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you know, boo, there is an ignominious history--so far relatively small, but nonetheless--into which bush's performance around the war in iraq can be placed--johnson on the tonkin gulf, the maine incident (spanish-american war, cant remember the president)---the only space within which the relativization line you run above operates is conservative media-land.
what is amazing to me is that you--or anyone else--find that relavitization to be compelling, either historically or politically. it indicates a truly strange relation to the plausibility of one's own positions/arguments.
one that you didnt even make up for yourself.
what surprises me is bush's snese of impunity.
because there is no other motivation that can be used to explain such a surreal pronouncement.
must have been the air force jacket he was wearing--maybe it got him all dizzy in a very military kinda way.
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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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