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more repulsive theater of the absurd from the bush administration.
what i am amazed at is the newspaper coverage this morning: the huge typeface, the cheerleading in the writing, the use of this particularly ambiguous moment as a tool for re-marketing the bushwar in iraq. you'd almost get the impression that the execution has nothing to do with iraq, and is more a spectacle aimed at generating a nice little new years poll bump for the bush people as they prepare to face The Enemy--you know, the next congress with the slim democrat majority.
i expect this will only serve to intensify opposition on the ground to american colonial occupation. creating a martyr never helps. at least with hussein alive, one could pretend that the internal struggles over succession prevented the resistance from focusing on the occupation: this move could well change that.....but who knows. it is obviously difficult to peer through the hall of mirrors that shapes american infotainment about iraq and get an idea of what is happening on the ground.
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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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