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Breakfast (Free verse) by Dhanesh M Kumar

Hip hip â¦ hipâ¦.hurai, Hip hip â¦ hipâ¦.hurai Powell, Rice and their company sings the song with seamless joy; Throwing apart the countless skulls of 2 years to 80 years , They are rejoiced by the smell of oil. Miles afar their boss is busy , Eating the breakfast of many Otherâs bone..

ecargo

10-Mar-06/7:29 AM

"Our own ecargo"--ah, how warm and cosy it makes me feel. "South Bend--it sounds like dahncing."

DA, you know I adore you (I do), and I agree with you on a surprising number of points, but I think you're the one being idealistic (and neocon idealism I don't buy). How surprising. You're probably right that eventually Iraq was going to melt down into a bloody mess, but who's to say it would have been as bloody and messy as what we've precipitated? You seem to be among those who think that it's pointless to keep on about how we got there in the first place. I disagree. I'd like to see some accountability. I doubt I ever will, though. (American Idol is on, after all, and news has a *responsibility* to cover, endlessly, whichever pretty blond girl has gone missing lately.)

I'm not particularly "anti-war" (in the knee-jerk sense), and, I hope, not "pious" about the opinions I hold--but I do have strong feelings about the way this war was sold, rubber stamped, and has been conducted ever since. I admit, I'm conflicted about our mideast misadventure. Now that we're there, I agree with you that we need to see it through, whatever it takes. I don't think that our "wreckless" (awesomely ironic typo) neocon cabal--the ones who made such gross errors in executing their little plan at every stage of this affair--are the ones to achieve those long-term goals, though.

Mostly, though, I'm practical and endlessly cynical about politics, and I don't think we (and I mean the U.S. citizenry and our cowardly, ass-covering politicians and our counterparts among the so-called "coalition") have the long-term will or wherewithal to achieve the kind of long-term rebuilding and "democracy building" that you're talking about. I hope I'm wrong.

As for the limp "ending," I think it was more of a sidestep. I only have so much energy.

(Her nose, by the way.)

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