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given the scale of yesterday's bombing, it hardly seems surprising that people would be upset and would demonstrate on that basis. i am not sure that it means anything in the grander scheme of things, however.
i have no particular assmumptions about alignments in iraq--i do not have any reason to believe that folk across the board aare as one either with or against whoever is reponsible for yesterday's attack.
i do find it a bit interesting that after the shi'a-lead coalition overwhelmingly trounced allawi---and his american backers at the same time in the elections---that the political situation in iraq has largely dropped away from being a focus of the american press--obviously the administration feels that it stood to gain pr wise more from the process than the outcome--i was not aware that the administrations views and those of the press were necessarily one--at any rate compare that with how this article is framed--taking up american discourse about cause, etc. i suspect there was a gap seperating how things happened on the ground from how ap reported it--but this is little more than a suspicion.
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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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