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After an initial denial, the Pentagon now acknowledges that troops used the chemical on insurgents -- and can't rule out contact with civilians.
  • U.S. credibility in the gutter

    We have our work cut out for us once we are finally rid of the current administration. They have done such extensive damage to American credibility around the world, that I believe we will need to make an overt and concerted effort to regain it. We have lost our reputation for honesty and high morals. Further, the structural institutionalization deception, and the rewarding of the architects of this institutionalization with high posts in government, mean that no one will trust us until we publically clean house and declare that our policies and institutions are being rededicated to true American principles.

    I'm feeling like I did during the Reagan administration: eight years of this administration will leave us with decades of work to undo the damage. Maybe that's their idea of a jobs program.