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From Dutch teletext:

If the Netherlands reject another European treaty in a referendum, Dutch EU membership is in jeopardy. Says secretary of EU affairs Timmermans.

The bloke admits this sounds a lot like blackmail, but maintains "the second chance is the last chance".

Well, I'll be the first to remind him when we vote no again, just to make sure he can't swallow these words to create a third "chance" to force a new constitution down our throats.

Divide and prevail

Anglosphere

Are the US and Al-Qaeda bedfellows?

Al-Qaeda leaders sold out Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to the United States in exchange for a promise to let up in the search for Osama bin Laden, the slain leader's wife claimed in an interview with an Italian newspaper.

"I think a secret pact was struck whose immediate goal was his death," she told the newspaper. "In return, the American troops promised to ease, at least momentarily, their hunt for bin Laden."

Personally I think it's a load of bull. The true story here is probably as follows: Al-Qaeda sympathisers are getting cranky and divided because we are getting the good results (There has not been a terrorist attack on US soil for almost five years) while they are getting the bad results (free elections instead of Taliban and Baath, Zarqawi dead) in the war on terror.

In case Zarqawi's wife is making correct claims, good riddance President Bush. He promised not to negotiate with terrorists and the American electorate should hold him to that promise. On the other hand, if Al-Qaeda is indeed breaking apart, then perhaps Americans should give credit where credit is due and repeal the 22nd Amendment. (Or at a minimum keep Hillary out of the White House.)

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