They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
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A ''just war'' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.Alexander Cockburn
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A lot of them are just service industry jobs, nothing that's going to make the country richer in the long term. Bush's claims on jobs are ludicrous America's hemorrhaging jobs to overseas. The industry face of the country has disappeared. Look at Ford Ford is about to fire 50,000 people. GM has fired 50,000. That's a total of 100,000 people. Can you imagine how many jobs that translates to
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Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadened the senses against a barrage of uninterrupted nonsense.
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