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Why Americans Love War--The Pentagon's Propaganda Machine

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Liberals are essentially requesting special housing privileges for homeless veterans when they should be demanding an end to the wars which created both. When all of a nation's resources are paying for war, the very conditions which create homelessness can never be addressed.

The Pentagon vows there will never be another Vietnam

How did we get to this war-sick, insane state of affairs?

The sixties posed a real problem for the profiteers of war. The military industrial complex, the wealthy powers that be and the profits of the manufacturers of war-Lockheed Martin or Boeing. For the first time there was a rebellious young generation intrinsically and vocally opposed to Imperialist war.

There was also an extremely unpopular draft mandating participation in a war that very few would ever willingly volunteer to fight themselves. On top of it, they had to contend with an independent media that was a loose cannon freely patrolling the battlefields, reporting on the many atrocities committed by American troops which was turning mom and pop America against the war.

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