Thread: CNN Reporter tells the Truth...

Originally Posted by wow

You make a very good argument to change the leadership in Congress.
Get rid of Reid and Pelosi, then the terrorists know they have lost their support within the US Govt. and the Iraqi people will have less trouble being a nation free of EU & UN tyranny.
This also means the Iraqi people can repay their war debt much sooner.

Of course. The hell with the will of the people. 2006 must have just killed people like you...finding out that the MAJORITY of Americans have had enough of the Republican crooks.

Originally Posted by IcyPeaceMaker

<snip>Fort Benning ... graduates ran Pinochet’s secret police and three principal concentration camps. In 1996, the US government was forced to release copies of the school’s training manuals. For aspiring terrorists, these recommended blackmail, torture, execution and the arrest of witnesses’ relatives.”

Conclusion:
I have come to understand this form of government we endure is a “plutocracy” (government by the wealthy) who lie, cheat, assassinate, instigate acts of terrorism and then blame scapegoat_nations and support/fund terrorist regimes and dictatorships as long as their dictators dance to their corporate tune. <snip>

Good post. Sounds similar to what I'm reading right now in "Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein.

Not ready to make a judgement on it yet as I just got started, but much of it rings true. Mind you, I am also reading Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" at the same time, and working my way through a little cognitive dissonance. I believe in much of Hayek's, Von Mises' and Milton Friedman's works, but am also aware of how their ideals can be, and are, corrupted.

What to do? What to do?

Originally Posted by pipes

Directly?...No.

But just because I don't respond to every bit of silliness , or every lie , or every wrongheaded position I see posted on AWE , doesn't mean I don't recognize them just the same.

I appreciate your effort, but I find it best not to mud-wrestle with pigs.

Honestly, if you ignore them long enough, they go find another stye.