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To: goldsnow who wrote (15519)	6/25/2002 6:05:45 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

Vidal goes further than merely quoting someone using the dread C-word. He declares straight out that "although media and schools condition Americans to start giggling at the mention of the word 'conspiracy,' there are, at any moment, all sorts of conspiracies crisscrossing our spacious skies and amber fields of grain." He goes on to write that of all the conspiracies of the 20th century, "the largest, most intricate, and finally most successful was that of the British to get us [i.e., the United State] into the Second World War." Winding up the same paragraph, he writes, "There was indeed a vast conspiracy to maneuver an essentially isolationist [i.e., anti-interventionist] country into war. There was also a dedicated conspiracy to destroy Lindbergh's reputation as hero." (p. 131) Excerpted from: thornwalker.com