Stalins Organ
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As in 3 litre containers of "ready to drink" labelled "Fruit Juice" - often with an "apple base", and various brands & flavours.
Over here Fruit Juice" means it has to be 100% fruit juice - although it can be "reconstituted" from "concentrate" that is usually imported.
There are also "fruit drinks" which have to have at least 5% content of fruit juice (I think) but are otherwise sugar, water & flavourings, and "cordial" is generally something that lacks any actual fruit content at all and can come ready to drink, concentrated or dried.
So I was being virtuous and drinking only the fruit juice.
But it's usually 10-15% sugar by weight (grams per 100ml serve on the labels), so a 300 ml glass can have 30-45 grams of sugar - 1-1.5 oz's, or 6-9 teaspoons. Have 2-3 of those a day and your sugar intake skyrockets!
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I lost 5 kilos in a month when I stopped drinking commercial fruit juices with no othe changes to diet or (lack of) exercise - doesn't matter where the sugar comes from, we just get too much of it.
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Hansen may well be right about the source of the Marine's confusion.
which still begs the point of what to do about it.
the idea that the war in Iraq is "won" and a stable democracy is installed is laughable. Anyone who is peddling such ideas is either stupid or thinks that their audience is.........and if their audience is the American population then from Hansen's statement above they may be right!
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Aff - yeah that's true.....and how much good is it doing "us" to be in that popsition?
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While it seems superficially attractive suchregimes have always ended up making hte US look pretty bad - Chile, Nicaragua, Cuba, etc.....and I'm pretty sure the long term effects need to be looked at alongside teh potential short term gains - for example it would make hte US the supporters of the warlords, adn a target for the inevitable religous extremist opposition - and we all know where that leds to!
No - while Afghanistan might not be as closely related to the War on Terror as it once obviously was, the connection there is still clear - Taliban support AQ, AQ are still determined to attack the USA and their leaders have not been bought to justice.
Such a simple connection should be easy for the spin-meisters to pump up IMO.
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I don't actualy "fault" the Marine at all - he knows what he knows and doesn't kn...er...no..let's not go there.......the question is why is it that what he knows so screwed up?
So Gunner yes I get your point and Dave sympathise with yours, and still wonder if anyone is going to do anythign about giving the troops a good reason to fight?
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Good grief - talk about getting it the wrong way around:
"The Iraq war was different from this war," a US marine in Afghanistan's Helmand province told a BBC reporter recently.
"That was definitely a war on terrorism. Here I don't know. No-one even mentions 9/11 any more. That's why I went to Iraq." how screwed up is that? Has the US forgotten who actually launched 9/11, and where they were based??:confused:
(from a BBC article)
Is a bit of a history refresher needed for the troops on the ground?
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Play on astro-turf and be done....
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Dunno if they're on the new ones, but if you look out across the wing of older Boeing 737's you might see a line of little tabs that do exactly the same thing at 600 mph - they "energise to boundary flow" - been around on them since at least 1980 or before.
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Helthcare is like sex and oxygen - only important when you're not getting any.
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?? I've never heard that as a reason for the war - certainly the Iranians thought Iraqi's Shi'a were repressed and should rise up (aloong with al the otehr Shi'a in the region of course....).....but I haven't ever seen any actual revolt given as a cause for the war.
Saddam expected Iranian Sunni's to join him too of course, and we all know how successful that idea was....
but what happened when Iranians did start defeating hte Iraqi army, and occupy Iraqi territory? The Iraqi resolve actually stiffened, foreign aid poured in, and we all know the history.
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didn't Iraq think it could invade Iran with impunity during Irans turmoil...only tio find the Iranians dislikes Iraq more than they disliked each other?
I'd suggest that Iraq might find similar attitudes in response.
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Probably still too complicated for him.
Aff - it looks like there's more than 1.
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Bulgaria didn't get any German hulls until mid-late 1944. While it's possible they were handed clapped out B and C models, I think it's extremely unlikely.
I'm sure the4 ones actually sold to them were just fine, but I'd guess the Heer left behind bits of junk like every retreating army in history has, and/or they had some captured examples transfered from Soviet service.
Here's some more pictures including a couple of this variant - 1 is as already noted in this thread, but there's another in a field that seems to be a different locatino, and the 1 by het 2 Stugs is open topped so apepars to be a 3rd vehicle?
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Sgt Joch - point taken.
I dont' think the comparisons with SK or SV are relevant tho - the proximate threat is not military - Iraq is not facing invasion/war with another sovereign state supported by a rival superpower - it is facing internal political disord.
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the points posted above are seelctive quoting of hte article & give an entirely false imrpesion of what hte Colonel was saying IMO.
Here's something else from it:
Yet despite all their grievous shortcomings noted above, ISF military capability is sufficient to handle the current level of threats from Sunni and Shiite violent groups. Our combat forces’ presence here on the streets and in the rural areas adds only marginally to their capability while exposing us to attacks to which we cannot effectively respond.
Give a different picture to that painted above IMO.
His point is neatly encapsulated by that paragraph - for all the shortcomings and limitations of the GOI & ISF, US presence there is no longer useful - it doesn't actually help any more.
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I imagine it would have been an early version with the short 75 & they didnt' have any spare German 75's to put in it?
aff yyou got it wtrong - sitting there fore 30 years and then NOT getting steamrolled.....by the turkish army.......who the f*** would want to sit in a tank hull for 30 years?!!
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You've got more patience than me to wait for them all to load!
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Dunno about that 1 in particular, but there's some photos linked here to dug in Pz 4's & T34's along the Bulgarian border with turkey put there as fortifications in the cold war - some are shown dug out, some still in place - no odd turrets on the P-4's tho - they all have original German ones.
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Not to mention "MIA" gives a good conspiracy story.......were MIA's part of the argument for invading Iraq 2nd time around? I don't recall .....
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The "upgraded" him from dead to MIA then to Missing/captured.......looks like they got it right the first time!
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Well technically the American Military does/did use the metric system so that answer Willhammer, is right out.
NASA isn't the military, so it's right back in
How does a hawser keep a boat balanced?
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Conceivably ropes, cables, etc could literally be holding it together in the same manner we are probably familiar with for the ol' "stringbag" aircraft up to and including some modern ones.
If one broke while under strain it might result in structural failure.
I'm sure the investigation will reveal the problem tho.