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Thursday, May 20, 2004


Just finished watching the culmunation of McNamara's mea culpa, Fog of War. What an incredible film. If there was just some way to get Wolfowitz to sit down and watch it, think of how the world would be different?

It's odd to see that Bush and LBJ both have the same condesending, arrogant swaggar about them, since the rest of the country (and world) will see that as a Texan thing, when it isn't Texan at all.

Also, excellent Dylan Thomas poem there at the end.
The Hand that Signed the Paper Felled a City

The hand that signed the paper felled a city;
Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,
Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country;
These five kings did a king to death.

The mighty hand leads to a sloping shoulder,
The finger joints are cramped with chalk;
A goose's quill has put an end to murder
That put an end to talk.

The hand that signed the treaty bred a fever,
And famine grew, and locusts came;
Great is the hand the holds dominion over
Man by a scribbled name.

The five kings count the dead but do not soften
The crusted wound nor pat the brow;
A hand rules pity as a hand rules heaven;
Hands have no tears to flow.
Great is the hand the holds dominion over Man by a scribbled name. What more can you say?



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