Neen, ik keur die zelfgemaakte Qassam en Katyusha raketten van de Islamitische verzetsbeweging Hamas zeker niet goed. Maar denkt u niet dat u nu wat overdrijft?
Tag archieven: oorlog
90 jaar Wapenstilstand
Vandaag is het precies 90 jaar geleden dat er een einde kwam aan de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Op 11 november 1918 werd een wapenstilstand gesloten tussen het inmiddels ingestorte Duitse keizerrijk en de Geallieerden. In Ieper, waar tijdens de oorlog van 1914 tot 1918 een half miljoen doden vielen, wordt een grote herdenkingsdag gehouden.
Bush on Iraq: It’s never been “stay the course”
On ABC’s This Week, President Bush told host George Stephanopoulos that the strategy in Iraq was “never stay the course.” A look back seems to suggest elsewise.
US soldiers are sick of it
American soldiers also are beginning to suffer injuries from a silent and pernicious weapon material of U.S. origin—depleted uranium. The Department of Defense says depleted uranium is powerful and safe, and not that worrisome. A shell coated with depleted uranium pierces a tank like a hot knife through butter, exploding on impact into a charring …
Tony Blair – Troops should be out of Iraq by 2008
Tony Blair set a 16-month limit for keeping British troops in Iraq yesterday as he admitted for the first time that they would be a “provocation” if they stayed too long. It was British policy to “withdraw progressively” when Iraq’s own security forces were able to take over. Quoting from a statement by Gen George …
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North Korea: Sanctions are declaration of war
North Korea said Tuesday the United Nations effectively declared war on the country when it imposed sanctions for the North’s nuclear test. North Korea wants “peace but is not afraid of war,” the North’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.