December 29th, 2005

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Red/Blue

One of the things you see in Iraq, you see all these soldiers, Marines, private contractors, and they’re all from the South, the greater South, the Mid-West, the Great Plains. And they all e-mail their families every single night about what’s going on. And so people in other parts of the country are far more cosmopolitan and sophisticated about what’s going on in Iraq now, than people on the two coasts of California and New York.
Robert Kaplan

Which explains how MSM can get the war in Iraq so intractably wrong and why it actually does not matter that much.

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Descriptions

Scanning the Toronto papers in the wake of the Boxing Day shooting it appears a) gang related, b) part of an ongoing battle, c) to have involved upto fifteen people.

Police are not, however, releasing descriptions of the suspects though,

“The source also said police have issued a border alert for the suspects, whose identities and descriptions were not released.”
the toronto sun

Hmmm…why would that be?

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