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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (153758)12/11/2004 12:02:49 PM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
<think that level of deception is damaging for a democracy and drives an even bigger wedge between people on each side of the thinking divide. And that's the "purpose" of revealing such clear cut examples of lies and deceits. Ed

The deception can go on for quite some time. It can get to absurd levels and people would continue to die for no reason.

Lyndon B Johnson who enlarged the Vietnam War to absurd levels would turn on the Generals and Officers that he bullied into telling lies about how well the war was going.

When things got really bad (absurd), he would ask his Officers why if he adds up all the body count reports of enemy soldiers killed and wounded, how could there be any enemy combatants left to fight?

Of course there was no answer to that because everyone was pushed into making up body counts (and officers were probably promoted because of their lies) and telling the President what he wanted (and ordered) to hear.

I think this is going to happen again. Everybody in the military chain of command knows what the President wants to hear and that is what they are going to tell him.

When it becomes impossible to continue this lie, the President will turn on the last person that contiues to tell him what he wants to hear.

You know, it will go something like "You go to war with the army that you have and not with the army you would like to have ...yada, yada, yada...."

That is what everyone told me, but knowing what I know now, I wouldn't change a thing..... I wouldn't want people to think I didn't have resolve ....like all those Clinton people.....yada, yada, yada....

The more things change, the more things stay the same.
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