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March 31, 2004 -- 01:34 AM EDT // link // print)
Reading the lede of this piece from Reuters, I had to wonder whether I might actually be reading a spoof from The Onion ...
An emotional former President George H.W. Bush on Tuesday defended his son's Iraq war and lashed out at White House critics.
It is "deeply offensive and contemptible" to hear "elites and intellectuals on the campaign trail" dismiss progress in Iraq since last year's overthrow of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the elder Bush said in a speech to the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association annual convention.
Defies parody ...
-- Josh Marshall
(March 31, 2004 -- 12:03 AM EDT // link // print) 
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