I too agree with the post by Cnyndwllr.... completely.
However, I do believe what I am going to post here is and has been happening in out country :
"Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob
> >> on a
> >> farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it
> >> is to
> >> come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't
> >> want war
> >> neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany.
> >> That is
> >> understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who
> >> determine the
> >> policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along,
> >> whether it
> >> is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a
> >> communist
> >> dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to
> >> the
> >> bidding
> >> of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they
> >> are
> >> being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism
> >> and exposing
> >> the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
> >>
> >> .... Herman Goering, at the Nuremberg Trials
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