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...ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b and obsession with the "precious." "Richard Clarke has worked for four presidents, has advised them of national security issues throughout his public service.

Apparently, his work was such that both Republican and Democratic administrations kept Mr.

Clarke on board - so why should we believe you and the Bush Administration when you say he's misrepresenting the facts?

" Bradley asked.

"Because we hates it, precious...

yes...

We hates the stupid fat bald Dick Clarke with the fatty pale foreheadses, yes," Rice growled, glaring at Bradley from beneath her heavily hooded eyes.

"Why?

" Bradley asked.

"It steals our nation's security, it does, the filthy, nasty Dick Clarke does, yes," Rice answered.

"Our nation's security is mine!

MINE!

Curse the dirty Dick Clarke, it steals our precious!

" Bradley asked about Clarke's assertion that, when he first brought up the topic of Al Qaeda to the newly installed Rice in 2001, she didn't seem to know who they were.

"Dick Clarke was our friend - it tells Condi who Al Qaeda is when Condi doesn't know who Al Qaeda is!

" Rice cooed brightly in response.

"Dick Clarke was riddling us.

It sez, 'Who is Al Qaeda?

' and we screams, 'It isn't a fair question!

It must give us three guesseses - three, precious, yes.' and Dick Clarke says okay, three guesses, but we didn't guesses right, did we, precious?

No, we did not guesses right.

But Dick Clarke, it tells us anyways!

Dirty, filthy Dick Clarke was good to poor, poor Condi." "But then Dick ...

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I live in San Antonio, Texas.

I live in a bicultural society.

My wife is of Mexican descent.

That's just who we are." Given this background, it seems fair to assume that Three Burials is a political statement.

Absolutely, says Arriaga.

Jones is more cautious about pinning labels on the film.

"There is an argument that every breath you take is a political act," he says.

"I prefer to let the movie speak for itself.

I just like to get out of the way, personally." Part of the purpose of Three Burials was to show the common humanity of the characters on either side of the border, as well as their differences.

Pete forces Pepper's character, Mike, to recognise Melquiades as a fully rounded human being, and not merely as a "wetback", and to acknowledge the loss that his death represents.

Forgiveness and redemption are core themes.

For both Arriaga and Jones the film was a chance to shatter stereotypes.

"Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal.

It's just not a good way to think.

It's non-thinking," says Jones.

"They're stupid and destructive points of view that lead to all kinds of trouble." Interestingly, Pete's way of making Mike see Malequiades as a person - making him wear the dead man's clothes, drink from his cup, and so on - mirrors the way Jones made his cast prepare for their roles.

It was tough-going, by all accounts.

Pepper was packed off to camp in the mountains alone, and given Ecclesiastes and Catholic author Mary Flannery O...