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It seems to me that it's fairly profoundly inappropriate to prioritize U.S. citizens bemoaning the failure of the United States to "gain" anything in Iraq, over. You know. Iraqi citizens living in a rapidly moving warzone.

I hate the U.S. news media.

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More cheerfully, we culled the book herd here this morning, and my family went off to the used book shop with eight bags and one cardboard box that formerly held wine bottles full of books to see what they could get for them.

Goodbye books! Find new lives!