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again, the leak in itself is not that interesting if it gets separated from context. personally, i think that what host is doing in this thread is quite interesting (as it often is) and that one way to look at the difference between his posts, and the logic that runs through them, and responses has to do with the question of frame of reference.
advancing arguments that challenge frames of reference has never been easy in here. folk seem too often content to recycle how infotainment is packaged for them and then move to develop their own positions within the limits set by that packaging. they seem reluctant to consider how information is packaged. they want to trust information presented: they want to trust the administration.
for a long time, i posted here with the idea that you could engender debate about frames of reference and the information shaped by them. i gradually figured out that this kind of discussion very difficult to engender. i started to get bored with it, and with the forum as a whole, and so have distanced myself from all this. i am pleased that host perserveres. it is part of the reason i still hang around here.
this thread is not primarily about the technicalities to do with the leak and the role karl rove played in either leaking or confirming. the debate is not a pseudo-legal one aimed at trying rove in public. the leak was part of a tactic devised by the bush administration to discredit a critic of its (obviously false) case for invading iraq. it is about the cavalier attitude of this administration toward even the most superficial dimensions of a democracy. it is about an administration that feels itself authorized to lie to the public, to avoid legal constraints etc etc etc. it is about an illegitimate, unjustified war that has cost thousands of lives. and it is about the simple fact that this administration has not been and seemingly will not be held to account for the war in iraq. that last point is, to me, simply mind-boggling.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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