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Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Right-wingers bloggers likely in a flutter over the UN oil-for-food story. Of course, this news is very unfortunate and wrong, but it's the U.N., not the U.S. Don't you just love the way they dedicate their time and effort into bashing an entity that is not an arm of our representative government? To what extent does this merit our ire as opposed to the many wrongs committed by those who have been directly elected by us to serve us? It's called diversion, and the U.N. has always been a fave punching bag of the right-wing in this regard. Meanwhile, much of Rome burns....
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