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A NEW LOW: Here’s how the journalist, Robert Fisk, begins an article on the brutal murder of Margaret Hassan:
Who killed Margaret Hassan? After the grief, the astonishment, heartbreak, anger and fury over the apparent murder of such a good and saintly woman, that is the question that her friends – and, quite possibly, the Iraqi insurgents – will be asking. This Anglo-Irish lady held an Iraqi passport. She had lived in Iraq for 30 years, she had dedicated her life to the welfare of Iraqis in need. She hated the UN sanctions and opposed the Anglo-American invasion. So who killed Margaret Hassan?
Fisk goes on to imply and then weasels away from implying that the U.S. or Allawi were behind her murder. I really don’t know what else to say.
BACKLASH WATCH: In East Texas, an old homecoming tradition of “TWIRP Day,” where girls dress like boys and vice-versa, will occur no more. One “religious” parent had a cow and launched a campaign to stamp it out. “It is outrageous that a school in a small town in east Texas would encourage their 4-year-olds to be cross-dressers,” Liberty Legal Institute attorney Hiram Sasser said. What a loser.
EXECUTING MINORS: In Iran, it’s justice as usual.
THE MORONIC RIGHT: They now want to see war-journalists killed. For doing their job.
BECOMING PIGS: The Republican attempt to change the rules they once supported in favor of keeping Tom DeLay in his leadership post is a revealing turning point. It’s that Orwellian moment when you realize that ten years after the Republicans pledged to overturn the self-serving corruption and complacency of the majority Democrats, they have become indistinguishable from the people they once targeted.
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