AND ANOTHER THING…
Your assignment is to deduce the reasoning processes that went through Mr. Zurfluh’s mind in the seconds immediately before consuming his own shorts. Write out your findings in the form of an internal monologue.
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I lifted the following from fellow Salon blog Living Backstage. A set of ringing truths from those riding in the vanguard of Bush’s great Crusade.
When Pat Robertson says "Adolph Hitler is bad, but what the Muslims do to the Jews is worse"; the Reverend Jerry Falwell refers to the Prophet as a "terrorist"; Jimmy Swaggart prays that "God blesses those who bless Israel and damns those who damn it"; and the Reverend Franklin Graham calls Islam a "wicked religion" and says Christianity and Islam are "different as lightness and darkness," Muslims believe that "[n]ever has Islam faced such a frantic campaign of insult for centuries."
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Tomorrow the Butler Report either daubs the whitewash, blows the whistle or sits on the fence on the issue of government culpability concerning the quality of intelligence prior to the decision to go to war in Iraq. All bets are still on with the field indeterminate. One significant factor is that Lord Butler has no intention of allowing Blair’s spinmeisters to get active in the immediate wake of the report’s release. He’s publishing his conclusions before Downing Street has the opportunity to quote selectively.
Whatever the report’s findings & however athletically Blair & his minions demonstrate their circus skills, this acknowledgement of the certainty of cynical manipulation is a depressing sign of the times. Nowadays we simply assume dishonesty: on a spectrum ranging from shifty equivocation right the way across to systematic lying, we absorb it as part of the process & we are prepared to live with it.
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With a rigour & tenacity typical of its continuing coverage of Iraq, The Independent’s Brian Jones has laid out key quotations from the WMD dossier, stating what the original document actually said, what Downing Street published it as saying & what he, Brian Jones, feels that it ought to have said. If you haven’t gone into deep & irreversible Iraq fatigue, check it out & then ponder whether you’re reading reasonable editing for public consumption or bare-faced bowdlerisation for the purposes of mass manipulation.
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