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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate?
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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (1324)3/16/2005 3:50:04 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (2) of 9838
 
Brian,

Re: yet nary a word on the heinous acts committed against the troops which could easily lead someone to take matters into their own hands, after seeing what they see.

Some of us are old enough to have been alive during the Viet Nam atrocities. What we are witnessing in Iraq and Afghanistan today is very similar.

Basically, the U.S. is a foreign invading imperial colonial force that has ZERO moral legitimacy and is loathed by the impacted populations. It is the mere presence of the Yanqui Ali Babas that incites local populations into revolt against the yoke of tyranny.

You might recall George Washington, Tom Jefferson and Ben Franklin felt much the same about the British East Indies Company and George III's Hessian mercenaries.

Basically, the difference between clear-thinking moderates like Orca, myself and others here on this thread and muddle-headed ideologues who've come unhinged from reality is that we realize that the atrocities being committed by both sides in Iraq are almost 100% the result of the imperialist grasping of American corporations lusting after Iraq's natural resource wealth. We're not nearly so blind as are the fools who only listen to the pabulum spooned out to them in dollops of mythology by the perverted propagandists at Faux News and the Limbaugh crowd.

The war in Iraq is about conquest of natural resources. Once you accept this reality, everything else makes sense in its own perverted way.

As was stated so wisely by Lt. Gen. Smedley Butler seven decades ago, "war is just a racket":
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