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Posted on November 27th, 2007 in Brain Tease, News, Politics, R.I.P., True Crime

Favorite ‘graph – Vol. 11, Issue 13

By Glenny Brock

I hate to play favorites among the many talented writers at Birmingham Weekly, but in the forthcoming “column,” Courtney Haden did such a bang-up job articulating his dismay about the future by commenting on the present, that I could not resist sending out this 63-word nub as a torchbearer for the entire issue:

So while the observance of IGY’s centenary is underway in 2057, we apparently will still be in Iraq, permanently based in Baghdad, forever policing those blasted streets in the shadow of the mightiest fortified embassy on earth, never to recover the trillions wasted or the thousands killed or the invaluable respect squandered on an evil bargain from which we will never extricate ourselves.

To learn what the IGY is, tune in here about this time tomorrow.

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