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November 07, 2003
CONNECT THE DOTS
Looking for an upbeat way to begin the weekend ain't easy ...
Not when another helicopter has gone down in Iraq, this time killing six American soldiers ...
Not when the
Not when Shrub's rush to war in Iraq looks increasingly like a high-level conspiracy to ignore any other option ...
Not when Jessica Lynch says she feels "used" by the U.S. military, which "lied" about her and "manipulated" her story ...
Not when the independent 9/11 commission may have to subpoena Oval Office documents Shrub and his minions are still withholding from its investigation of intelligence failures involving the 9/11 attacks, because Shrub has reneged on his promise to cooperate fully ...
Not when Der Gropenfuhrer of Culifornia says he'll hire a private eye to investigate charges made against him by women who claim he sexually assaulted them, but < EM>he may not turn over the results to the state's attorney general because he distrusts him ...
Not when mendacity was the theme of the week and not just the refrain of both Tennessee Williams' southern-fried patriarch, Big Daddy, and Big Daddy's son, Brick the Thick, in the flawed Broadway revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" ...
POSTSCRIPT: It is Saturday morning. Words that might as well be emblazoned in Times Square -- "we have here another depressing example of official mendacity" -- pop out at me from this morning's lead editorial in The New York Times. Read it: "The Fruits of Secrecy." It's about more of this week's lies, i.e., Bush's broken vow to protect the environment.
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