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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2>you're quite
right. it's been scary for a long time. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2>only now, more people
are finding it out. it's hard to go outside without stepping in it.
and if you try not going outside, they bring it to your house.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2>R</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mgilmore@bigzoo.net href="mailto:mgilmore@bigzoo.net">Maria
Gilmore</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org
href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 29, 2003 2:15
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [lbo-talk] CBS: First there
wasn't a bunker. Second we didn't hit it.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2>>where this
story not true (everyone trusts CBS, right?) it could mean saddam died
<EM>before</EM> the war >started. how would that play in the
USA? ... especially when no WMD are turning up.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#008000>In my opinion this is a very scary mass society right
now, precisely because the vast majority of Americans I have daily contact
with really could give a fart in a high wind about Iraq or what happens there,
whether Saddam is dead or alive, before or after. A vociferous
minority has been waving the flags; servicepeople's families are a
tiny percentage but the way they're all over the media as they celebrate
(understandably) their loved ones' return (those who are being allowed
to, that is; many have been held over in Iraq until...when?), you'd
think the entire damn country is waiting at every port for every
ship. But the truth is, for us ordinary people, this economy that
can't provide decent-paying jobs to more than a handful is the looming
threat. This culture, whose media pounds into your head via local
TV news that you can't trust anyone in your neighborhood as far as you can
throw them, is the enemy to worry about, Our bills, in debt as so
very many of us are with our plastic that allows us to keep buying and having
all that pretty shiny fun that takes our minds off how crappy our lives
really are, they are the stuff of nightmares.
Americans really don't care about Iraq, or what Dubya does over
there. It really doesn't have anything to do with us, except for
the servicepeople, and hell, they're all
volunteers. </FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>