The propaganda and brainwashing machines are already kicked into overdrive, and these maniacs are beating their drums daily, despite the fact of an already voiceless populace screaming silently into the wind how tired we are of the CURRENT debacles they have us enmeshed into.
It certainly does appear these ever greedy war profiteers are going to do as they please and start up the next disaster, and their co-conspirators, the MSM will be their willing accomplices, yet again. De Ja Vu, round two...
Voting for “antiwar” Democrats two years ago didn’t end the war. Even millions in the streets, peacefully demonstrating as the system encourages, didn’t prevent the assault on Iraq over five years ago. Now there’s feasible political recourse to stop an attack on Iran. And little time to mobilize mass demonstrations against it. It will come as a thief in the night, presented to the American people as a fait accompli. As the Bush-Cheney cowboys ride off into the sunset, smirkin’ and grinnin’ and slapping each other’s backs, the people will start to pay.
A character in Bertolt Brecht’s The Beggar’s Opera asks what’s worse---robbing a bank, or owning a bank? The system itself, that is to say, is the criminal product of wrongly acquired wealth, much of it obtained through imperialist war. Exposure alone, no matter how voluminous, eloquent and persuasive, will not change it.
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