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it seems that the attempt to derive wider implicatsion from this single shell have dropped away evenin the conservative press. these attempts seemed to me ridiculous from the outset.
the logical problems with trying to use this story to vindicate the bushwar are legion, overwhelming---i imagine that the folks at the helm would have loved--just loved--to find somewhere, at some level, a vindication of their actions in principle (it would certainly take the focus off the corrosive torture stories....) and would have happily grabbed this story and ran with it had it held up to any scrutiny. it is interesting to see the conservative press being used as a lab for media trial balloons---and a bit depressing to watch people take those ballooons as other than they are.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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