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the conclusions reached in this nie report are not a surprise--anyone willing to look has been able to see that this is the case, even through the distorted lens of tightly controlled press access and the consistent attempts to market this debacle in iraq so that it serves some political advantage for the band of incompetents who currently occupy the white house.
the invasion of iraq--the wholesale debacle that has been the occupation of iraq--the civil war the americans have brought to the country they claimed to be liberating--the american actions during the israeli attack o lebanon--how these general factors would combine to galvanize armed political opposition to the united states is not rocket science.
even if you supported the iraq war on geopolitical grounds and saw in the administration's rationales nothing more than political expedients, you would still have to be appalled at the magnitude of the disaster this administration has engineered for all of us.
maybe i can see why metaphors of a hornet's nest come to mind.
the bush administration appears to have its collective head shoved well into one.
and if you live in the united states, you too are in the place dumped on you by the ridiculous policies of this administration.
sometimes i wonder how long it will take for the u.s. to work its way out from under the effects of these people.
i suspect it will take a long time.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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