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i still think that the iraq war will be remembered as a moment at which the united states gave away something fundamental about itself and then didn't have the integrity or courage to look it down, to take account of it, and still less to hold the oligarchy responsible.
i'm not arguing with tully and eden's assessments of what's likely to happen as a result of the leak. i mean, just look at the continuing gap in coverage between the heroic us media and that of the guardian and independent and al-jazeera. apparently when dod "asks" that a story not be covered, they nearly get their wish domestically anyway.
i wish it were otherwise.
obviously posting this way in a messageboard is an index of little more than frustration, or a desire to distance myself somehow from the overwhelming blase response, like systematic torture and the killing of in the area of 100,000 civilians falls under the rubric of "shit that happens" because "war is hell"---and still more from the non-reaction of alot of other folk who really don't seem to be interested at all. maybe that's because they're not being told that they are already interested. and americans are passive, don't you think? they like doing what they're told so long as they can pretend they aren't being told what they like doing. and they don't like bad news. and they don't like war crimes when the americans are complicit in them. they want to feel good while they sit on their couches.
i am btw sitting on a couch.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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