Still, with the exception of the LG combo playing BH100, none of the major players have shown any plans to change sides, so until they do, prepare for a prolonged stalemate before this war is truly over.

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Tom House, the Legion's head of pensions, says this is not just about the war pensioners in Harrow and is unsympathetic over the council's financial dilemma.

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But no one who is a student of the tug of war between open and closed systems thinks this battle is over.

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While this may not a statement that the "war is over, " it could suggest that a return to conflict is unlikely.

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This is only partly down to anger over the war.

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Are you concerned that this is going to become the new front in the war over the Affordable Care Act?

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He knows he has to pull out all the stops if, at this very late stage, he is to win over opinion behind war.

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All of this last area is also claimed by Argentina, which went to war with Britain in 1982 over the Falklands.

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So let us put aside, for this purpose at least, a disagreement over the war in Iraq and unify to defeat terrorism around an agenda that is just and humane, as their agenda is unjust and inhumane.

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Now, that statement is not going to please anti-war activists who really want to go to the mat over this.

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