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Blogs Liberty and Power Now I Get It

May 26, 2004

Now I Get It

by Liberty and Power

Conservatives are mad that the news media and Iraq-war critics focus on the bad news—abuse of detainees, bombings of wedding parties, and the like—while overlooking the good news—U.S. troops' building schools and hospitals. I get it: the good news is the extension of the welfare state to Iraq. Whoopee!