...more people get killed in Iraq every day, while the top cowardly lion who fled from service in Viet Nam pretends he is a brave Lincoln faced with the destruction of this country and refuses therefore to disengage from disaster while denying that disaster is occurring...

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"Tenet should not be behind a microphone; he should be behind bars."
Velvel appends a "fantastically good article about George Tenet by Ray McGovern, a 27 year veteran of the CIA who for a period wrote the President’s daily brief."
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...But seeking cover Hillary does pretend
That we should support a phony bill to end
The war. It enables her to circumvent the important question,
One the media collusively will not mention
Of a bill immediately cutting off all funds for the war
Except money needed to protect troops withdrawing from the blood effusing sore...
- a poem by Lawrence R. Velvel

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...the sale of the Journal to Murdoch would be another, and very large, nail in the ever expanding Wall Streetization, and the consequently increasing incompetence, of American journalism. The concern, more specifically, is that the high quality straight journalism that often appears in the Journal will disappear as the paper becomes Murdochized -- as a desire for a high quality journalism gives way to the Wall Streetish desire for ever greater profits...

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The mania in this country for elite credentials makes a joke of the claim of social mobility that has always been so much a part of purported America. It is itself a form of moral meltdown.
On MIT, Wolfowitz, Iraq, the candidates...

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With regard to Imus, one does not bleed for him....Blacksburg? -- what can one say? People who have said some of what there is to say have been crucified... For they pointed out the societally inadmissible relationship between what happened at Blacksburg...on the one hand, and the violence which is approved by and endemic to American society and the American government on the other hand. ...

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...In Korea the Chinese came in by the hundreds of thousands and,
though most Americans don’t know it, Russian pilots were piloting the Mig.
There was no telling just how big
The war could have become
Had we insisted on putting in more men until we won,
If we indeed did win. There was a fear that we might easily
Have triggered World War III.
And in Viet Nam had we put in a million or a million and a half men,
We would have risked World War III again...

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