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 George Tenet's charm
covers his arms
as a velvet sheath
covers a bloodied sword.
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George Tenet head of Murder read more 
 George Tenet's charm
covers his arms
as a velvet sheath
covers a bloodied sword.
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George Tenet head of Murder Inc. whose agency has
had Afghanis die under their interrogation
cannot be trusted not to plant WMD's in Iraq. 
 O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
 That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
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 O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
 That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
  Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
   That ever lived in the tide of times.
    Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! 
 Erroneous vassals! the great King of Kings
 Hath in the table of his law commanded
  That thou read more 
 Erroneous vassals! the great King of Kings
 Hath in the table of his law commanded
  That thou shalt do no murder. Will you then
   Spurn at his edict, and fulfil a man's? 
 Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies.
 The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.  
 Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies.
 The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes. 
Absolutism tempered by assassination.
Absolutism tempered by assassination.
 Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
 Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
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 Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
 Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
  The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
   Making the green one red. 
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at read more
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.
There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.