you can fool enough of the people most of the time, especially with
media controlled my mega corporations that just love the president and
wouldn't tell you if he raped choir boys (not that he does, i suspect
he's too incompetent for that.. or did i mean another word..).  there is
always a massive propaganda campaign before, during, and often after any
war on both/all sides, there is little effort by the media to debate
whether any of this propaganda is meaningful or sufficient justification
for the pending war.  note that i believe the dumbing down of u.s.
education is deliberate by many, as it allows politicians to more easily
pull the wool over the sheep that can't think and can only respond with
emotion.  by the way, i'm not joking, i do think it's deliberate on the
parts of many officials past and present.

Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
>=20
> > only countries and politicians "win" wars, the people on both sides
> > always lose, and lose a lot.
>=20
> In that sense I always wondered how anybody in his sane mind could say =
that
> war is good for the economy. May be on a very short time scale, while t=
he
> country is making debts and pumping that money into the economy, produc=
ing
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--=20
Philip Stortz--"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I
didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.=20
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a
Jew.=20
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I
wasn't a trade unionist.=20
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a
Protestant.=20
Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
-- Martin Niem=F6ller, 1892-1984 (German Lutheran Pastor), on the Nazi
Holocaust, Congressional Record 14th October 1968 p31636.



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