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Nictoe
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 Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:06 pm Post subject: The Fear Factor |
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| "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear-kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor-with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it." |
--General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), Supreme Allied Commander, 1957
The Fear Factor
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theLIBERTARIAN
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| Comming from MacArthur?? Wow. |
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bestsynd
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The United States has been criticized for the invasion of Iraq by most leaders in the Middle East, but now even UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says the war has become a “real disaster”. The Bush Administration rebuffed the remarks indicating the Secretary General was wrong.
Annan returned late last week from a two week tour of the region. The Secretary said that "Most of the leaders I spoke to felt the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath has been a real disaster for them. They believe it has destabilized the region. It cannot stay and it cannot leave."
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