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this is ridiculous--look, it is pretty obvious that the car stopped at the chcekpoint and got strafed anyway.
it is obvious that the americans simply fucked up.
and it is also obvious that this happens enough that patterns begin to suggest themselves.
if you look at the record in terms of fatalities for journalists who are not of the american press pool, then another pattern begins to suggest itself.
it is equally obvious that lying about it in the press helps nothing--rather than allay suspicions, this kind of action generates them, multiplies them, gives them fertile ground in which to grow.
what i really dont understand--and this i write as my way of checking out of this thread--is why it is that support for war in iraq seems to go along with an absolute, unquestioning support for the military.
i dont understand how the two things go together.
you can support the war and still be critical of how particular aspects of it go.
but not in the right's america, apparently.
i dunno folks--i keep thinking that in another time, another place, this kind of attitude informed the cheering throngs that greeted those coming back from expeditions in quest of lebensraum...
which would be of a piece with cheering the deaths of people from the left
of blaming left journalists for their own murders.
it is really repellent.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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