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Old March 4th, 2006 #20
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Originally Posted by Whitefist
We have precedent for this, Gulf of Tonkin-Pentagon Papers, a very suspicious vulnerability at Pearl Harbor and the very fortunate abscence of the aircraft carriers, the sinking of the Maine under very suspicious circumstances opening up the Spanish American War and the beginnings of American global empire in Asia.

It seems there's always a heinous provocation for US military action, or response. We're not the aggressors, just retaliating justifiably, which is obviously concocted for mass consumption. But isn't it curious how these incidents always seem to occur before a major US military operation, especially one not necessarily popular, or that might prove costly?
It goes back even further, to Fort Sumter. Abraham Lincoln would never have been able to raise enough men to force the South back into the union, until he could pass it off as an attack on the United States (which it really wasn't). Hence reinforcements sent to a fort that he had agreed to vacate, SC no longer being in the union.

Americans always fall for these devices. Too few of them can think or place much value on their lives.
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