXXXX
Italy--XXX
...

[wryter2000]

6. Good grief

The related story talks about a furore (sic) over US troops being there.