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this study set out to compile information about the economic, human, social and political costs of the travesty that has been the "war on terror" brought to us by the bush administration which turned it into such a disaster that there's no obvious way out of it for the moderates in the obama administration---who, sadly, accepted the idea that there was something legitimate about this travesty at its core.
but the disasters the republicans visited upon the people of iraq, the people of afghanistan and pakistan---have not been dismantled by the obama administration.
maybe if you read real slow, you'll pick up on this:
the costs of these travesties has been kept off the table by both sides.
the onus, however, is on the republicans---on the right---on people like you---because yours is the political position that caused afghanistan and iraq and bungled both.
and that's a big part of the reason the right still doesn't want to address this: you've had to run away from your own history over the past 10 years to remain a viable political formation at all. and the right is still trying to run from itself.
bringing up the costs of these wars goes some distance toward undermining that politically motivated amnesia.
this information also undermines the right's ludicrous attempts to position obama as anything other than a centrist.
hell, even that neo-fascist dick cheney has endorsed much of obama's "war on terror" follies as if being trapped by an epic clusterfuck and struggling to get out of it situations of such monumental catastrophe (iraq) that there's no way justifies the clusterfuck.
it's no wonder that you try to swat the report away. the stakes are high for the right in keeping information at bay.
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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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