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i was surprised at how little bush actually said.
it seems like the speech--as a campaign rather than policy event---indicates that the bush people have decided they cannot argue their case, but instead that they are interested in trying to shore up support amongst sectors of the population who are inclined--for reasons that i will never understand--to support him.
i find it astonishing that bush is trying to maintain the position that torture was carried out by a "Few bad apples" in a context that indicates quite clearly now that the torture was a matter of policy. but i suppose that it would be unreasonable to expect a mea culpa in a campaign speech.
i do not think that the iraq war is about terrorism. it is not entirely about oil. i think that the clearest indication of what prompted this unfortunate adventure can be derived from reading the mission statement of the project for a new american century.
the debates in the un about the bush-blair exit plan are interesting. i do not think that it will pass in its present form. but we'll see.
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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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