I Have A Simple Question For The Class... DO YOU... In Total... Respect Our Government/System ???

[HardTimes99]

55. Great post. I wonder if LBJ really was the first president to lie us into war. McKinley may not

have lied us into the Spanish-American war the way LBJ did in Vietnam (having the yellow journalism of the Hearst and Pulitzer papers to do the heavy lifting), but he certainly didn't speak out against the lies and propaganda.

I take a slightly different tack from you, in that I see the government as protecting and serving the interests of the global elite and not so much its own institutional prerogatives per se. We're spending a gazillion dollars a year on this absolute shit and at the same time many American children are going hungry each month. It's an utter disgrace and a true sign of just exactly what representing is going on.

I'm really sorry about your uncle. He was as much a victim as the 58,000+ whose names are engraved on the wall or the 2-3 million estimated civilian victims in southeast Asia.