I can't wait to read your _objective_ commentary on those days in the 1950s.
I still haven't seen a word of support from people like you for
President Bush. And there won't be. It isn't in you. So, move to
Iraq. It is war, Baby.
>The idiotic filth in _100 Days_ contributed to the horror of these hours.
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>>At 11:58 am 11/9/01 -0400, Richard Dillon wrote:
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>>>But the poetry community has been attacking this President since he
>>>got started.
>>>_100 Days_ was its preeminent attack.
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>>>Poetry, now, operates in current history. Unlike Blake, many current
>>>poets stand, it seems, with the enemies of the United States.
>>>
>>>I await the moment with the writers in _100 Days_ declare their
>>>allegiance with Bin Lauden. It would be an honest thing to do.
>>>
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>>As someone currently cut off by phone from a friend in DC, able only to
>>wait for the cross-Atlantic phone lines to start working again, and also as
>>a friend of the editors of 100 Days, I find it unfortunate that while I
>>cannot phone my friend to find out whether he is safe, this kind of idiotic
>>filth could make it across the same communication lines. The war-mongering
>>leaders of the US and my own government have bombed civilians in Iraq, the
>>Sudan and elsewhere: this is no justification for the loss of civilian life
>>in the US presently, just as the actions of Bin Laden could never justify
>>our _illegal_ attacks. And no, no-one has to claim allegiance with Bin
>>Laden to feel outrage at US/UK policy, that is so outrageously simplistic
>>that my day's research in the library on America in the McCarthyite 1950s
>>is brought suddenly and frighteningly into focus.
>>
>>yours in anger,
>>
>>Malcolm Phillips
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