[Peace-discuss] War-is-the-Health-of-the-State quiz

[C. G. Estabrook]

Of course you're correct.  I mention it because we actually had someone at last 
week's AWARE meeting defending the view that Barry the Freedom Fighter of course 
Wants to Do the Right Thing, but the Republicans are Preventing Him...

A shocking number of Americans of the political class (roughly, the 20% of the 
population who graduated from a Good College)  believe that.

We can only hope that Jefferson was right when he spoke up for the other 80% and 
for those "who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, 
cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most 
wise depositary of the public interests."

That's the only way the policies of this government - and its propaganda 
apparatus in the ideological institutions of media & education - can be reversed.


On 11/29/10 6:44 PM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> why that's our one true friend, Barry the freedom fighter.
>
> come collect your beer.
>
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> On 11/30/2010 8:35 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>> National Public Radio is presenting Jeffrey Goldberg as a commentator, and 
>> the message is that the Wikileaks documents support a US/Israel attack on Iran.
>>
>> Meanwhile, what the American public should really be concerned about, says 
>> NPR morning and night this week, is reducing the federal deficit. Luckily, 
>> there are plans emerging from the President's Deficit Commission to do 
>> exactly that, and of course it's necessary that they be implemented.
>>
>> With these poisonous lies representing the limits of allowable debate for the 
>> US political class, identify the US politician responsible for the following 
>> settled position:
>>
>> "The United States should not rule out military strikes to destroy nuclear 
>> production sites in Iran.
>> Having a radical Muslim theocracy in possession of nuclear weapons is worse 
>> than the US launching some missile strikes into Iran."
>>
>> The winner of the quiz gets to buy me a beer. --CGE
>>
>>
>>
>>
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