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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (95688)	4/22/2003 10:49:44 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

>>we are cogs in an infernal machine<< Merciful heavens! Do you wear a hair shirt next to your skin? Flagellate yourself with a cat of nine tails with sharply barbed knots? Wear a crown of thorns pushed down firmly into your scalp so that the blood flows freely? How about drinking soda water with bitters? I am told that this does wonders for dyspepsia.

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (95688)	4/22/2003 11:05:46 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

we are cogs in an infernal machine sp.nl --fl

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (95688)	4/22/2003 11:58:44 PM
From: Sultan	Respond to of 281500

The greatest gulf Jonathan Raban argues that, apart from the immediate cost in human life, military intervention in Iraq has also represented a disastrous failure of imagination and a fatal inability to understand the role of history - and religion - in the region Saturday April 19, 2003 The Guardian Whatever its immediate apparent outcome, the war on Iraq represents a catastrophic breakdown of the British and American imagination. We've utterly failed to comprehend the character of the people whose lands we have invaded, and for that we're likely to find ourselves paying a price beside which the body-count on both sides in the Iraqi conflict will seem trifling. books.guardian.co.uk