Shane Mage
"Mortals immortals, immortals mortals,
living their deaths, dying their lives"
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62
>Events may swiftly make this irrelevant but still...
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>
>During the run up to the US presidential election, on several
>occasions (at least
>two of which happened on Doug's show) Tariq Ali stated his belief that -- well
>known problems with the opposition candidates aside -- it was
>important to defeat
>the architects of the Iraq war, *to prove it can be done* and to demonstrate a
>clear NO! to the idea of preemptive war and the almost insanely
>absurd lies used
>to justify it.
>
>We know how things turned out in the US.
>
>Now Mr. Blair faces an election. A lot of blood stained water has
>flowed under
>the bridge since he co-signed War Plan Iraq. If he wins an
>*unprecedented third
>term* what lessons should we draw about people's tolerance of BS (or
>estrangement
>from a cause and effect understanding of reality) in not one, but two of the
>major Western democracies?
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>
>.d.
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