Wednesday, March 19, 2008

A dot more on Iraq.

I have typed 1000 dots here. Multiply each dot by around 800 and that's how many people we have killed in Iraq. Multiple each dot by 2000 and that's how many we have killed and maimed.

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The words below are from Carol Reed's and Graham Greene's movie "The Third Man." They are spoken by Orson Welles to Joseph Cotton. I put them here because they are about dots.

"Victims? Don't be melodramatic. Look down there. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare?"

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