Believe it or not, Terry, an lot of educated people actually had heard of Guernica ( and Franco, and WWII and Picasso ) before they stumbled across the reference on a polemic website. <s>
"Reports filtering out" do not mean truth. They just as easily mean spin. If you know anything about modern warfare capabilities you surely know if the U.S. military had been targeting civilians in Iraq there would not be any more civilians in Iraq.
( This reminds me of the 60s when we stood in the street screaming the government was stifling dissent - rather forgetting that in societies where dissent was really stifled we would have disappeared very quickly. Bombastic and hyperbolic rhetoric becomes very pale when faced with the real deal. Words like 'genocide' as applied by the more strident these days run out of steam when faced with events in the Balkans or Rwanda where people actually knew the meaning of the word. )
>One reason the rest of the globe might see things opposite the way we see them is that have tasted war. They smelled it and saw the reduction of neighbors and towns to so many pounds of burger. Another thing that is different is that they don't have a corporate media (like we do in the USA - and yes, Tracy, we have a corporate media) whose fortunes are tied to multinationals that want to sell bombs or acquire the resources from others an minimal licensing (bribe the leadership) or none (invade the country - US taxpayer then will buy the bombs).
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>I am not trying to convince you of this truth. Time will do that. But you need to prepare yourself because we as americans will have a lot of work to do when the truth finally comes out.
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>Being American means assuring our government is not being privatized or outsourced. We are citizens of a republic before we are a marketplace of consumers. Don't forget that! It's our responsibility to question our government and to make sure they are acting ethically, in the interests of peace and the world we all owe our descendants. We are the government. Washington DC is where the clerks work that write up the contracts, receive our taxes and pay the bills. They work for us. They are not better than us.
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>You should read this short essay about the bombing of a village in Spain under Francos (WWII) rule. It's short. Read every word.
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http://www.aztlan.net/fallujah_guernica.htm
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
