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KoKo

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5. Why do you believe so many Americans support this, though.
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 11:41 PM
Sep 2014

We've been lied to a Second Time to get us into War in ME and Cold War with Russia. The Khorosan threat is not real as Greenwald and National Security Experts now speaking out have shown.

So why do you believe people still buy this? And, why the resistance to Syria bombing a year ago and the sudden rush to war with acceptance by so many now? They tried talking about Assad gassing his own people (turns out that wasn't entirely true) and that seemed to horrify many...but, not enough for Obama to go for it.

What has changed? Was it that the PR Campaign is so much better better when ISIS in their White Toyota Trucks came riding through as "The Men in Black" with flags flying in such a theatrical way seeming straight out of Hollywood production followed by the the two beheadings that did it? We've seen beheadings before-- Philip Berg, etc. We saw Saddam and his sons displayed brutal ways along with Gadaffi's capture.

Plus, the movies today are far more gruesome and violent than those beheadings were. Even our Nightly News and Cable shows bloodied bodies from crimes scenes and other horrors ...so people should be even more used to it than years ago. So is it just a sudden lust for war because people are angry about other things here in their current lifestyles with our country not in the recovery we'd hoped for and want to take it out on "those terrorists over there?" Why the sudden rush? Why the cautions of "endless war?"


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Truth. scarletwoman Sep 2014 #1
Thank you. H2O Man Sep 2014 #11
There is an old principle taught to fledgeling officers at West Point. Jackpine Radical Sep 2014 #2
Possibility of Neocons working with RW Fundamentalists on Armageddon? KoKo Sep 2014 #10
"Do SOMETHING" ! H2O Man Sep 2014 #12
Or, to shamelessly paraphrase Jay Gould, Jackpine Radical Sep 2014 #14
Mecca and Medina RufusTFirefly Sep 2014 #3
Right. H2O Man Sep 2014 #13
I believe it will prove successful, here is one micro example. Uncle Joe Sep 2014 #4
Thanks. H2O Man Sep 2014 #16
I agree, H2O Man, Cheney/Bush left a mess. Uncle Joe Sep 2014 #18
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To answer part of your question F4lconF16 Sep 2014 #6
Unfortunately, as a nation we citizens react to things personally, at gut level HereSince1628 Sep 2014 #7
Fair Enough....but the photos of children from GAZA Bombings KoKo Sep 2014 #9
Great questions. H2O Man Sep 2014 #17
Heart of Lothian seveneyes Sep 2014 #8
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