The enemy of my enemies is my friend???

Newsflash....it's official, the people in charge, the ones making the decisions for the American forces in Iraq have officially LOST THEIR MINDS!!!

Latest reports are that the U.S is now arming Sunnis in Iraq to battle their old Al Qaeda allies...who are now their enemies. The thought goes like this...

"The enemy of my enemies is my friend"

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The Daily Show did a brilliant analysis on this by looking at who are their the U.S enemies, hence who could be their friends...went like this

Enemy of the US * Their Enemy/US Friend
Al Qaeda * Sunni Insurgents
Sunni Insurgents * Shia Death Squads
Shia Death Squads * Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al-Sadar
Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al-Sadar * Al Qaeda

Click here for the Daily Show clip

So obviously anyone who is an enemy, could also be a friend....just one thought comes to mind...In the past, didn't the US use this same technique for little groups like...The Taliban fighting the Russians, Saddam Hussain fighting Iran....oh, and Iran for figting Saddam Hussain...does anyone else think this may end in tears???

Pro Choice V Pro Life

I had a bit if a wake up call today reading the Newstalk ZB website and seeing this article...

"The number of abortions performed in New Zealand has increased slightly.

The latest Statistics New Zealand figures show 17,930 terminations were performed in the year ended December 2006. That is 400 more than in 2005, and follows a decreases of 3.7 percent between 2004 and 2005.Women aged between 20 and 24 had more abortions than other age groups. The median age of women having an abortion has remained stable over the past 20 years, at around 25-years-old."

It would seem that we are so flippant with numbers and statistics now that we can say that nearly 18,000 potential New Zealanders have been terminated and not think twice about it, well today I thought about it.

Check out the statistics here and here from the Statistics NZ website.

Long story short it says that since 1991 244,211 potential New Zealanders have been terminated.

What is the downstream effect of that, it's been over 30 years since abortion became legal, how may of those aborted babies would themselves be having babies now? What would our population be? How would our economy be with all those extra taxpayers, entrepreneurs, business people, inventors never experiencing life?

A quarter of a million people since 1991, if you say it quick enouch...it doesn't sound that big does it....it's only the approximate population of the Waikato.