Strange quotes, humourous bits, and some blatant cynicism.
From MSNBC 2004-01-02 on the WMD fiasco, report from the battlefield:
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Inevitably, some doubts are emerging on the battlefield.
In a recent letter home, a reservist with the 124th Infantry Regiment of the
Florida National Guard told friends and family that violent days had become
strangely ordinary. In the past week he and his buddies had faced RPG and mortar
attacks, "even a car bomb in the area."
But that was unexceptional: "It has been just another set of days going by.
Most of us don't know what day it is anymore, the concept of a 'workweek' and
a 'weekend' are as foreign to us as the Moon."
The soldier then proudly told how his unit had uncovered "a large weapons cache"
in the town of Ar Ramadi, adding parenthetically "(still no WMD, sorry)." Irony
turned to cynicism: "On the subject of WMD, we once did a raid on a place where
we heard they may —have been storing 'mustard gas,' [and] being the patriots
that we are and always out to prove our Commander in Chief's allegations, we
geared up in our chemical suits and stormed the place. It turned out to be a
restaurant... but they did have mustard, and some guy there had gas."
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From the Guardian 2005-04-17. Interesting quote on current changes in Communist thinking in China. Does this sound like National-Socialism in the making?
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'Nobody understands Marxism. It is ridiculous,' says LR, a former secretary of Mao Zedong. 'The ideals of the past don't exist any more. So it is right to turn to nationalism. It is the means by which the party can maintain its system and ideology.'
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