The first chapter is right here.
The next is included as a comment upon it.
The concept spans the globe. We are all monkeys here. Often, we even act like it.
Sometimes this action is avoidable. Sometimes it is not.
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"Some of tomorrow's veterans are in combat now in Iraq," Bush said at Arlington National Cemetery, where he laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknowns. "They have a clear mission to defeat the terrorists and aid the rise of a new government that can defend itself. They are making us proud. ... They are winning."
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Updated: 8:08 p.m. ET Nov. 11, 2004]
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BEIRUT -- In a comment in a previous post, Farid said:I have a friend living abroad who expressed to me exactly what just did. Pre-election, Americans were deemed to be helpless bystanders of a government who has taken them hostage with its own agenda. Now they are seen as collaborators with it.
This comment resonated strongly with me personally because the insurgents in Iraq see all Americans/foreigners there, including we journalists, as collaborators with the U.S. occupation. I worry that the endorsement of the American people of the last three years will extend this attitude to the rest of the world.
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Posted by Christopher at November 4, 2004 07:37 PM]
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Washington, DC, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A veteran CIA terror hunter has quit the agency, saying it gagged him for fear his exposure of intelligence failures would embarrass other U.S. agencies.
Michael Scheuer, a 22-year CIA veteran who headed its operations against terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, told United Press International that he was barred from publishing a critique he wrote in May "documenting management and leadership failures" in U.S. efforts to disrupt al-Qaida and capture or kill its leader, Bin Laden, before Sept. 11.
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Washington, DC, Nov. 11 (UPI)]
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In interviews on US television, Gen Myers said: "We hope that in the next few days we'll be able to return Falluja to the citizens there without the intimidation that the insurgents brought."
But concerns are growing about the humanitarian situation in and around Falluja.
Red Crescent spokeswoman Firdoos al-Ubadi said Falluja was a "disaster", with doctors unable to reach most Iraqi casualties and medical equipment virtually non-existent.
Residents trapped in the battered city said they could smell the stench of decomposing bodies.
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Thursday, 11 November, 2004, 20:51 GMT]
You would think such destruction would give Americans time to pause. Time to wonder why invaded a country that did not attack us, was not a threat to us, but had something we needed desperately. You would think this would be a time for reflection, and hope.
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Nope. Not in George W. Bush's America. Now is the time to be an unrepentant asshole. It's time to embrace our ignorance, our hatred, and our big and powerful guns. It's time to act like we are perfect when we are fatally flawed. It is time to invite destruction. It's time to spit upon those that call for peace.
It is not a good time. It is the Day of the Monkey Triumphant. And woe be to the one that reaches for the banana of peace.
May God Bless America. She needs it desperately.