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earth mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-14-05 11:49 AM
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4. Here's an excellent explaination as to why...
Edited on Thu Jul-14-05 11:53 AM by TheGoldenRule
I posted a thread about it, but got no replies and it sunk like a stone. Read the entire article at the link at the bottom-it's very enlightening.

The London Bombings and The Class War

"The terror attacks on the people of London, the 9/11 attacks on Americans, and the Iraq war itself are not matters principally of foreign but of domestic policy–a fact which has been neglected by most anti-war commentators, who tend to view these things only in terms of American (or British) imperialism. While the main victims of the war on Iraq are the Iraqi people, the main purpose driving the war and its attendant terror is the class war by the American elite against American working people. The war in Iraq is being waged as a means of controlling ordinary Americans (and British), providing the opportunity for transforming American society into a military and police state through such measures as the Patriot Act, airport searches, the suspension of habeas corpus at Guantanamo and in the case of Jose Padilla and more than 1,000 persons detained in the US after 9/11 without charges or due process, and for the unprecedented attack on pensions and retirement and other aspects of working people's livelihoods. The ruling class could never get away with these things in the absence of a war, which had to be created under false pretenses for the purpose."

http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/War/London.htm

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