I'd like to know: Eduardo Galeano wonders what George W Bush knows that we don't. (Essay).

From: New Internationalist | Date: May 1, 2003| Author: Galeano, Eduardo | Copyright information

In the middle of last year, while he was cooking up this war, George W Bush declared that 'we must be ready to attack in any dark corner of the world'. I guess Iraq must be a dark corner of the world. Does Bush think Texas was the cradle of civilization and his fellow Texans invented writing? Has he never heard of the Library at Nineveh or the Tower of Babel or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Does he not know any of the stories of A Thousand and One Nights?

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