Hearing pundits, journalists and military spokespeople analyze progress on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion seems to me an exercise in selective memory, wishful thinking and just plain p.r. spin. When i hear the current situation compared to the most violent period of the insurgency I wonder what the average person’s life before 2003, people went to school, sat in cafes, lived in mixed neighborhoods and women for the most part went about their business without harassment. Was the former regime though brutal “making progress”.
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jeez
to me that incursion into Ecuador seems like a U.S. inspired provocation
remember Columbia has been a client state for a while
with tens of billions of our dollars given to the right wing columbian goverment
ostensibly for drug eradication
but really it has been used for left wing eradication
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i’d like to visit cuba before he dies
i can’t say what will happen there after he’s gone
but i’m pretty sure the people of cuba
won’t let right wing exiles
or the u.s. goverment set their agenda
i was quite impressed
with barack obama’s speech on race
whatever the merits of what he said was
i feel he spoke from the heart
about things that needed to be said
whad’ya think?
have you heard any of it?
beware of the sound bites though
whoa! there’s much to say
firstly we’re in a pleasant dilemma
because either one running for prez
would be a very positive development in my opinion
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