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seaver---the swift boat jokers do make the left look pretty good.
as for the moveon adverts, they have been gone over again and again, and are trotted out to relativize actions taken by the right on a routine basis.
it is tedious.
the bigger point is the one unaddressed:
to whom does anyone who opposed the war in vietnam owe an apology exactly?
what puts the right in a position to be moral arbiter?
because the right has chosen to retreat from interacting with the empirical world into a moralized hallucination?
in this, you just follow bush--juxtapose the speech he gave before the un with that of annan, who immediately preceded it--moral discourse as lever into delerium. ...that is of course his choice, as it might be yours, should you follow this "logic"--but opting for a moral discourse does not put you in a position to be an arbiter of actions past and present...
so to whom does anyone who opposed vietnam--or the present farce in iraq---owe an apology exactly?
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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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