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This was a fine-artsy attempt at a selfportrait, unfortunately it was the only piece I had remotely appropriate for the occasion.
Yeah, I know, there's a cat on my face.
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commonplacebook's birthday.
Really really good article by Michael Lind:
A Tragedy of Errors, on the new book by David Frum and Richard Perle
The cynical way in which the Bush Administration lied to Congress and the American people to justify an invasion of Iraq planned years before September 11, 2001, by Wolfowitz and many of his PNAC allies came as no surprise to me, a former neocon. In an anthology titled The Fettered Presidency published by the American Enterprise Institute in 1989, Irving Kristol wrote that "if the president goes to the American people and wraps himself in the American flag and lets Congress wrap itself in the white flag of surrender, the president will win.... The American people had never heard of Grenada. There was no reason why they should have. The reason we gave for the intervention--the risk to American medical students there--was phony but the reaction of the American people was absolutely and overwhelmingly favorable. They had no idea what was going on, but they backed the president. They always will."
via Ken Macleod, via![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
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snocat_!This was a fine-artsy attempt at a selfportrait, unfortunately it was the only piece I had remotely appropriate for the occasion.
Yeah, I know, there's a cat on my face.
Hey, apparently it's also
commonplacebook's birthday.Really really good article by Michael Lind:
A Tragedy of Errors, on the new book by David Frum and Richard Perle
The cynical way in which the Bush Administration lied to Congress and the American people to justify an invasion of Iraq planned years before September 11, 2001, by Wolfowitz and many of his PNAC allies came as no surprise to me, a former neocon. In an anthology titled The Fettered Presidency published by the American Enterprise Institute in 1989, Irving Kristol wrote that "if the president goes to the American people and wraps himself in the American flag and lets Congress wrap itself in the white flag of surrender, the president will win.... The American people had never heard of Grenada. There was no reason why they should have. The reason we gave for the intervention--the risk to American medical students there--was phony but the reaction of the American people was absolutely and overwhelmingly favorable. They had no idea what was going on, but they backed the president. They always will."
via Ken Macleod, via
makinglight