David Morgan \(MAMS\)
5/21/2008 7:04:00 PM
<Zomby-Woof@cox.net> wrote in message...
> All those people dancing
> in the streets & tearing down statues of Saddam weren't doing so
> because they were pissed at us (yet).
Surely you are aware that the entire scenario of the toppling of the
Saddam statue was a U.S. staged PR ploy. (?)
> Not the Secret Police, but the average everyday Iraqi. Each male head
> of household was allowed to retain one fully Automatic AK-47 as to not
> affect their self-image.
Too bad the same thing can't be said for the USA. Given that point,
this little piece of information is quite new to me and I consider it more
than just unacceptable.... but not as unacceptable as the USA's invasion
and occupation itself.
"The moment war is declared... the mass of the people, through
some spiritual alchemy, become convinced that they have willed
and executed the deed themselves. They then, with the exception
of a few malcontents, proceed to allow themselves to be regimented,
coerced, deranged in all the environments of their lives, and turned
into a solid manufactory of destruction toward whatever other people
may have, in the appointed scheme of things, come within the range
of the Government's disapprobation...
-- Randolph Bourne, "The State", 1918