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the call from the right for inquisitorial kangaroo courts is lunacy.
it's not about this war or that war. it is about the ongoing attempts from the right to obscure it's own record of disaster. one of the ways in which this argument has been made from the outset has been to say that if the obama administration continues a bush policy, it must be that the bush policy was rational or necessary.
this of course presupposes that it's possible to airbrush out pretty much the entire history of the past decade. and maybe the "tea party" indicates that for certain segments of the far right, this reality-optional move has some persuasive power. but that airbrushing is also a basic denial of what we call the reality principle. and that is a basic characteristic of dissociative disorders. and that is, strictly, lunacy.
so loons like peter king argue that something has been compromised because due process was in place and improperly gathered evidence was thrown out.
but they're really arguing against having to address the bush period.
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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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