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Last year a policy paper is said to have circulated in Beijing, proposing Chinese military intervention to bring about regime change in North Korea.

One of the finalists in the contest, Michael Stinson, is also the creator of a Web animation that depicts President Bush and Vice President Cheney in Nazi uniforms and highlights alleged Bush family connections to the Nazi regime.

It should be remembered that the Allies materially supported the former apartheid regime for many years, as also they did for Saddam Hussein, to the extent of supplying the chemical precursors of the weapons used to gas the inhabitants of Hallabja.

However, he went on to add that the two countries must come up with a (nuclear) restraint regime, according to Dawn.

"And so many of them go to school in the summer now, too, and they have a workout regimen then too, so it's hard."I supported the overthrow of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and continue to support, in concert with other countries, the dismantling of the al Qaeda network.

Of course, Lileks fails to mention the many Western pals and visitors who aided Saddam's regime and made an Iraqi uprising impossible: special envoy Rumsfeld in '83, Reagan/Bush in '87-'88, Baghdad boys Bob Dole and Alan Simpson in early '90, and Halliburton in the late '90s.

Mr. Babar also urged an investigation into what he claimed was a “hijacking by the regime” when two domestic Pakistan International Airlines flights to Islamabad were diverted.

Sunnis ruled Iraq for centuries and dominated the country under Saddam's regime, filling high-ranking positions and reaping economic benefits.

Researchers believe that this Spartan regime controls seizures by creating ketone bodies in the blood, which are burned by brain cells in the place of glucose.

In 1998, Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith, and Paul Wolfowitz joined Perle in signing a letter to President Clinton demanding regime change in Iraq.

And you knew, just as surely, as you read about Sparta, about its humorless militarism, geriatric regime, and deep antipathy to democracy, that these were bad guys.

Worse, when you put a car through a stop-start regime, it is at its most polluting.

I never used it, but it was another sign of "special" status in a regime that prohibited its citizens from owning a copier.

Thus, in the tradition of Thaddeus Stevens, twentieth-century nationalists recognize the need for a strong national government to protect individuals against abusive state governments, but often ignore the threat posed by a monstrous central regime unchecked by competing power centers.

In these pompous and hysterical charades, renowned Old Bolsheviks "confessed" to being career-long enemies of the regime (and to other self-evidently ridiculous charges).

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