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"And so, while he cannot reduce Baghdad to Glenn Reynolds' longed-for rubble -- at least not yet -- he can push forward with this new tightening of the screws on his captive colony. When this inevitably fails in its ostensible mission, they will lurch on to something else, another scheme to keep the rubes off-balance for a few months longer, then repeat the cycle again and again. Why? Because the whole point of Bush's strategy is to prolong the American military presence in Iraq. This is why American soldiers were sent there -- to stay there. And they will stay there -- no matter how many bombs go off in the Green Zone, no matter how much horrific blowback is generated by the Bush-McCain surge -- until the American people make the political costs too high for any politician to bear. And this includes the Democrats, whose vaunted "anti-war" plans so far have all called for retaining some kind of military presence in Iraq, and the handover of the nation's oil to the West. As the man said, the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
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SIRATYST (Stuff I Read and Thought You Should Too) -- “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” (Calgacus, as quoted by Tacitus, Agricola 30-31)"
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