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stevo:
it's interesting to wander back in after moving and other such....thanks.
i am not sure if arguments for immediate withdrawal are anything more than ethical arguments, really. if the war was launched under false pretenses--which it was--then....as a practical matter, i do not know enough about what is actually happening in iraq (none of us do...such is the nature of "information" about the war in the mainstream press in this degenerate post-thatcher world) to feel like i can make a coherent judgment about when to withdraw. i think ethically the americans are obliged to get out. but this administration is a bit--um---ethics challenged, and so.
it is obvious that the americans have made quite a mess of things:
it is amazing to me, however--really amazing--that the administration can and has used such evidence of its own incompetence as has surfaced to legitimate the war itself, brushnig aside the legion of problems that the false pretenses which they floated to justify it have and continue and will continue to generate.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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