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Great post. The thing that gets to me is how the American public is just so immune to their government exploiting 9/11. What the government did and does is downright unjustifiable crime on ALL sides. This is Bush and Osama's administrations.Originally Posted by nestasprotege
I see one problem with this that permeates deep into political affiliations as well.
In my opinion, people are GENERALLY liberal but SPECIFICALLY conservative. That is, when asking a person if everyone in America should have access to affordable health care, the answers are usually unanimously yes. When asking that same person if they are willing to allocate a portion of their earnings to ensure that everyone has this health care, you lose about half of those previous yes votes. Take it a step further and pile on other liberal policies, and the increase in revenues needed to cover those policies, you lose even more people.
I see the same thing happening in this case. Say the government wasn't solely responsible for 9/11 but they took advantage (i know it's a sinister way of putting it) of the situation by going to war and trying to extract oil and whatever else. Most people would be ghastly opposed to that truth and appalled that such a thing could happen. Now take it a step further and propose to these people that within the next 10 years, gas prices would be roughly $10 per gallon if we didn't "take advantage" of the situation. Even further, explain that we will have to start drilling in our oceans to fulfill our dependence on oil. Now add the element of increased exposure to an ever increasing terrorist base, with no recourse except for a declaration of full out war. The list can go on and on and on and on.
I'm not suggesting that people will automatically neglect the deaths of our military as a result of the route we took with the middle east. But, when put into context, it isn't as cut and dry as it seems. I would guess that there are a significant amount of people who believe that deaths in a volunteer army are simply a byproduct of keeping our way of life consistent and preserving our safety.
I was arguing this beforehand in the thread. Yes, they wanted to take out Saddam through a war. But, to think they were going to be able to without the public and electorate on their side, would not have been as easy. I believe there would have been an outcry. That is why they milked 9/11 and they exploited it to the fullest extent. That is why they lied.
They could have sent troops to Iraq without having to lie and link it to 9/11, but they know they would not get away with it so easy.
So what to do? Milk off 9/11 and Osama...Look the boogeyman is out to get us, let us take away your civil liberties, let us tighten privacy laws so we can watch you like hawks and take away your social rights and your freedom of mobility all for National Security, let us send your children and kill them off for that oil money,etc. Without 9/11 and the bogus War on Terror, they would not have been able to get away with all this so easily.
Downright disgusting to me. That is why when I know there is an intent behind it all. But hey guys we're a DEMOCRACY, the government would never murder their own civilians.