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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-22-04 11:46 AM
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What's the difference between Vietnam and Iraq?
Bush had a plan for getting out of Vietnam.
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-22-04 11:52 AM
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1. During the Vietnam era... or error, whichever you prefer... the Empire
Edited on Fri Oct-22-04 11:54 AM by Medialize
did not have all the chess men in the sack that it needed in order to press forward with its agenda for a one world government ruled by corporations.

Things are different now... if you don't understand this... set your compass to www.copvcia.com and see where this neocon agenda WILL take us.

Our forefathers are probably chewing nails right now... and I am sure that reading Crossing the Rubicon will convince anyone that they would if they could.... chew nails that is. This clip below is in reference to another equally revealing book.... Crossing the Rubicon can be found at Amazon by now I am sure. Funny thing is with all this information available... the general public remains uninformed at best, and totally misled at the worst.

http://www.michaelparenti.org/Imperialism101.html
Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations. Yet, it is seldom accorded any serious attention by our academics, media commentators, and political leaders. When not ignored outright, the subject of imperialism has been sanitized, so that empires become "commonwealths," and colonies become "territories" or "dominions" (or, as in the case of Puerto Rico, "commonwealths" too). Imperialist military interventions become matters of "national defense," "national security," and maintaining "stability" in one or another region. In this book I want to look at imperialism for what it really is.
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mourningdove92 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-22-04 11:55 AM
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2. great one Burtworm. Just textmessaged this to my r/w brother in
Colorado Springs.
I wait with bated breath for his blistering reply.

Good thing we absolutely adore each other, or this election could be painful for our relationship.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-22-04 11:57 AM
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3. I can only imagine!
My family is 100% pro-Kerry. My wife's family is 100% pro-Kerry. Only our distant relatives are wingers, and we just don't talk to them.
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scoopmeister Donating Member (147 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-22-04 12:00 PM
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4. There's no difference -- read this
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