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i just heard cheney's attempt to assimilate even more confirmation of the status of the "case" for invading iraq:
well, hussein did not have wmds.
but he was intent on having the sanctions regime lifted,
and then would have intended to get them.
that means cheney is now legitimating war on the basis of intent to have intent.
following this logic, it should be ok to kill your neighbor because you think that he might at some future point have the intent to have the intent to do you some harm.
you might feel that this proactive killing makes your world safer.
and you would be able to make that argument to whomever will listen from jail.
because you--unlike the administration from the viewpoint of its supporters at least----function in a situation circumscribed by law.
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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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