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Thursday, September 14, 2006 12:00 AM

Emerald City exposed

Journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran pulls back the curtain on the Green Zone in Baghdad to reveal the flops and failures of the Bush war team.
By Sidney Blumenthal

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  • Thursday, September 14, 2006 07:40 AM

    Nothing new

    None of this is new. It has happened in past wars, and it will happen in future wars. The only hope is that govt investigates war profiteers. I think war profiteering should be considered high treason, punishable by the death penalty.

    Everyone should read this: http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm

    War is a racket, and that's all you ever really need to know about it.

    —yalej Read yalej's other letters

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