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Reply to commentOh, Roy!Mr Alicublog is on the top of his game today:
I am too much the pessimist to believe that by continuing to poke holes in the insane justifications for the endless occupation of Iraq the neocons and the fighting keyboardists who love them will shut up and go home. Or that their arguments won't be treated as serious by the pundit class. Still, it helps one's sanity to be reminded that their justifications really are full of shit. I sincerely hope that the McCain campaign listens to the whispers of these same neocons and makes Iraq the center of their platform in the general election. I understand well that many Americans will be fooled by the politics of fear and pseudo-patriotism. But I do think that there are enough sane voters who can see the occupation for the catastrophic blunder that it is, and who will be roused to action by the ongoing attempt to bullshit them. The neocons won't go home by choice, but we can send them away with a landslide rejection.
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