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if you cant understand the absurd position the americans put themselves in simply by invading iraq--and then exacerbated by screwing up at nearly every step--because it still seems like the only plan they had was developed under teh assumption that wolfowitz was correct and that the americans would be greeted with smiles and flowers---then there is really nothing to be said.
you act as though folk were unaware that the americansupported saddam hussein's coup d'etat, supported his killing of iraqi communist party members, supported him against iran....you seem unaware that the americans amounted to a colonial presence well before bushwar got underway...
maybe try thinking about the american action in iraq as an occupation and you'd get further toward understanding the problem than you would trying to think about it in terms of the present absurd propaganda managed by the administration to sell its war to an increasingly hostile public at home, and a fractured, embittered population in iraq.
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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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