Reply #188: Really excellent post. This definitely should be a separate thread so I

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hope you start a thread with this article. I haven't read anything that so succinctly describes the takeover of govt by corporate interests.

It was also effing eye-opening to read that Amb Murray was shocked about the sort of torture being inflicted and the real reason for the war because I would have assumed that someone in his position would have been aware of the truth from the getgo.

One of the other insights among many is his observation about an increasingly impotent presidency leading to to string of one termers.


Thanks for posting.