US invasion proposal shocks MPs

he Dutch parliament was shocked by a US legislative proposal giving an official green light to a US invasion of the Netherlands should it be deemed necessary to free US citizens from the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
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The government of President George W Bush and the US Congress is fiercely opposed to the court, claiming it violates US sovereignty.
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This country must be scaring the shit out of the reast of the world. Bush feel's that he can invade any country he wants to, any time he wants to, but trying a U.S. soldier violates US soveriengty? What about everyone else's soveriegnty? There is only one rogue nation.

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'We Were Better Off Under the Russians'
The Allies are still on the hunt in Afghanistan—and the locals aren't happy

The Afghan commander laughed at the way the Americans were going about their work. U.S. troops, he said, were obsessed with finding caches of Taliban documents to help track down their fugitive enemies. The commander's friend explained the mirth by pulling out his own identification card: a small passport-like book made by the Taliban and authorized with a Taliban stamp. It was issued April 16, long after the fall of that regime. It's a legitimate document, and the man isn't an enemy—the local government doesn't have money for stationery, so decrees and papers are still being printed on leftover Taliban stock.
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