The Cruelest Month

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The Cruelest Month
By WILLIAM SAFIRE

WASHINGTON - "April is the cruelest month," wrote T. S. Eliot in "The Waste
Land." This April cruelly set back democracy and antiterrorism in Iraq.

Casualties reached a peak. A Marine commander had to appeal to a Republican
Guard general to come to terms with Baathist insurgents in Falluja.
President Bush had to express America's disgust at the humiliation of Iraqi
prisoners by a handful of sadistic guards. Taken together, that's about as
bad as it gets.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/03/opinion/03SAFI.html

"a T.S. Eliot April." (GR35)