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these people worked as night clerks in pizza shops in West Virginia. This not -- this is not verysophisticated. She came back and she left her husband. She just had been married before. She lefther husband, moved out of the house, moved out of the city, moved out to another home, anotherapartment in another city and began working a different job. And moved away from everybody.Then over -- as the spring went on, she would go every weekend, this daughter, and everyweekend she would go to a tattoo shop and get large black tattoos put on her, over increasingly --over her body, the back, the arms, the legs, and her mother was frantic. What's going on? ComesAbu Ghraib, and she reads the stories, and she sees it. And she says to her daughter, "Were youthere?" She goes to the apartment. The daughter slams the door. The mother then goes -- thedaughter had come home -- before she had gone to Iraq, the mother had given her a portablecomputer. One of the computers that had a DVD in it, with the idea being that when she wasthere, she could watch movies, you know, while she was overseas, sort of a -- I hadn't thoughtabout it, a great idea. Turns out a lot of people do it. She had given her a portable computer, andwhen the kid came back she had returned it, one of the things, and the mother then said I wentand looked at the computer. She knows -- she doesn't know about depression. She doesn't knowabout Freud. She just said, I was just -- I was just going to clean it up, she said. I had decided touse it again. She wouldn't say anything more why she went to look at it after Abu Ghraib. Sheopened it up, and sure enough there was a file marked "Iraq". She hit the button. Out came 100photographs. They were photographs that became -- one of them was published. We publishedone, just one in The New Yorker. It was about an Arab. This is something no mother should seeand daughter should see too. It was the Arab man leaning against bars, the prisoner naked, twodogs, two shepherds, remember, on each side of him. The New Yorker published it, a prettylarge photograph. What we didn't publish was the sequence showed the dogs did bite the man --pretty hard. A lot of blood. So she saw that and she called me, and away we go. There's anotherstory.For me, it's just another story, but out of this comes a core of -- you know, we all deal in "macro"in Washington. On the macro, we're hopeless. We're nowhere. The press is nowhere. Thecongress is nowhere. The military is nowhere. Every four-star General I know is saying, "Who isgoing to tell them we have no clothes?" Nobody is going to do it. Everybody is afraid to tellRumsfeld anything. That's just the way it is. It's a system built on fear. It's not lack of integrity,it's more profound than that. Because there is individual integrity. It's a system that's completelybeen taken over -- by cultists. Anyway, what's going to happen, I think, as the casualties mountand these stories get around, and the mothers see the cost and the fathers see the cost, as the kidscome home. And the wounded ones come back, and there's wards that you will never hear about.That's wards -- you know about the terrible catastrophic injuries, but you don't know about thevegetables. There's ward after ward of vegetables because the brain injuries are so enormous. Asyou maybe read last week, there was a new study in one of the medical journals that the numberof survivors are greater with catastrophic injuries because of their better medical treatment andthe better armor they have. So you get more extreme injuries to extremities. We're going to learnmore and I think you're going to see, it's going to -- it's -- I'm trying to be optimistic. We're goingto see a bottom swelling from inside the ranks. You're beginning to see it. What happened withthe soldiers asking those questions, you may see more of that. I'm not suggesting we're going tohave mutinies, but I'm going to suggest you're going to see more dissatisfaction being expressed.Maybe that will do it. Another salvation may be the economy. It's going to go very bad, folks.You know, if you have not sold your stocks and bought property in Italy, you better do it quick.71