There, conspicuous in the light of the conflagration, lay the dead body of a woman__he white face turned upward, the hands thrown out and clutched full of grass, the clothing deranged, the long dark hair in tangles and full of clotted blood. The greater part of the forehead was torn away, and from the jagged hole the brain protruded, overflowing the temple, a frothy mass of gray, crowned with clusters of crimson bubbles__he work of a shell.The child moved his little hands, making wild, uncertain gestures. He uttered a series of inarticulate and indescribable cries__omething between the chattering of an ape and the gobbling of a turkey__ startling, soulless, unholy sound, the language of a devil. The child was a deaf mute.Then he stood motionless, with quivering lips, looking down upon the wreck.
Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That__ why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because if_ as the war ends, or at least starts to end_ if, at this time, the history of the war is written as us going there to topple the regime of a bad man when that frankly isn__ why were told that we were going there_ Aren__ we still at risk of making this horrific mistake again? And, aren__ we letting the people who foisted the WMD idea on us, not many years ago, aren__ we sort of letting them get away with it?
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Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That__ why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because if_ as the war ends, or at least starts to end_ if, at this time, the history of the war is written as us going there to topple the regime of a bad man when that frankly isn__ why were told that we were going there_ Aren__ we still at risk of making this horrific mistake again? And, aren__ we letting the people who foisted the WMD idea on us, not many years ago, aren__ we sort of letting them get away with it?
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