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Originally posted by Colin@Aug 31 2004, 05:21 AM
So you think the millions of people who died as a result of Hitler and say, "the Spanish" were the results of bogeymen?
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and how exactly was hitler a threat to the US? not "US interests", but real american citizens? *
in fact, how were any of the examples i gave a threat to americans? and mind you, i left out totally lame made-up examples like fidel castro and nicaragua and who knows what else?
and now we have a never-ending war on terror that the president himself says is unlikely to be won, but that doesn't stop him from extorting hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars a year to go out and wage it.
keeping the citizenry scared is just a tool for cash extraction and power enhancement.
* and sure, hitler was a bad guy and a lot of people died, but that didn't seem to be a problem when stalin was murdering millions, or mao, or pol pot, or north korea, or any of those other places that innocents died. didn't see the US busting ass to save them.
so the US has a selective process about what threats are threats, and what threats aren't. the US did, however, think that they were threats enough to extract more billions from the citizenry to donate to the military industrial complex.