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Tuesday, May 1, 2007 12:00 AM

War as reality rather than cartoon

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    The Party of Personal Responsibility

    Here's another difference between the Israelis and US theocons:

    "No-one underestimates the need to study what happened in the past, including the imposition of personal responsibility. The past is the key for learning lessons for the future. . .

    For all the GOP tells us that teenagers, poor people, people of color, whoever else they disagree with, should take personal responsibility, we've seen no one even attempting to take responsibility for the multiple intelligence failures in Iraq and in the States before 9/11, the debacle in New Orleans, the attorney firings-- hell, no one's even willing to take responsibility for that infamous "Mission Accomplished" banner. It's shameful.

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