Sent: 16 Jul 2007
Subject: "Wrong Again!"
Picture: Red, white & blue ribbon."
Text: "These colors don't torture."
Dear Gentlepersons:
Albeit the Bush II R+¬gime demands it, we should not stay on our present course in the Iraq region; please consider this fine article:
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From TomDispatch, posted 15 Jul 2007
Tomgram: Only in Washington...
Wrong Again!
Bush's Logic and Ours
By Tom Engelhardt
Okay, it's another lemon, the second you've bought from the same used-car lot -- and for $1,000 more than the first. The transmission is a mess; the muffler's clunking; ... It may not look so great today, what with the smoking hood and all, but it's a vehicle for the ages.
Would you buy a used car from this man? (Hint: He looks remarkably like George Bush.) ...
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... it would make more sense to play an opposite's game with whatever positions the President and his officials take. Your odds on being right are guaranteed to be phenomenally high. Why, in fact, listen to them for one more second? Why be forced to look back and say "Wrong again!" one more time?
Tom Engelhardt, who runs the Nation Institute's Tomdispatch.com ("a regular antidote to the mainstream media"), is the co-founder of the American Empire Project and, most recently, the author of Mission Unaccomplished: Tomdispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters (Nation Books).
Copyright 2007 Tom Engelhardt
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For reflection: "... a prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice, ..." ~ Machiavelli
Responses from anyone, including the occupants of Constitutional Offices, are welcome.
With every good wish,
John R. Cole
Edinburg, VA 22824-9412