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I know that Barack Obama made the same choices in performing his role more articulately than the translucent Bush, upping the stakes in Afghanistan, and answering to the same white power-meisters.
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I know that our Congress has also chosen complicity with power, or at best has simply fallen into political cowardice rather than to risk standing for the right thing.
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I know that the "Surge" was wrong, motivated by a last desperate grasp for Afghanistan's resources, or simply to delay the exposure of the lies that promoted the initial treachery.
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I know that supporting Israel's treachery against the Palestinians with arms, funds and political posturing is wrong.
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I know that denying the United Nations the honest support of the world's most powerful nation is wrong and harmful not only to peace but to the full range of humanitarian endeavors.
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I know that the Department of Homeland Security is a near clone of the Gestapo that "protected" das Heimatland.
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I know that Guantanamo is wrong, along with trials of kidnapped minors by military tribunals.
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I know that torture is abominably wrong, and that water-boarding is such despite its energetic promotion by a Vice President of the United States and endorsed by legal experts of our "Justice" Department.
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