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Thursday, March 20, 2008 12:00 AM

Lessons not learned

The pile of "mea culpas" from war advocates demonstrates how little has changed in their thinking.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:37 AM

    Yeah, that's gonna happen.

    As a result of these claimed "lessons learned" from Iraq, perhaps our media and political elite will weigh the costs and benefits a little more carefully the next time around. Perhaps they will be marginally more skeptical of uncorroborated government assertions.

    Perhaps monkeys will come flying out of my butt.

    —JoeMommaSan Read JoeMommaSan's other letters

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