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This is how Christopher Hitchens begins a recent column on Iraq:
In what was to be his last book, The Evidence of Things Not Seen, about the murders of black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s, the great James Baldwin had the following reminiscence:
Some years ago, after the disappearance of civil rights workers Chaney, Goodman and Schwirner in Mississippi, some friends of mine were dragging the river for their bodies. This one wasn't Schwirner. This one wasn't Goodman. This one wasn't Chaney. Then, as Dave Dennis tells it: "It suddenly struck us – what difference did it make that it wasn't them? What are these bodies doing in the river?"
I just want to pause and note that this discussion with you has been a bit like dragging the river. Face it, GOK, we all know what happened. You do too. Rawat paraded as the Lord of the Universe and now he's lying about it. The ultimate question is how can you follow not just a liar but one who would lie about something like that?
Modified by Jim at Tue, Oct 26, 2004, 20:55:51
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