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that possibility permanently exists, from any number of places---in part because the international weapons trade is so indiscriminate in where it sells to---you combine that with the looseness of usage of the word terrorist and you have a logic that would legitimate bushwar on everybody who has wmd-type systems at any point, and says nothing about anyone in particular at any particular time.
there was an interesting poll taken just after the start of bushwar--something like 70% (i dont remember the exact number--sorry) of respondants thought that iraqis had been on the planes that flew into the trade center etc.... the results were puzzling. the pollsters--i dont remember who they were, but only that the organization was not gallop etc.--concluded that people would rather lie to themselves than admit they have been lied to.
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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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