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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

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.

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 08:19 AM

    -@JWhite - No Attack

    There has been no attack since disclosure of the illegal wiretapping, rendition, torture, etc. activities. Does that further defeat the insipid rhetoric of 'these things prevented an attack and are, therefore, justifiable'?

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