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Article: The need to beat somebody up: PBS offers an in-depth look at 'Bush's War'.(Opinion & ARTS)(Public Broadcasting Service)(Television program review)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- March 21, 2008
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In "Duck Soup," the Marx Brothers' satire on the irrationality of war, Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho), dictator of the republic of Freedonia, arbitrarily slaps the ambassador from neighboring Sylvania in the face with his glove. The sputtering ambassador declares, "This is warrr!" And the entire government of Freedonia--congress, courts, military--celebrates in a Broadway song-and-dance routine.
As the Bush presidency collapses like a deflated balloon, the media try to make sense out of what must be the strangest--and most tragic--administration in our history. Those who stood by as Mr. Bush bullied us into the attack on Iraq no longer defend the indefensible, ...