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there is a level of bushworld that is just funny
that bush would enjoy having a talisman like hussein's gun around is funny.
the decision to stuff a matador bandana down the front of bush's very military jump suit for the photo op on the aircraft carrier--you know, the picture that would have been everywhere, in every commercial, had anything about the iraq war been rational---had the "mission" actually been accomplished---that is funny.
the decision made by the americans to cover up picasso's "guernica" during powell's sad dog and pony show before the un security council in the run-up to colonial war---that was, in a twisted way, funny.
what you can assemble by connecting these and other lovely symbolic moments---if you see in them moments of unwitting confession on the part of the administration concerning the nature of their worldview---is not funny.
could an entire country have been conned into a war motivated by the desire to castrate saddam hussein? what more obvious confirmation of that motive could you ask for than the mounting on a wall off the signfier of masculine power, hussein's gun?
flintstone thinking for a flintstone world.
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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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