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Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "They may have been the most disastrous dreamers, the most reckless gamblers, and the most vigorous imperial hucksters and grifters in our history. Selling was their passion. And they were classic American salesmen - if you're talking about underwater land in Florida, or the Brooklyn Bridge, or three-card monte, or bizarre visions of Iraqi unmanned aerial vehicles armed with chemical and biological weaponry let loose over the US, or Saddam Hussein's mushroom clouds rising over American cities, or a full-scale reordering of the Middle East to our taste, or simply eternal global dominance."

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The McCain Military Draft

Juan Cole, Informed Comment: "My friends, there is only one way for McCain to make good on his hawkish foreign policy and his virtual pledge of more wars. McCain will need to institute a draft for young American men (and, given the times, maybe for women as well)."

http://www.truthout.org/110308F



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