"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Why Is This Man Smiling?
Submitted by Jeremy H. on Wed, 2007-09-05 15:00
"In the effort to retaliate against terrorists who hijacked planes six years ago with an arsenal of $3 knives, this year's overall defense budget has been pushed to $657 billion. We are now spending $3 billion a week in Iraq alone, occupying a country that had nothing to do with the tragedy that sparked this orgy of militarism....Numbers are boring, and the media act as if there is no difference between a million and a billion dollars thrown at the military?let alone the trillion-dollar projected cost of the Iraq war."
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