December 27, 2006

Bush Is Reading Again

I am starting to wonder if the White House is taking the piss or trying to send coded messages. The latest book on Bush's list is quite astonishing: "King Leopold's Ghost" by Adam Hochschild:
King Leopold convinced the undoubtedly "well-informed" people of Belgium of the need to liberate the backward but freedom-hungry black Africans from a bunch of crazy Arab slave traders and to expand "free-trade." Sound familiar?

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