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By Jack Joseph Smith

And even though you won't be seeing any oil refineries being blown up on television There will be the Mark Twain half truth addage inverted in their spin Although another addage, which is "less is more" in it's term of the oppisite will apply In that for the owner's of the oil looking down the road, to future's, as it is, there will certainly be more oil for them Because the owners via the governments, hired contractors To go on through all of Iraq And perform the easiest of their enginnering tasks Which was and remains the procediure of turning it all off

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Televised silence around Iraqi refineries becomes part of the procedure, ensuring future oil while the mechanics of extraction remain mostly invisible.

This page continues the previous one by making media omission itself a tactic. Mark Twain, "less is more," owners, governments, and contractors all collapse into one cynical logic where war becomes engineering maintenance. The final handwritten phrase matters because it gives the whole process a switch: the procedure is to turn the system off and on at will.

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A policy poem disguised as a comedy about addages. Mark Twain gets half-truth-inverted, mess-is-more replaces less-is-more, and the real procediure is revealed in the handwritten coda: turning it all off. The spin is the job, and the job is concealment.