Corp. Media Lies and Gullible People Die

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An interview with the mother and widow of a former contractor in Iraq

<snip> Yes, he was intensely patriotic. I kept trying to explain it to myself. His dad and I had been liberals. My parents were not. My dad was really a Taft republican. He believed in pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. He had a powerful work ethic. It seems to me that Tim, I don’t know if was in his DNA or he picked it up somehow, but it was part of his rebellion from his liberal father and me. <snip>

What he experienced had a shattering effect on him. There was absolutely no hint of the depression to come. But the anger was palpable. It was shattering to him, to come to feel that the war was wrong. <snip>

We discussed the invasion very often. I was completely against that war. I thought it was based on a lie. I remember in Ethiopia we discussed it, together with other friends. And when we were saying that it was all lies, that they wanted the oil, he said, "The Pentagon doesn’t lie; they wouldn’t send our soldiers in there if it’s not true." He was totally convinced that they would find the weapons of mass destruction. <snip>

He said to a friend of mine that he was disillusioned with the war and that he was ashamed of being an American. And that was about two weeks before he put a bullet in his brain. <snip>

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2. I grieve with you in your loss and am sorry I cannot repair it.

And I regret that this has been your experience of Christianity. I have always considered Christianity as a sort of "simplified Judaism for gentiles" and thought that the basic point was carrying the message of the prophets to the whole world. But the Evil One tries always to turn everything, including religion itself, into idolatry and a tool for blinding people with lies.