[Ads-l] Catchphrase: The spice must flow

[Bill Mullins]

2002 heartattack #35 Aug  59/1

 If Iraq exported something useless to the empire and not priceless like oil, “containment” and “weapons of mass destruction” and “war against terror” wouldn’t even be in the same sentence as “Iraq.” The spice must flow.

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There's a line in colonial American poet Edward Taylor's (1642-1729) poem Meditations 131:

If thou feedst on my Spice, my Spice must flow



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