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i do not think the arguments for war were compelling.
and i have a deep contempt for the bush administration.
that said, it is not important to me if bush et al understand themselves to be acting in good faith--it changes nothing from a political viewpoint--the attempts to link that shell to anything wider were floated in the conservative press yesterday and then died away. i think it is because the arguments are so obviously specious that it made no sense to go further with them.
it really did look to me like a karl rove special, though--float a ridiculous story for a while, let it get coverage, wait a few days, retract it (often on p. 5 or 6 of the major daillies)--the pattern you saw with the claims that the clinton had vandalilzed the white house on the way out for example.
as for what the administration thinks about itself, again, it is completely irrelevant--in a monarchy, maybe it would matter--but in a democracy, even one a superficial as the american--this register of claim makes no difference.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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