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Thread #61367   Message #988954
Posted By: kendall
23-Jul-03 - 02:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: Moral Courage: Bush and Blair. Thanks!!!
Subject: RE: BS: Moral Courage: Bush and Blair. Thanks!!!
He's not my president. He's a liar and a phoney. He has no clue what to do about the economy which is in the toilet, so, like many other leaders before him he takes our attention away from that by bombing the shit out of a country that was not a threat to us. Colin Powell said before the war that there was no link between Saddam Hussein and Al Quida.


> the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into
a
> patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both
> emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of
war
> have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has
> closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the
citizenry.
> Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will
> offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know?
> For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."
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