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Obama's impressive new OLC chief

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  • Monday, January 5, 2009 01:38 PM

    Greenwald and his insane sympathy for dead babies!

    Lab2112: I think it's pretty clear to anyone who's read his series of articles on the Israel-Palestine conflict that Greenwald condemns both sides.

    What he's "dismissive" about is Israel's pathetic victim narrative, and the United States' blind allegiance to it.

    What ratio of dead Palestinian babies to dead Israeli babies would prompt you to consider the conflict from the Palestinians' side? 1:100? 1:1,000,000?

    Your post is the perfect validation of the truthfulness of Glenn's writing.

    By the way, here's a beautiful illustration of the reality of conflict, and the fanaticism of the support-Israel-at-all-costs crowd: http://tinyurl.com/9dwso6

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