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i continue to find it strange that the question of this campaign has been diverted onto this footage. while i agree that it appears to be a war crime, that appearance comes with all the limits/problems of any footage--it isolates particular sequences of events from what preceded and conditioned them, so you are in a position of not really knowing what you are seeing even as it unfolds in front of you.
remember the rodney king case? the defense argument that king adopted "the bullet posture" as he was getting the shit beat out of him? that "bullet posture" was read a threatening--only possible in the context of film-world.
the bigger question is about the campaign itself--what i posted above remains unaddressed here and a problem insofar as making judgements from press accounts is concerned. but the "battle of fallujah" seems to have been less than a ringing success, insofar as "crushing the insurgents" is concerned....
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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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