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and of such material is built the conservative ghost-narrative about iraq--the upside-down version in which everything is justified, saddam hussein has been sentenced, the linkage of iraq to the "war on terror" is functional...the sort of narrative that is mostly a kind of affective escape-hatch for the far right set--see? the narrative you want to see is still out there somewhere, just believe in the mask and pay no attention to the man behind it, believe the Picture and pay no attention to the messy reality it conceals.
conservative ideology at its most infantile.
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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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