[lbo-talk] Bush's palace rises from the ashes of Baghdad

[ravi]

At around 25/8/06 10:31 pm, jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote:
> 
> How can anyone possibly go to a site like this in a country like Iraq
> and not be deeply ashamed? I don't mean this rhetorically. I cannot
> for the life of me understand how any decent human being from a
> wealthy country can stand in the middle of such extravagance
> surrounded by so much unfilled need and not just break down.
> 

I don't know... in the midst of abject poverty and misery, how can
people like me spend the almighty dollar at upscale malls in India, the
tiny obscenely wealthy throw million dollar weddings, a slightly smaller
number parrot Western right-wing rhetoric to justify their newfound
wealth, etc, etc? Nothing to be ashamed of, man. It's fucking India Shining!

	--ravi

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