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How many Irakis were killed and you didn't mention it?
A million + ... A million and a half - maybe?
How many Afghanis?
Hundreds of thousands?
Did all these people have to die?
Why did you at Salon and elsewhere have to wait till today to start connecting the dots?
Maybe, as long as house prices were rising - and the stock market along with them - there was a tacit deal:
we are giving up our freedom, we are shutting our eyes
and let the administration do as it pleases... clap, clap!
With the rising figure of American war casualties, and house and stock prices plummeting ... voters remembered there existed a constitution, a Bill of Rights, that there is perhaps a public responsibility which is more than a bunch of private, egomaniac, frankly psychopathic interests.(There isn't such a thing as society, said Mrs. Thacher)
Maybe principles count only after the public's pockets are hit.
What attitudes... Should we call it almost suicidal
hypocrisy?
