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Last month, I heard Seymour Hersh, who exposed the My Lai massacre in Vietnam 36 years ago and Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse more recently, at a fundraiser for journalistic freedom. He began by saying he would be offering no hope for the course that his nation, the U.S., is on, especially in Iraq. He didn't try to be eloquent or even structured. He rambled from grim insight to grim insight.

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