Deadly "disassembling"

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This week the nation’s vice president instructed the Air Force Academy’s graduating class (in fundamentalist theology, one assumes) "to hunt down the terrorists before they can hit us again.” Catch that? “Before they” -- and “again.” Then, to quell the suspense, he declared “we are winning” the war on terrorism. “After 9/11, this nation made a decision. We will not sit back and wait for future attacks. We will prevent those attacks by taking the fight to the enemy."

After all this time and after, even, all the official disclaimers, Dick is still out there, on autopilot, demagoguing a connection between 9/11 and "taking the fight to the enemy" in Iraq. There’s demagoguery, and then there’s shameless demagoguery.

Not long before Cheney’s discredited prattle the secretary of state predicted that "as Iraqis see their interests … represented in the political process, the insurgency will lose steam." Lose steam? Has Condi seen a newspaper lately? Or perhaps this? There have been 1,851 coalition troop deaths, 1,667 Americans, 89 Britons, 10 Bulgarians, one Dane, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Hungarian, 25 Italians, one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians in the war in Iraq as of June 2, 2005.

And most of these deaths occurred after we accomplished our mission -- the one we’re still winning, though we’re rapidly losing, but which will prevent the next. Vintage BushThink.

PM Carpenter

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1. Excellent rant

but could you explain we’re ? This "mark" and others befuddle me.

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2. That is a misinterpretation of the apostrophe (single quote) mark.

Made by the web software displaying the page, most likely in
the context of non-ASCII display fonts.