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lies

(315 posts)
1. It's not just Trump
Wed Apr 12, 2017, 03:09 PM
Apr 2017

Last edited Wed Apr 12, 2017, 03:55 PM - Edit history (1)

America has a LONG history of killing unarmed women and children. In Iraq alone the US is said to have killed hundreds of thousands of them.

And right now in Yemen we're EXTREMELY complicit in the starvation of millions of women and children.

And this isn't new behavior.

The CIA paid a guy in afghanistan KNOWN FOR throwing acid in women and young girl's faces.

We illegally bombed Cambodia and killed how many civilians.

We illegally and secretly sterilized many many thousands of poor and minority American women for years!

We prop and have propped up dictators that murder children - no big deal.

Sure, we even shot down an aircraft full of women and children, then lied about it to the world.

Of course most Americans don't know about this stuff - and there's an infinite list of garbage we've done.

Part of that is that we're all fed endless propaganda about 'American exceptionalism'. We're exceptionally good at mass murder, but I don't think that's what they mean.

The point: Americans don't care. Trump doesn't care. Obama didn't care. W didn't care. Bill didn't care. They reflect the country's attitude. It would be ODD if Trump DID. Especially as he's complicit in mass starvation and murder in Yemen.

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