ECHO 8/3/06

Donald Rumsfeld blames the media for exaggerating reports of violence and insurgency, and potential civil war, in Iraq. He even attempts to deny the reports made today of 18 men found in a mini-bus, blindfolded and shot dead. His denial would be almost comical if it wasn’t so dangerously autocratic. If proof is denied then anything is possible – the power to rewrite history at speed, the power to change reality into political fantasy at will, the power to force feed the populus.

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TOPOS – 2

This night becomes a question
Sure the pillows are warm yet
Warmed by the acid – angry, bitter –
Of sudden truths

In valleys where two bodies lay
With sweat and heavy DNA
Of love - the blind lead the dead
Into the wind