Eurosport has a pretty decent rundown on yellow jersey contenders. Intriguing to me is Heras, who dragged Armstrong up the mountains last year, and reportedly was asked to slack off a couple of times.
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Today’s reason: violence over diplomacy.
In the continuing story of this administration’s culture — that values pride over prudence — pervading the military complex, a senior British officer reported that the US requested an attack on an Iranian incursion on disputed Iraqi territory without considering diplomacy.
The incident began last July when Revolutionary Guards pushed about a kilometre into Iraq to the north and east of Basra in an apparent attempt to reoccupy territory which they claimed belonged to Iran.
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The Iran-Iraq incident lasted around a week and was resolved by a telephone conversation between Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, and Kamal Kharrazi, his Iranian counterpart, British officials said.
“It did look rather nasty at the time,” one official said. “But we were always confident it was a mistake and could be resolved by diplomatic means. We got in touch with Baghdad and said, ‘Don’t do anything silly; we are talking to the Iranians.’ “
I was waiting to get a handful of shaves under my belt before I spoke my piece about the Mach 3 Power from Gillette©, but Consumer Whore wrote a decent review that summarizes my feelings so I’ll let it speak for me.
