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Saturday May 10, 2008 · 12:45 PM PDT

2008/05/10 · 12:45

FOR PREVENTING U.S. ALLIES IN IRAQ FROM BECOMING A BURDEN TO THEIR NEIGHBORS AND FOR MAKING THEM BENEFICIAL TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE GOOD PEOPLE OF CRAWFORD, TEXAS

(with apologies to Messrs Swift and Olbermann)

IT IS a melancholy object to think this weekend about the President and his family celebrating his daughter’s wedding in Crawford, Texas, when close to 5 million Iraqis have been displaced by violence in their country, thanks to his invasion and occupation of Iraq.

More than 2.4 million Iraqis have been forced to vacate their homes, and approximately 2.5 million have fled to Syria, Jordan, Iran, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey and Gulf States, unable to enter the countries of their liberators in Europe and America. Thus, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, these Iraqis are forced to leave their homes and country, and beg for sustenance for their helpless families.

Meanwhile, Crawford, Texas, in the present deplorable state of our kingdom, fights for its own survival as "the Home of George W. Bush."

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Sunday April 06, 2008 · 4:32 PM PDT

2008/04/06 · 16:32

It has been interesting to read everyone's comments here about the 5-year anniversary of MSNBC's Countdown. As someone who rarely -- if ever -- watches television, I surprisingly found myself celebrating as well.

Much has happened over the past five years about which readers here will need no reminding – the invasion and occupation of Iraq, where more than 4,000 young Americans have lost their lives; the almost daily assault on American civil liberties; the rise of secret prisons into which people disappear not to be heard from in years, if at all; and bone-chilling discussions about what kinds of torture the U.S. government sanctions (and those it only practices behind closed doors). Oh yes, and then there was the flooding of New Orleans that briefly threatened to disrupt our president’s lengthy summer vacation.

What a long, strange half a decade it has been.

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