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Originally posted by firestarter666
but yes i think that the media has influnced the public so muchi might as well call it brainwashing, if u hav a better word, use it
Originally posted by firestarter666
but yes i think that the media has influnced the public so muchi might as well call it brainwashing, if u hav a better word, use it
Originally posted by Goldenshellback
Veterans who served knows this game we play, mind games. I think you are not very good at it. Some people here would have you so dumb founded, you would be scratching your head for weeks.
Marg, I can be honest with you. Worry to much and jump on the band wagon to sell snake oil to cure all ailment to people.
You have been sucked into a con by a slick salesman. It happens to people with good hearts.
All of this what is going on, it has been coming for a long time to this point. Sorry, but you have no faith in people, your family yes, not people.
Don't take it wrong, freedom of speech, freedom I have just like you. Bashing Bush does not solve anything or cure your paranoid state.
Truth is what you are seeking, I am being honest to you is truth. You have to stand for something, not falling for someone's else con of truth. Many people fall because they deserted faith, for a false promises.
But it is up to you in the end to figure out.
Originally posted by Thomas Crowne
ECK, the problem with this continuos, nonstop theme of yours is that it is purely speculative in nature.
True enough, governments have used manufactured situations to bring about their desires. Nero burned Rome in order to create a cause for the slaughter of Christians, Hitler used the Reichstag, Roosevelt Hawaii, etc.
The question is, is the hatred displayed by the likes of you and Marg driving your thoughts? I believe it is as notions are sold as facts, and that is a definite red flag to anyone with an operational brain.
True enough, war was sold to the German population by illusion and trickery, but was the capture of mainland Europe an illusion to the other Europeans, or to the English?
So far as I can see, while the entire world and both parties were convinced that Hussein had the weapons or the means by which to build them and then hand them off to the terrorists who would deploy them against the West, either Hussein has not had them in a while, or has buried them very well, or they were (as I suspect) handed off to Syria during the strangely long build-up. Here's another thing I've noticed. Every one of the conspiratorial reasons that are stated as facts by you guys have fizzled. The icing on the cake is the recent election in Iraq. If you think there will be any lasting friendship between them and the U.S., you are about as nuts as can be. There'll be no strategic launching point for the U.S. to invade Syria or Iran as the new government is going to be friendly with those countries, and we will have no chance to "steal" oil as so many of you have claimed.
Originally posted by EastCoastKid
It seems like people are just hard-wired to not like or trust what they don't know/understand. Racism resides in the heart of all men. We either act on it or cast it out. And it's the very foundation of this war on terror. If people would just wtf up and see it for what it is, things would be vastly different. But then again, I fear this country of ours has embraced its inner racist.
Originally posted by Goldenshellback
Tell your hubby I know what it feels like playing head games, like playing racket ball with your head........
Before I go, who is the hell is Thomas
Golden Shellback.................................King Neptune Rex Royal Court has been canceled due to SeaHorse water polo
Originally posted by Goldenshellback
No sweat, Marg. And thank you for the comment of how I write. You were civil to me, even if I am a rock head.
Originally posted by dgtempe
ECK- Another fabulous post, and thank you for once again pointing out the truth.
There's an element here now who want nothing better than for the few of us "enlightened" ones to go away.
They are resorting to violent accusations now. Did you know i am a liar??? yes, thats right. I have "the label" from a certain pompous ars drama queen now.
That wont stop me from posting about the injustices in this world.
The American Nightmare
From the bogus to the outrageous to the illegal, we are now living the American Nightmare.
By Steve Fowle
Who’s Funding Terrorists Now?
A few members of the gung-ho gang seem willing to admit, off the record, that a thing or two didn’t go quite right in Iraq. But they argue that lessons were learned in Iraq, and so future pre-emptive, unilateral wars will undoubtedly go better.
It’s not clear what lessons were learned in Afghanistan, or who learned them. Last year’s opium crop broke all records, even those set by the Taliban, when they were actively encouraging poppy farming. Under the accommodating Mr. Musharraf, this branch of agriculture is booming. Unfortunately, that metaphorical boom is translating into actual booms, because the profits are funding terrorists.
www.interventionmag.com...
The BBC: premier propagandist for the imperium
by William Bowles • 10 February 2005
Washington, DC, Feb. 8 (UPI) — If the serial decapitator Abu Musab al-Zarqawi did not exist, then the Bush administration, the Atlantic Alliance and the rest of the civilized world might have to invent him.
‘Walker’s World: Why Rice should thank Zarqawi’ By Martin Walker
UPI Editor. www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050208-060649-1569r.htm
I have written about the mythological Abu Musab al-Zarqawi several times before as have other writers. The question we need to ask is why does the state and hence its servant, the corporate media have need of such a ‘person’? Walker’s article opened with the quote above, a very revealing statement but one that I made here some time last year but for very different reasons. Walker goes on
This poisonous Jordanian terrorist has done the world a service. Almost at a stroke he has eased away the accumulated grievances between Washington and Paris, between America and Europe, by couching the struggle in Iraq in terms that force even the French onto the side of President Bush.
Walker bases his assertion on the following quote by the alleged Zarqawi
“We are at war with democracy,” Zarqawi declared, in an announcement that coincided with the Iraqi elections on Jan. 30. “Democracy is an evil principle.”
How convenient of ‘Zarqawi’ who, in common with ‘Osama bin Laden’ manages to say just the ‘right’ thing at just the ‘right’ time. Walker goes on to say
Zarqawi’s timing was perfect. His fighting words came just in time to guarantee Condi Rice a splendid hearing in Paris; just in time to help Tony Blair explain to the House of Commons why Britain and the United States could now start to think in terms of reducing their troop numbers; just in time to help sweeten the double cease-fire announcement from Israeli and Palestinian leaders in Sharm el-Sheikh.
www.williambowles.info...
Originally posted by EastCoastKid
Exactly. Try reading a variety of sources instead of just the ones you feel safe with. You might be surprised at what you'll learn. That is, if you're not afraid of that.
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
Not sure how I missed this. But man, you just got caught in your own hypocrisy.
Originally posted by marg6043
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
Yes the new masterminded evil terrorist, now plotting all the horrible bombings in Iraq.
He has a face we have seen it on TV, he has a description and he is even handicap.
He is elusive and resourceful and he is coming to near city next to you
I bet all Iraqis that are missing a leg are hiding right now.