Reply #9: "So tell me, why are we doing this?" you ask. Delusions of empire

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That's the tragic answer. The 'rulers' - any of our august rulers - act like they have some
special right to interfere with military force of varying proportions outside of our national
borders WHEN there is no imminent threat against us. The citizens are largely opposed to
this regardless of party until the great lie machines start up (and only convinced part of the time).
In Columbia - oh, lets see - yeah, it's the war on drugs (now that the Communists can't be claimed as
the enemy). It's something else in Iraq, something else again in Panama. The leaders use the
military as their own personal army to serve "national" (read corporate or government control)
interests.

They never stop to admit that the laws made in war trials by our own jurists state - no preemptive
invasions. That doesn't mean none by any nation other than the US, it means none. How many
times have we violated the great principal that we helped establish in Nuremberg.

Bring the troops home! Stop the lying.