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Don't read this unless you have your blood-pressure medication handy:

Blackwater Heavies Sue Families of Slain Employees for $10 Million in Brutal Attempt to Suppress Their Story

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Permanent bases in Iraq? Don't call 'em that. Call 'em enduring camps. Joseph Goebbels would.

And in fact, those camps prove Bush was right about Mission Accomplished after all. But he was just being little less than forthright about what the mission actually is — the extension of "the American way of empire" to Iraq:

Because of some of the worst reporting on an important topic in recent memory, most Americans have lived out these last years in remarkable ignorance of what was actually being built in Iraq.

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And speaking of Mission Accomplished,there's no way we're going to allow those ungrateful Iraqi oil workers to ruin it:

But one [strikers'] demand overshadows even these basic needs — renegotiation of the oil law that would turn the industry itself over to foreign corporations. And it is this demand that has brought out even the US fighter jets, which have circled and buzzed over the strikers' demonstrations.

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Bush's circle of friends continues to widen. First it was Barney and lapdog Tony Blair, and now it's Albania.

Maybe in 2009, Georgie and Tony will run off to Albania together, and take Barney with them. I wonder if we have an extradition treaty with Albania...