DISPATCH FROM A PUNCTUATION MARK. In Iraq, at least 10 Iraqi army and police officers have died and more than 1,200 fell violently ill after eating a cyanide-laced chicken dinner at their base. Just another all-too-forgettable occurrence deep inside George Bush's "historical comma." Meanwhile, what appears to Bush to be no bloodier than a Lynn Truss lecture feels, it would seem, pretty damn real to the folks this NBC correspondent describes.
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Ezra Klein
