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America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 11:18 AM

    wrt: Lady Macbeth

    November 14, 2001-“Every day [Hussein’s nuclear sites] turn out a little bit of nuclear materials. Do we wait for Saddam and hope for the best, do we wait and hope he doesn’t do what we know he is capable of . . . or do we take some preemptive action?”-Perle He cited testimony from Dr. Khidhir Hamza, an Iraqi defector.

    The Stovepipe, by Seymour M. Hersh, October 2003

    http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/03 [...]

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