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kpete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 09:37 AM Original message |
"Declassified Study" - How the Soviet Menace Was Hyped-"Constant Exaggeration" (Sound Familiar?) |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 09:42 AM Response to Original message |
1. It's the same crowd wanting these results |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 09:47 AM Response to Original message |
2. Hey, it was worth building thousands upon thousands of extinction ensuring weaponry |
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TxRider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
3. This is very old news |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 11:12 AM Response to Reply #3 |
13. So why do we still have two wars going on nobody wants? |
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TxRider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 07:22 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Of course it is making money |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 07:44 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Scoop Jackson |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 07:40 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Wow, amazing article |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
4. As a child of the 1950s I am really really pissed off |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 10:02 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Ditto for the 80s. |
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TxRider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 07:48 PM Response to Reply #4 |
18. I remember that |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 04:59 AM Response to Reply #4 |
23. it seems so surrealistic now, doesn't it? |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
5. "Fear Works" - Jim McDermott, "Fahrenheit 9/11" |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
6. The politicians' and Pentagon's best allies are scary bogeymen. K&R |
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RufusTFirefly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 09:56 AM Response to Original message |
7. The "menace" is always exaggerated |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
9. Team B -- Pentagon Warlord Robert Gates headed the operation for Poppy Bush |
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FormerDittoHead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
10. But we must NEVER cut military spending! It's the one part of the economy that ALWAYS grows! |
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LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 10:15 AM Response to Original message |
11. Geez, that's been the US MO for decades. |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 08:35 AM Response to Reply #11 |
25. +1 |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 10:15 AM Response to Original message |
12. We knew back in the sixties that the USSR was going to implode. |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
16. Like how the drug war was hyped? Missing children hyped? internet preditors hyped? Terrorists hyped? |
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MisterP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
19. ah, the Red Menace: they were aggressive, lied, invented atrocity reports, |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
20. Meh at least we won in the end. Soviets were scum. |
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espiral (143 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 02:51 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Laugh away, pal. |
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Oak2004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 02:43 AM Response to Original message |
21. No kidding |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 08:00 AM Response to Original message |
24. While that is true, it should not be forgotten ... |
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