By William Schroder
http://www.jihadunspun.com/intheatre_internal.php?article=101704&list=/home.php&Are you someone who thinks the war in Iraq was waged to destroy Saddam’s WMDs? Do you believe it America’s moral duty to free the peoples of the world from tyranny? Do subscribe to the notion that Iraq was an “imminent threat” to our “American way of life?” If you embrace any of these common ideologies, you are not to be blamed, faulted or criticized. Deep inside, you’re scared, and you believe your government’s clarion call to arms was necessary to keep you safe.
Hang on, there’s a cure for that churning in the pit in your stomach. It is almost certainly psychosomatic. You need to consider the possibility that maybe - just maybe - the Iraqi threat to America was exaggerated. While to you it seems real, perhaps your discomfort stems from an intense, government-sponsored propaganda scare campaign filled with half-truths, misdirection and deceit. After all, your government has done this before. Relax, breathe deeply and concentrate while I take you on a brief, illusion-free exploration of American imperialism.
Like the great imperialists of bygone days, America’s rulers share a long history of creating fear – one “evildoer” or another always threatens the destruction of “the American way of life.” Then, while the frightened population huddles gratefully under the umbrella of power, the government pursues an agenda calculated to transfer vast sums of public wealth into the hands of the corporate and political elite.
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