FEOS wrote:
Spearhead wrote:
Not much of a conspiracy theorist myself. But can you really blame people for thinking that way? I sure don't. I'd rather be safe than sorry. Worrying about your civil liberties is never wrong.
There is a significant difference between worrying about your civil liberties and accusing the government and its employees/leadership of nefarious criminal activity during every major crisis.
Well... years down the road we tend to discover that we were right in accusing the government and its employees/leaders of nefarious criminal activity.
WWI started when we sent the Lusitania (a ship loaded with civilians and munitions) into water known to be infested with German subs.. it sunk killing 1,198 people and the public turned against Germany and entering the war was acceptable.
WWII started with Pearl Harbor, and we now know that the president at the time pissed off the Japanese (politically) and ignored a warning from the Australian government about a large Japanese fleet headed towards Hawaii. Of course after that plenty signed up to fight the good fight.
Vietnam started because of an admitted gimmick. Some claim the Gulf of Tonkin incident didn't even happen, I think that it did... but it was a provoked attack seeing as we were in enemy waters... and we were 'attacked' be a PT boat. The Vietnam war, similar it seems to Iraq, was not a war meant to be won, just sustained for as everyone knows war = money.
Aaaaand Iraq, started because of 9/11... if it was in fact terrorists, we did know it was coming but of course "communication between the agencies failed"... and it didn't help that not a single Air Force jet was scrambled though it's standard procedure when a plane goes way off course. They were involved in a training exercise on the same day and if memory serves I believe it was a similar exercise, resulting in confusion when they were told of an actual terrorist attack.
Going with the whole "war is meant to be sustained not won" deal -- not to long ago British soldiers were detained in a Basra prison after they were caught speeding through the streets with turbans on shooting and yelling. When the police wouldn't release them to the British, they came in with tanks and took them out. Some feel that the 'destabilization' of Iraq is due in part to planted terrorists, meant to not only stir up fear but pit the citizens of Iraq against each other. "Divided and Conquer" is the name of the game.
Of course the fact that we've entered many wars because of seemingly planned events could just simply be a coincidence, but if it's not I think that I have every reason to question the the "truths" the government tells me.