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Tierra_y_Libertad

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7. America indulges in a lot of false advertising and self deception.

Reply to WilliamPitt (Original post)

Sun Dec 7, 2014, 05:19 PM

Dec 2014

"A nation of peace"
"Equal opportunity"
"We don't torture"
"All men are equal under the law"
"We promote democracy"
"Freedom of speech"
"Freedom of the press"
"Freedom to peaceably assemble"
"The right to privacy"

And, many, many, more instances of the same.

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Seventy-three years of war. [View all] WilliamPitt Dec 2014 OP

sad fact. marym625 Dec 2014 #1

I could make a case for the beginnings of the war at Sarajevo in 1914. Jackpine Radical Dec 2014 #2

Longer than that, even, counting our occupations and interventions in Latin America Scootaloo Dec 2014 #4

Yep, I'll be 75 in July of next year and war has always been....n/t monmouth4 Dec 2014 #3

Ike warned us, and he was there at the beginning... Cooley Hurd Dec 2014 #5

And for most of the 165 years before then. Spider Jerusalem Dec 2014 #6

America indulges in a lot of false advertising and self deception. Tierra_y_Libertad Dec 2014 #7

7+ decades that should live in INFAMY Martin Eden Dec 2014 #8

there is an old song olddots Dec 2014 #9

its the way of Howler Dec 2014 #10

OK I'll bite. Nye Bevan Dec 2014 #11