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POPS"The Bush Years" dazibao This giant poster is a cool idea, even though to be really useful, they should consider putting it up in places other than NYC, DC or LA...
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POPSMarijuana, Cigarettes and the Bush Administration I believed Clinton too because I didn't get high the first time I smoked pot: didn't know how to inhale. (Never have smoked cigs). In American-style Christianity, smoking is a sin. I wonder how Bush reconciles with his god the fact that he is condoning sin by promoting cigarette smoking overseas.
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POPSThird of Iraqis 'Need Urgent Aid' The Iraqi's have endured years of sanctions plus invasion, occupation and insurgency. No matter what happens in the end, no matter who is in control, what kind of future does a country have when 92% of its children suffer from learning disabilities? This entirely avoidable disaster is so barbaric it makes want me to vomit.
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POPSUS Accuses Saudis of Telling Lies About Iraq See also my clip: US Planning $20 bn Arms Package for Saudi Arabia posted 28 July. These articles coincide date wise. Perhaps this kiss and make up, or a deal to to reassure the Saudis that the U.S. is not on the side of their religious enemy, the Shi'a: a loyalty deal.
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POPS24: Torture Nation With the help of the hit TV show, 24 , torture has reached pop-culture (even punchline) status in America. Mayer helps show how Charles Krauthammer's near-non-existent "ticking clock" scenario has been popularized by "24" in such a way as to normalize torture in the public consciousness. In five seasons of "24", there have been sixty-seven torture scenes, and all of them are portrayed as effective, productive, and justified. Military cadets, weaned on '24", now tend to see nothing wrong with it. Soldiers in the field have internalized the show's ethics. One witness to this is Tony Lagouranis, a former army interrogator in Iraq. He tells Mayer that some soldiers in Iraq just replicated the "24" scenes in real life - even though torture is still nominally illegal under American law for the regular military (the Bush administration has created a special CIA torture unit to do the job instead).
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