Yonhap News is reporting that two Koreans civilians, in Iraq to help build power plants and transmission towers, were shot and killed by “suspicious assailants” in the area around Tikrit. Another two were wounded. The victims were working for Omu Power Company, and according to a source at the Korean Embassy in Baghdad, the two had failed to notify the Embassy of their activities in Iraq (other Koreans in the Baghdad area have been moved to a safe place).
A terrible tragedy, made all the worse because these guys weren’t even soldiers - they were there helping to restore power in a land ravaged by war and criminal mismanagement.
Oh, and the Hankyoreh has this piece on how Iraqi “resistance forces” will launch even fiercer attacks on those nations participating with the United States in Iraq. Yeah, I’m sure they will, just as long as we have papers like the Hankyoreh showing such steely resolve in the face of adversity.
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now this is what i have been talking about.
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, ‘n’ how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, ‘n’ how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they’re forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, ‘n’ how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, ‘n’ how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
How many years can a mountain exist
Before it’s washed to the sea?
Yes, ‘n’ how many years can some people exist
Before they’re allowed to be free?
Yes, ‘n’ how many times can a man turn his head,
Pretending he just doesn’t see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
america and the world would be a better place if america had bob dylan as president
oops why not
if arnie made it to calif and ronnie made it to the white house…
Hey gabriel,
I can’t even stand to read the lyrics to that song… What a load of pompous cliches. If you can sit through that old P, P and M crap you should be tied to a chair and forced to listen to “It’s A Hard Rain That’s Gonna Fall” 100 times. That should kill all your hippie-peace-love-dove-touchy-feely feelings and give you a “born to kill”, “Sympathy for the Devil” attitude. If that don’t it, listen to “In the Year 2525″ at least 25 times. That’ll leave you brain dead.
Hey, the Marmot (his right-wing politics aside) likes Dylan… leave Bob alone
Sorry about that, but my older sister used to listen to “God on Our Side” over and over and over. It was the slow, long, tedious Joan Baez version, where Joan hits high notes so grating that fingernails on a chalkboard sound pleasant in comparison. I’ve had violent reactions to Dylan ever since. It’s worse than Vogon poetry.
If you can find a copy of Dave Barry’s “Book of Bad Songs,” I think you’ll find that there are four or five pages devoted strictly to Bob Dylan, so I’m not alone.
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JAN 9/03 TOPICS INCL: Masterful analysis of reunification, Future of U.S. Forces Korea; South Koreans killed in Iraq; China & Korea fight over ancient history; Josh Marshall on Korean diplomacy; Riots; Bruce Cumings attacks; Hunger strikes; North Korea…