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We may not yet be in a World War, however...I am convinced that the war profiteers behind the military-industrial complex invented the "war on terror" in order to make money hand over fist, with the Bush Administration issuing no-bid contracts and signing blank checks over to them faster than you can say capital gains tax cut for the rich.
Remember the war on drugs? We fought that as we looked the other way while the Contras dealt drugs to support their battle. The Taliban had actually put a serious dent in the heroin trade in Afghanistan, however now that we have overthrown them and installed a new "democratic" puppet regime, the heroin business is rebounding in a big way.
The Bush Admistration also used the war on terror to do an end around on the intelligence community by creating a Homeland Security Department, stacked with like-minded foot soldiers of the military-industrialists.
Oh yes, and they secretly tapped our phones and computers, have installed cameras everywhere, and otherwise invaded our privacy, all in the name of freedom as well.
In order to do war with the terrorists our government sets up secret prisons (and some not so secret ones like Gitmo), and torture people while ignoring the Geneva Convention, because we are better than the terrorists.
The "doublespeak" (see Orwell) that is emanating from Washington DC is ominous. Words that many of us hold sacred like "freedom", "liberty", "justice" and "equality" are being raped and abused before our eyes by the very people entrusted to protect and preserve them.
I shake my head when I see how much they have refined doublespeak since the days of Jeanne Kirkpatrick's differentiation between Dictorships and Totalitarian regimes.
If truth is the first casualty of war, then perhaps WWIII has already started.
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