In These Times

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• • 14 Jan 08
  • 12:53 pm

  You guys are scooping up and chowing down the bullshit propaganda like Bangladeshi starvlings at a banquet. Human beings are human beings, with the SAME essential motives, fears, hopes and vices. It's so useful to the war machine (which now gobbles up over HALF the GDP on defense - shit that has no other practical use than to blow up other shit and spread misery and death) that you so easily swallow the propaganda that these guys are "animals", "subhuman", etc. This type of crap is straight out of CIA psyops manuals - if you make people believe the enemy is …

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• • 14 Jan 08
  • 1:31 pm

  And really, are their "crazies" any worse than our "crazies", who, for example, butcher and roast six-year-old babies and their parents in front of preteens before raping and murdering them? http://aliberaldose.blogspot.com/2006/07/we-have-unleashed-hell-in-iraq.html or commit genocide: http://aliberaldose.blogspot.com/2006/10/over-half-million-deaths-after-fact.html for a few (well, maybe a few football fields full of) blood-encrusted dollars? http://aliberaldose.blogspot.com/2005/10/what-200-billion-dollars-4-billion.html or firebomb babies, mow down unarmed citizens with apache helicopters, and blow up ambulances transporting the wounded? http://aliberaldose.blogspot.com/2006/07/new-final-solution.html

  Posted to RoboCop in Iraq

• • 14 Jan 08
  • 1:33 pm

  And no, I'm not Middle Eastern or Muslim. Can't stand crazy, uneducated, fundamentalist bastards of any stripe.

  Posted to RoboCop in Iraq

• • 20 Jan 08
  • 6:47 pm

  whattheheck: Did you actually READ the articles I linked to? If you had, you probably wouldn't be asking your questions. But, okay, I'll play. Why do I believe the things I write on my blog? Well, I studied journalism in university, and learned how to dig for the truth. I look for consistency. If there's a consistent pattern, plausibility, and the sources of the information are truthful, long-standing journalists, the data comes from several equally credible sources who say the same thing, and none of them have any vested interest in lying, I believe them. Conversely, I regard nearly everything the …

  Posted to RoboCop in Iraq

• • 22 Jan 08
  • 2:44 pm

  No, my friend, I'm believing because the ones you are referring to were convicted in a court of law after having admitted doing it. But feel free to call me gullible, if you insist that's not sufficient proof for you.

  Posted to RoboCop in Iraq