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May 31, 2004

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Posted by Phil on May 31, 2004 10:03 PM

Billmon:

And, assuming the "transition" goes off more or less as planned, what will have been gained--other than a couple of marginally useful 30-second campaign spots for the Bush-Cheney campaign? All the blood and treasure and international credibility sacrificed over the past year will have been spent simply to end up roughly where America stood in Vietnam in 1963--desperately trying to prop up a corrupt, quasi-colonial regime with virtually no domestic legitimacy.