So we are going to go to war now over stories of dead children gassed by the Syrians. If you study history you may recall stories of Belgium children brutally murdered and women raped by the German army prior to our involvement in World War I. You might also have heard of the USS Maine sunk in Havana harbor by the Spanish in 1898 that sparked our war with Spain. Both of those stories turned out to be propaganda and not based on truth. Many of my generation clearly remember the North Vietnam patrol boats that attacked two US navy destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964. That story was also a lie. And we went to war based on it and 58,000 Americans died as a result. Not that many years ago Colin Powell told the United Nations that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction-chemical and biological-and was prepared to unleash them on the Middle East and Israel. We went to war on that lie to. When will be learn. Governments ready to take us to war never tell us the truth. Its the "first casualty" of any war.
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