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Hi flap.... While I'm not quite as cynical as you, I've got to agree that all of this flag-waving, the US is #1 business is bs. To me, it's kind of like evengelical religion ... I'm not anti-US or anti-religion but the whole idea of "we're right and you're wrong" tends to turn me against both.
As for the truth about casaulties... when I was a teen I attened a holiday lunch where the program speakers were reporters who were home from Vietnam for Christmas. This was in '66 when popular sentiment supported our efforts in Vietnam. The reporters talked about how the government was manipulating the casualty count for PR purposes. I was a typical apathetic teen and that was my introduction to the notion that the government deliberately lied to cover their collective asses. |
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