Then too, aside from declaring that the peace agreement between the southern Sudanese and the Khartoum government must not be permitted to unravel, she offered no helpful advice on how to prevent that from occurring.

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Just before the Iraq war began, he brushed aside a suggestion from then Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki that several hundred thousand troops were needed to occupy Iraq.

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Aside from the obvious reason that the 22 existing top-level domains had been well picked over by then, this move was likely motivated, at least in part, by the seductive idea of making something out of nothing.

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