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Tierra_y_Libertad

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5. Erect Bogeyman, wave flag, declare we need protection, give more money to the MIC.

Reply to yurbud (Original post)

Mon Sep 1, 2014, 11:27 AM

Sep 2014

Works every time.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H.L. Mencken

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Is the military-industrial crowd throwing all kinds of shit at the wall to see what sticks? [View all] yurbud Aug 2014 OP

The military-industrial crowd is going to do whatever big financial interests want it to do. Louisiana1976 Aug 2014 #1

Other: OilemFirchen Aug 2014 #2

so the turmoil in the world isn't our government's doing OR not their doing? yurbud Aug 2014 #3

. yurbud Sep 2014 #4

Erect Bogeyman, wave flag, declare we need protection, give more money to the MIC. Tierra_y_Libertad Sep 2014 #5

I hadn't seen that one before. yurbud Sep 2014 #6

Not many people see the world as it really is. LuvNewcastle Sep 2014 #7

No, there are real trouble spots that we are right to be concerned with. TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #8

If the world were really as simple as people here want to believe BainsBane Sep 2014 #9

No Isis? "Homeland Security warns of possible Isis attack on U.S. border" jakeXT Sep 2014 #10

What would they gain from that because giving us an excuse to kill a lot of them? yurbud Sep 2014 #11

I meant in your list ... ISIS coming to the US border /nt jakeXT Sep 2014 #15

If our government was worried about the threat from "ISIS," they would have told our allies in the yurbud Sep 2014 #12

Do you remember all those terror alerts after 9/11? yurbud Sep 2014 #14

Another one: "Missing Libyan jetliners raise fears of terror attacks on 9/11" jakeXT Sep 2014 #16

Washington Times? That's a bit sketchy. The question with a story like that is "therefore what"? yurbud Sep 2014 #17

Is our strawmen learning? nt Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2014 #13