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In defense of a phrase: "conspiracy theory"

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  • Iraq's attack on Kuwait in 1990 that lead up to the First Gulf War was approved in advance by American Ambassador April Glaspie on July 25, 1990.

  • Iraq's alleged possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) was a complete fabrication. There was never a reason to engage in the Second Gulf War.

  • The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was provoked by the United States, and it was known when the attack was underway. Old battleships were sent from San Diego to port in Hawaii, while all the aircraft carriers put out to the safety of the high sea. Newly developed radar provided an actual warning that the Japanese planes were on their way. http://tinyurl.com/ctdtkae. Roosevelt and his cronies needed this to get America into WWII when nobody wanted to do that following the massive cost and troop deaths during WWI. http://tinyurl.com/a8f2gjn

  • Indeed, it is easy to prove the existence of widely recognized conspiracies carried out by the American government and the corporate media. There are abundant examples showing how America's supposed love affair with democracy is really a sham. We have overthrown democracies all over the world and installed dictators who were compliant with our financial interests. These are a few of the most notorious examples.

    • The 2002 overthrow of the Chavez presidency in Venezuela was directly coordinated by the Bush Administration. http://tinyurl.com/337jo3

    • In 1953 the USA overthrew the democratically elected president of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddeq, and put the brutal Shah Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi into power, where he remained until 1979. http://tinyurl.com/augerb

    • The US role in the overthrow of the democratically elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende, is a glaring example of our disdain for democracy. In the first 911 conspiracy, America backed a coup by General Augusto Pinochet on September 11, 1973. Due to the repressive character of General Pinochet's rule, the coup became the most notorious military takeover in the annals of Latin American history. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/nsaebb8i.htm

    • Other countries around the world where America deposed elected heads of state and inserted dictators include Angola, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Congo, Dominican Republic, East Timor, El Salvador, Greece, Grenada, Haiti, Indonesia, Laos, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Zaire. This doesn't even include the many assassination plots America was and is complicit in. http://tinyurl.com/jt475

     

    Up is down, black is white, and doublespeak prevails in the world of conspiracies

    The above-mentioned, well-documented acts of evil carried out around the world in our name by the United States government and its corporate bosses are matched by their secret plots and plans within our country.

    For starters, how about the above-ground nuclear tests carried out within the continental boundaries of the lower 48 states, which spewed a witches' brew of radioactive elements far and wide downwind of these activities. It is impossible to tell how many thousands of cancer deaths accrued from these activities, but studies done on the baby teeth of children raised during this era can be extrapolated to show that millions of Americans were exposed to deadly fallout, and a significant percentage of them developed cancer. http://tinyurl.com/49kv3qf. Conservative estimates put the number of deaths from these cancers at over 15,000 Americans. http://tinyurl.com/cv28epj. Similar information is available from Utah http://tinyurl.com/33xaj6 and Nevada http://tinyurl.com/cnecadr.

    Between 1930 and 1960, manufacturers did all they could to prevent the link between asbestos and respiratory diseases, including cancer, from becoming known, so they could avoid prosecution. American workers had in fact sued the Johns Manville company as far back as 1932, but it was not until 1962 that epidemiologists finally established beyond any doubt what company bosses had known for a long time: asbestos causes cancer. http://tinyurl.com/cvku3wf

    Aluminum is a common element that is a known cause of Alzheimer's disease. http://tinyurl.com/cyazc46. Commonly found in antiperspirant deodorants, aluminum chlorohydrate is linked to breast cancer. http://tinyurl.com/dxonwzh.

    America's use of so-called "depleted uranium" munitions is actually a crime. We are guilty of what we accuse others of, the use of weapons of mass destruction. We have used nuclear warfare in both Afghanistan and Iraq. The epicenter of this is Falujah, where we have monstrously caused thousands of birth defects and cancers. http://gulfwarvets.com/du.htm

    Here is one I can speak to first hand. In 1971 I was nearly killed in a head-on collision. My injuries, although life threatening, were not complicated for any hospital emergency room to handle. In spite of this, the hospital itself caused complications that nearly killed me. A hospital-induced infection ravaged my body, and it took two months of hospitalization to rectify. This is called an iatrogenic illness.

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