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Showing Original Post only (View all)Is the military-industrial crowd throwing all kinds of shit at the wall to see what sticks? [View all]
Last edited Sun Aug 31, 2014, 09:17 PM - Edit history (1)
Seriously, demonizing Russia and to a lesser extent China, destabilizing a different Middle East country every week, going back to Iraq, trying to use our destabilization effort in Syria as an excuse to bomb that country...
I kind of expect to hear that Germany has made a secret anti-US pact with Mexico and Great Britain is pressing American sailors into the Royal Navy at sea any day now.
Or possibly a civil war at home or alien invasion.
They will keep going until some shit sticks.
Or are we just the innocent victims of a world coming apart and coming after us?
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They are going to throw shit at the wall until it sticks and the public buys something. | |
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They don't care whether we believe it or not. They will start some or all of these wars if it benefits the financial interests who call the shots in Washington | |
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Our government is just the innocent victim of a world coming apart and are doing their best to help other countries | |
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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
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The military-industrial crowd is going to do whatever big financial interests want it to do.
Louisiana1976
Aug 2014
#1
Erect Bogeyman, wave flag, declare we need protection, give more money to the MIC.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Sep 2014
#5
No, there are real trouble spots that we are right to be concerned with.
TwilightGardener
Sep 2014
#8
What would they gain from that because giving us an excuse to kill a lot of them?
yurbud
Sep 2014
#11
If our government was worried about the threat from "ISIS," they would have told our allies in the
yurbud
Sep 2014
#12