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On the 27th October 312 AD the battle of Milvian Bridge was fought near Rome. The two men contending for control of Rome and the Empire were Constantine, who controlled Gaul, England and parts of Germany and Maxentius, who controlled Italy, Spain and Africa.
It happens the two were brothers in law.
The day before the monumental and pivotal battle, Constantine saw a flaming cross in the sky, taking I as an omen, he had his men put a cross on their shields and banners.
Full of strength at what their commander had seen, Constantine’s men won the battle. Maxentius drowned crossing a bridge over the Tiber.
Rome would soon be unified under one ruler (only Licentius remained in Constantine’s way.)
Constantine would spend the ret of his reign Christianising his subjects.
He converted on his deathbed, becoming the first Christian Emperor, in 337 AD.

On the 18th September AD 96 another of those dreadful Roman Emperors was done in. This time it was Domitian. His father had been the great military commander Vespasian, who started work on the Colosseum. Domitian succeeded his equally good brother, Titus, but when he fell ill, he left orders to his attendants to let him starve.
Domitian was a sadist and as he grew older he lost his good looks and athletic frame. He took his brother’s daughter as a mistress and executed a man after he had taken his wife from him, because he had joked about it with Titus. His wife hatched a plot with another who also feared for his life, using other members of the Emperor’s exasperated staff.
The assassination came days after Domitian had celebrated his 15th anniversary as Emperor.
The man who would do the deed was Stephanus, the steward to  the Emperor’s niece, Domitilla. Days before he began wearing a sling, feigning an injury. On the 18th September he placed a dagger in it and at a good moment pulled it out, stabbing Domitian in the groin. The two wrestled for their lives, until four more plotters came in and stabbed the Emperor a further seven times.
He was succeeded by a 65 year old Nerva, who was elected by the Senate and who died of natural causes. He was the first of the Five Good Emperors.

Many of them seem to have been unhinged. I think it was in the blood.

@rjpeters70:

Underrated by whom?  I think a lot of professional military historians (Tim Hoyt at Naval War College for one) see Caesar as one of the finest ever, far better than Alexander or Napolean. When you look at the number of people and provinces he defeated, it is staggering.  Then you compare that with the number of casualties his forces took (damn, damn few), and it is breathtaking.

He is on my short list of best.

Hoped it would be sooner. I thought the first two books were excellent. The last time I checked his site they didn’t have the date posted yet.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11022085/
And after all the great photo ops below Che blows it by offending the Greens?

Naah!  All is forgiven.  Just like BJ Clinton who promised the Blacks(Minority representation in his Admin) and screwed the Blacks(No go.), promised the Gays(Don’t ask, don’t tell.) and screwed the Gays(Yeah, that worked.), promised women(an Equal society) and blew them wads(Equal as long as the women were homely, naive, fat and or ugly and on their knees in front of him.)

Some Maryland stooge went to met Chavez. Pres. Chavez promised cheap heating oil to the poor of Maryland.
-Yeah, who’s gonna decide who gets on that list?

So Jesse Jackson went to meet and praise President Chavez.
Cindy Sheehan went to meet and praise the President of Venezuela.
Oh, and while she was there she did a good thing.  She said she was gonna challenge US Senator Diane Feinstein(D-CA) in the Democratic primary for Ms. F.'s seat in the Senate. Now, if she’ll just have the courage to say it in America…

Recall Bill Clinton bashing America while he was in Europe …every time since his de-election.
Oh, and while John "F"ing Kerry was in Davos, Switzerland last week he called for a filibuster of Supreme Court Justice  nominee Sam Alito(as heard on Mike Savage.) Though I didn’t hear a peep about it on the big news shows. Guess they want to keep it in their pocket for J"F"ingKerry2008 !!

It will be even messier if Turkey is part of the EU when this takes place.  However I think this should resolve itself before that happens as it doesn’t look like the EU is letting Turkey join anytime soon.

It isn’t certain what will happen with regards to greater Kurdistan (Kurdish areas in Iraq, Turkey, Iran), although it could certainly get ugly there.

Any Kurds in Syria?  I’m not sure, and if so what that would imply as well.

Nevertheless, this goes back a long ways to when the British occupied Iraq (taken from the Ottoman Empire in WWI if I am not mistaken).  It is always a difficult thing to go back to the pre-colonial (and pre Ottoman empire) nations and boundaries as often they were not clearly marked or identifiable.  Besides, there is oil in N. Iraq…and everyone wants a peice of that!

@Xi:

Peter Arnett was seen by some as sympathetic to the Iraqi regime in both this war and the 1991 Gulf War, when he reported from Baghdad for CNN….

"…I think American policy and strategy is the weakest when it comes to the Iraqi people. The U.S. administration is concerned with the possibility of killing civilians, because the international community is very concerned about the Iraqi people. President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly…

"…For that reason, the Pentagon keeps saying that the civilian casualties, particularly in Baghdad in the last three or four days, at the market places – the Pentagon says – well they are Iraqi missiles that land amongst the people. They keep saying that, but of course the Iraqi government says they are clearly cruise missiles that hit the population…

Ok, so what is wrong about the statements?
The first includes an “i think” at the beginning and an “if-then with present and future” combination at the end? ANything wrong with it?
The second… well, the Pentagon also says that the shrapnels of US missiles found there were brought there by Iraqi officials… and he gives both sides version: is that bad journalism?