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Baghdad Zoo Wants Animals

Critter News

It makes me sick thinking about the animals already there (numbering 1,500 including lions and tigers.). Tags: zoos iraq. It's bad enough to send animals to zoos, but to a zoo in Baghdad??

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On Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS

Animal Person

Consider this: Every month, it takes $12 billion to fund America's involvement in the Iraq War. Corwin tells the story of the Maasai of Kenya, whose culture involved disdain for and slaughter of lions. "What does the future hold for the members of the Hundred Heartbeat Club?

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Should is not a Solution

10,000 Birds

The Iraq War was a demonstration of the most dangerous and beguiling aspect of the should – the belief that what should be is so obvious that a nudge will make it so. Invade… I’m sorry, liberate Iraq and we’ll be welcomed with flowers and democracy will spring forth. Those tasked with the how need the should.

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