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A lifelong Democrat, my comments on Congress, the judiciary and the presidency are regular features.
My observations and commentary are on people and events in politics that affect the USA or the rest of the world, and stand for the interests of peace, security and justice.
Monday, July 04, 2005
Again
Juan Cole's Independence Day post links to a Swiss site with news of another mistake resulting in the death of an innocent person in Iraq. Towards the end of his top post, Professor Cole puts forward a possible explanation of why these shoot-first-ask-questions-later incidents (see my previous post) may be happening. He feels that the suicide car bombers have set our troops up to unintentionally harm innocents. That explanation makes sense to me. It continues to be hard. . . .
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