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Into the twilight of early evening The sky turned cinder-black, the rain still fell aberrantly but I could feel the telling rise of wind, the smell of the flowers now nearly overmastered, the lights of the stores presupposing the significance of nightfall. I sat under the boardwalk on the square, the courthouse, restored, heroic, quiescent, rising splendidly o'er the verdant green of the lawn, the street, the oleander and magnolia, a low suggestive thunderpeal and then silence, still no rain from the oleaginous heavens but only the smell of rain, the promise, the covenant of rain; I looked up from my reading with each low reverberation, each amalgamation of sound and silence – for indeed that’s what it was; there was no clipped line, cutoff, between the silence and the thunder and the silence again, but only a dim, ill-defined effluvium of half-silence and half-sound, easily as forbidding (and quite possibly more so) than either the pure sound or the pure hush – and then down aga
Why I oppose the war - by Daniel Brugioni 1. Bush (whom I think has had a disastrous run as a President) first advocated war because of Iraq's supposed nuclear arms build up. There was never any proof of any nuclear arms build up (at least none that was ever submitted to the UN or the world at large.) US "intelligence" submitted photos to the UN but (according to the Chicago Tribune) they were dismissed when it was determined that they had been doctored. 2. Failing to find any evidence of a nuclear program, Bush started the al Qaeda link theory. Again, no proof was ever submitted to the UN or the world at large. Again, the al Qaeda and Hussein's Baath Party are not allies, though they may be after this war is over. 3. I don't doubt that there are chemical and biological weapons in Iraq or with their allies. But again, there is NO proof that these still exist. (And if they do, why exactly hasn't Iraq, essentially a defenseless country, star