PURPLE PROSE ALERT #2

Purple prose is not the only way to sterilize the language. Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top
U.S. military commander in Iraq, demonstrated a colorless, odorless, antiseptic method earlier this
week when asked if Saddam Hussein was cooperating with interrogaters. “In my interfaces with
him he has been talkative,” Sanchez said. Since the general is leading the fight to “triumph over
tyranny” and “drain the swamp of terror,” as David Brooks put it yesterday (see Purple Prose Alert #1), we’ll throw in another
metaphor and “cut him some slack.”

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