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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Isn’t one of the primary purposes of
this list is to work out our ideas in collaboration, in order to make ourselves
and the left smarter, better, stronger? Even allowing for me going over
the top, I don’t quite understand why people think argument and even heated
argument in this forum are somehow hostile. I would probably take a
bullet for every member of this group, out in the real world. But here,
we’re not trying to talk about the weather and how much we like this or
that. We’re trying to feel our way toward progress. That
means arguing.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>As to me attacking the whole left: Not
true. Ward Churchill is a fraud and a liar, in my opinion. Beyond
that, all I was trying to say about Botero is that he sounded like he’d
just discovered war crimes. I realize he was probably quoted by a
journalist who ignored the balance of what he said, but Abu Ghraib should not
be surprising to anybody who’s followed the war machine.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If you don’t think I attack the
right, take a look at this: www.press.uillinois.edu/s05/dawson.html.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
lbo-talk-bounces@lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces@lbo-talk.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Cseniornyc@aol.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, May 09, 2005 12:44
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [lbo-talk] Abu Ghraib
inspires artist Fernando Botero</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>And where was "Senor"
Botero during Stalingrad,<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Guernica</st1:place></st1:City>,etc......<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>What kind of comment is this? Do you
Senor Dawson expect him to be everywhere, every time genocide is committed?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I am usually, for reasons of time, just a
lurker, but I have been observing with curiosity and indignation how Michael
Dawson systematically attacks everyone in the left from Churchill, other
members of the list and now Fernando Botero,so I couldn't resist this time. I
don't remember him pursuing right wingers with the same zest. Amazing!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Fernando Botero is just trying to be a
good artist: someone who comments on the big events of our times, who offers
visions and new perspectives on them with a good command of visual technique.
Why aren't American artists pursuing the themes of empire is a good question?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Cristobal Senior<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>NYC<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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