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why?
the americans invaded iraq, lebell.
whether you like it or not, many of the folk fighting in iraq understand that as a colonial occupation. they understand the elections as an american fraud. why should they understand it otherwise? seriously--why should they?
i understand that, sitting in the us watching things unfold from afar, you might be inclined to attribute other motives to this farce--but these attributions rely on very different conditions (sitting in front of a tv or reading information on the net or in print from the comfort of your home in a place that has not been invaded by another power, one that in fact has talked itself up as liberating you while in fact it has found itself bogged down in an ongoing, bloody war--not insurgency--a war, the same war, which has not ended and which shows no signs of ending.)
of course this whole situation is the fault of george w bush and the neocons within his administration who developed and supported the line that lead into this mess.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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