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Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald
Uh huh. I'm not one of them. What's your point.
Yes, they did. They needed an even so catestrophic that it would completely shutdown the public's ability to reason. The outrage that would be required to execute the sweeping plans on the table would require the nation to swallow anything that was said and fall in lockstep behind "the President".
You know what's pathetic, Dis? The failure of the Average American to acknowledge that we are coming up on twice that number of American dead in Iraq and Afganistan, and then the 100 times that of dead in those countries from the "wars" that followed.
The PNAC stated exactly what they would need to institute their vision of a new American empire, and that was delivered for them less than a year after assuming power. What a stunning coincidence!
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Apparently 9/11 did that for 70 million Americans if your numbers are correct.
I just shake my head because I know you're an intelligent guy. I've met you in person.
You have written before about the over the top patriotism and bravado of Americans. Do you REALLY think they needed that kind of event to be convinced that Saddam Hussein was a really bad guy and needed to be taken out (the premise of the war). I don't.
It's such a huge stretch. The # of people involved that would have to be quiet is astonishing. Impossible.