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Chinese Whispers - Why has the Bush administration stopped fighting Beijing's human rights abuses? (Slate)

"It's one of the oldest tricks in Washington, and sometimes it still works: Slip a stinker into the news cycle on Friday and hope that the weekend flushes it down. In this case, the stinker was the Bush administration's March 11 decision to forgo a resolution condemning China at the U.N. Human Rights Commission. This was the first time since 1998, and only the second time since the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, that a U.S. administration had gone to Geneva as a member of the commission and failed to take the Chinese to task"

The 10 Plagues of Iraq (Winds of Change.NET)

"Blood: The purges, the disapperances, the wars Saddam started. Over a million Iraqis dead, a tide of blood that stains all of Iraq's waters."