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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction

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To: TimF who wrote (80640)	7/13/2010 11:19:25 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation of 90947

.... an over-the-top comment from “flydye45,” a commenter at Megan McArdle’s blog at the Atlantic: Hmm. 1) Immigrant student, probably first one in college from his family. Check 2) Brother tricked by the War Machine with patriotism and machismo into signing up for the military. Check 3) Semi trained, gung ho but unready, brother is shot in theater by an enemy he could never have defended against. (Cue Futility) Check 4) Long LINGERING wound in a desert . . . in a tent . . . as his life drains away friendless and alone. (Military brutality) Check 5) Brother at college is given second hand information and the American Dream is snatched [from] his grasp as TWO lives, nay, a WHOLE FAMILY is ruined by Bush’s Stupid War. Check This is some of the finest ‘torture porn’ . . . I’ve seen . . . what? It’s serious? Are you kidding me? Mr Bellesiles, your talents are wasted there. Go to Hollywood immediately . . . . .... volokh.com The commenter is right. Hollywood would buy that screenplay and Bellasiles wouldn't have to worry about those pesky fact-checkers.

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