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aeroplane
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 Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:19 pm Post subject: 85% of US Troops believe Saddam is connected to 9/11! |
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Holy shit. 85% of US Troops
believe that what they are doing is payback for Saddam's connection to 9/11??? Man, what's going to happen when they wake up one day to find that reality paradigm shattered like a bathroom mirror reflecting back the ugly face of truth? 
It's time to stop lying to these kids who grew up on Prozac and Nintendo's wargames as a replacement for parenting.  These children, who learned the value of the dollar, but not the value of their own lives, will one day come home.
You need to read down about 2/3 down the article to find that statistic among several, but I think this 85% is the most important of all. When these boys and girls realize that they've wasted so much of their youth to fight and die for a lie that we all knew before the war began, they are going to be very angry indeed.
They were really kept in the dark. Holy shit!
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Johnny J
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:27 am Post subject: |
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It may be that subconsciously they really know what's going on but that they have to deceive themselves to make sense of what they're doing and where they're at. Rationalization. Justification.
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| In STARS & STRIPES, a U.S. soldier wrote: |
Bush's sorry legacy
Three years after "shock and awe," now it's called "the Long War," just as the CATO Institute in 2003 said it would be.
Last month, President Bush casually informed Americans that troops would remain there past his second term, which ends on Jan. 20, 2009, and not a moment too soon. What a disaster Bush will leave Americans when calculating the costs of his generational commitment to "democratize" the Middle East. Columbia and Harvard economics professors estimate the U.S. invasion/occupation of Iraq through 2010 will cost taxpayers $1 trillion, minimum.
In "The True Costs of the Iraq War," Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University professor of economics) states, "One cannot help but wonder: Were there alternative ways of spending a fraction of the war's $1-$2 trillion in costs that would have better strengthened security, boosted prosperity, and promoted democracy?"
And spared lives? Clearly, but at a loss of billions in contracts to Halliburton/KBR, Bechtel and the Carlyle Group, of which George H.W. Bush is senior adviser. If it weren't for war, the Bush family empire would be bankrupt. Self-enrichment is why Bush and (British Prime Minister) Tony Blair were determined to launch an invasion against Iraq. That's why Iran is next.
Bush has said that he wouldn't be in Iraq if not for a good reason. Bush isn't in Iraq, and neither are members of his family. Some soldiers are on their third deployment and wish to be liberated from stop loss. Bush likely won't initiate a "front-door" draft before the elections, which means more troop deployments until help -- a new Congress and commander in chief -- arrives.
Bush's policy of touting peace and democracy while dropping bombs on oil-producing countries and promoting crony capitalism in an America deteriorating into a feudal backwater will be Bush's legacy as the worst president in U.S. history.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/3/0323/32039 |
There's entries on both sides of the ledger...as always.
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