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Yes and good point Q!

oleeb — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:22:21 +0000

In reply to Howard Zinn: We Cannot Tolerate War

Yes and good point Q!

We should not forget the

Qwerty — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:02:41 +0000

In reply to Howard Zinn: We Cannot Tolerate War

We should not forget the blow-by-blow enactment of a pyramid of lies to program the people into blind or reluctant support for war. The Iraq WMD propaganda was stunning in its blitz proportion - in terms of breadth and depth, encompassing, embedding mass media from all angles in a steady, daily, relentless bombardment till it reached the hysterical, cathartic pitch of Shock and Awe. That was a horrible war crime perpetrated on a civilian city, yet Americans were feeling righteous. What overcame me was intense nausea, not only at the scale of the crime but also at the brainwashed state of the majority who presumed they were doing good applauding the "fireworks" which rained hell on a innocent population, fathers, mothers, sons and daughters.

How easy it was.

Was the Middle East around

Qwerty — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:50:38 +0000

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Was the Middle East around then? It seems to come full circle back to the thread, Boston Punk and War.

Ah, you're from the

Qwerty — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:46:24 +0000

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Ah, you're from the respectable one, that Beacon on the Hill one.

And yet we just had a

Libertine — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:32:20 +0000

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And yet we just had a president go in front of the Nobel Foundation, accepting their peace prize, and lecture them about the necessity of preemptive war.

Too bad our leaders aren't paying more attention to what Zinn has to say on our foreign policy. And for that matter too bad they aren't paying closer attention to Paul Krugman on the economy. But that is for another day and post...