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The most important revelation of the Iraq war has been of the Bush administration's blatant contempt for fact. Whether defined as "lying" or not, the clear manipulation of intelligence ahead of last year's invasion has been completely exposed.... The repetition of falsehoods tied to the war on terrorism and the war against Iraq has eroded the American capacity, if not to tell the difference between what is true and what is a lie, then to think the difference matters much. The administration distorted fact ahead of the invasion, when the American people could not refute what had not happened yet. And the administration distorts fact now, when the American people do not remember clearly what we were told a year ago. That Bush retains the confidence of a sizable proportion of the electorate suggests that Americans don't particularly worry anymore about truth as a guiding principle of their government.
In that lies the irony. The Bush dynasty has in fact initiated a new order of things. The United States of America has become its own opposite, a nation of triumphant freedom that claims the right to restrain the freedom of others; a nation of a structured balance of power that destroys the balance of power abroad; a nation of creative enterprise that exports a smothering banality; and above all, a nation of forcefully direct expression that disrespects the truth. Whatever happens from this week forward in Iraq, the main outcome of the war for the United States is clear. We have defeated ourselves.
-- James Carroll, Boston Globe March 16, 2004
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1816
First use of term "scab" to refer to strike-breakers by Albany Typographical Society, Albany, NY.
1884
Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for president, born.
1936
Buenaventura Durruti, the famous Spanish anarchist, shot in the lung the day before, dies. Durruti's body was taken to Barcelona, where he was buried in a ceremony attended by over 500,000 people.
1980
President Carter briefs incoming President Reagan for over an hour on various secret matters in which the government is currently involved; Reagan is disengaged throughout the briefing and clearly bored, he takes no notes and his only comment is an expression of envy for South Korean dictator Park's power to crackdown on student protests by closing the universities and drafting the students.
1983
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