Thom Hartmann: Is America This Gullible About War?

[marmar]

[merrily]

1. Rec for importance of topic, but that is the wrong damned question.

Why is Washington and the msm again selling Americans on war?

[OnyxCollie]

2. Thom Hartmann: Is [are] America[ns] This Gullible About War?

Yes.

As James Madison had written in a letter to Thomas Jefferson on May 13, 1798:

The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse, of all
the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be concealed or disclosed, or
disclosed in such parts & at such times as will best suit particular views; and because the
body of the people are less capable of judging & are more under the influence of
prejudices, on that branch of their affairs, than of any other. Perhaps it is a universal truth
the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended,
from abroad (Madison, 1798).

[hifiguy]

3. Yes.

Masses are often gullible, but the American populace has been trained to buy absolutely anything for 35 years and about 50% of them would line up to buy perpetual motion machines if given the opportunity to do so. This is a deeply stupid and gullible populace and they are what they are be design and concerted action by TPTB a implemented by the media, primarily television.

[KurtNYC]

4. No one is asking Americans for permission to go back to Iraq so what difference does it make if we

are "gullible"?

Wrong frame.

[malaise]

5. Yes

[ZombieHorde]

6. I don't know.

Some people seem to like war, so they're getting what like.

[Snarkoleptic]

7. kickski