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• Thursday, May 24, 2007 07:02 AM

  Shame on you, Joan.

  What Keith is talking about is THE WAR. Collective punishment. Death. Injury. Displacement. Human misery on a scale that would be hard for any of us - or, at least those of us not in Iraq - to truly appreciate.

  You, on the other hand, appear to be concerned primarily with Democratic politics.

  For some of us, it's a moral issue, not a political one.

  Your criticism of Olbermann underscores the single biggest problem with today's progressives; namely, that every action, reaction and inaction represents nothing more than a political calculation.

  Truth is often over the top, Joan. Your focus on language rather than message will surely further your assimilation in the Royal Punditry, but it is precisely that kind of behavior that gives the Dems cover to do a whole lotta nothing.

  And while Dems do exactly that - nothing - The Bush Machine continues its mission to provoke Iran into a full scale war.

  Given the NeoCons' boundless enthusiasm for setting all kinds of horrific precedents, there is little doubt that their ultimate aim today is to use nuclear weapons offensively against Iran. As part of the chortling tsk-tsk-tsk'rs proliferating in The Beltway, you might want to stop and ponder your role - regardless of how small you may perceive it to be - in the actualization of such an unimaginable atrocity. Not to mention the ongoing one.

  At best, you are myopic.

  At worst, you are morally bankrupt.

  Either way, you're dead fucking wrong.

  —Arvin Hill Read Arvin Hill's other letters
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