This week we speak to Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Cucullu, former US Special Forces Green Beret. We ask him to compare Iraq and Vietnam, surprise surprise they're different. He is the author of Separated at Birth: How North Korea became the Evil Twin.

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In BlogNews this week we look at the UN Environement report which Melaine Phillips has the right idea about. Read her take here.

More details on French nonsense and prosecutions of police officers can be found at Dhimmi Watch.

The Greenpeace story mentioned can be found on Tim Blair's blog

For more details of the rantings of a demented moonbat, head over to Little Green Footballs lgf: The Moonbat Monologues.

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