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Originally Posted by GreyWolf
It's hard to get any real truth anyways when you are dealing with total liars - tho amazingly unfair on the families of those affected, but, it has been like that for some time and the "use and abuse" scenario is unlikely to change.
It's all about fear control using "we have enemies" and "we are under threat" therefore we need to attack as a defense. From that angle, 9/11 was very convenient.
9/11 never was the first terrorist attack, tho you'd think it was. There was plenty sympathy internationally after 9/11 and sure valid - but actions since then have almost wiped that off the map. Another example of CIA - Clueless-Idiots-in-Action.
Another aspect is the "use and abuse" - it's not only people in the Middle East who have been abused - out of all western countries, US people are the most used and abused by their government. They have been ripped off to unprecedented levels economically and persuaded to engage in a war which had no foundation other than the attempted glorification and profit-earning by the current administration and friends - disgusting specimens of the human race.
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The US led invasion of Afghanistan set a dangerous precedent for the American ability to launch illegal wars against nations which in reality pose little or no threat. It was a pushover. The American military basically beat down a crippled old man, just to see if they could get away with it, and guess what? THEY DID. No one stood up and made them accountable for starting an illegal war. They set a precedent which allowed them to move onward into Iraq with little or no worry of facing any outside intervention.
Americans are more full of shit than citizens of any other nationality, and I'm not blaming them on an individual basis, that's just not fair. I'm judging the population as a whole because that's the only way to look at it. Day in and day out from the moment you're born the media feeds you incredible amounts of shit, molds your opinions through disinformation and tactical propaganda. In a dictatorship or communist state there is little need for propaganda for those in power to accomplish their goals. Under a supposedly democratic rule, the NEED for propaganda as a means for the powerful to accomplish their aims is found in it's fullest. Americans are fed more bullshit only a daily basis than any other nationality the world over, and they wonder why everyone hate son them. They're easier to program than the timer on my VCR...