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whosinpower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-04 02:34 PM
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Baghdad Year Zero - MUST READ
Excellent commentary - perhaps this has already been covered in DU -

snip - Iraq was to the neocons what Afghanistan was to the Taliban: the one place on Earth where they could force everyone to live by the most literal, unyielding interpretation of their sacred texts. One would think that the bloody results of this experiment would inspire a crisis of faith: in the country where they had absolute free reign, where there was no local government to blame, where economic reforms were introduced at their most shocking and most perfect, they created, instead of a model free market, a failed state no right-thinking investor would touch. And yet the Green Zone neocons and their masters in Washington are no more likely to reexamine their core beliefs than the Taliban mullahs were inclined to search their souls when their Islamic state slid into a debauched Hades of opium and sex slavery. When facts threaten true believers, they simply close their eyes and pray harder.


I LOVE the last line.


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6930.htm
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-04 02:35 PM
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1. kick
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soleft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-04 02:37 PM
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2. I've sent it to a few people who were blown away
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Tracer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-04 02:41 PM
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3. Ted Kennedy touched on this briefly ...
... in his speech yesterday.

This article is a thorough indictment of the criminal behavior of the neo-con segment of our government.

May they rot in hell.
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-04 03:47 PM
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4. Incredible read.
Makes everything crystal clear.
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