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09:54 - Thank you for noticing
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I only have one comment regarding this Der Spiegel article, linked by LGF:
"The fourth plane, according to bin al-Shaibah's questioning, should have hit the Capitol, the U.S. parliament ... U.S. authorities long suspected that it should have hit the White House. Only bin al-Shaibah's statement corrected the error," the magazine reported.
You know, it's funny-- I don't seem to ever recall any American, whether news anchor or redneck-in-the-street, refer to some other country's legislative body as "The German Capitol".
(I know how the "Russian White House" sounds, but that's what they call it, isn't it?)
Likewise, they keep saying things like "Defense Minister Rumsfeld". I have yet to hear anybody refer to a European politician as a "secretary".
So how come Americans know what a Parliament is, but Germans have to have "Capitol" explained to them? Who's more internationally conscious again?
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Brian Tiemann
