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Veterans

JoeBlowToo

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1. Just by the response to this thread you can see how effective the "support our troops" crap has been

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Wed Apr 10, 2013, 11:14 AM

Apr 2013

Silence....the effectiveness of the propaganda is astounding. Just show a few clips of men and women coming how from deployments longer than WWII and have some fighter planes streak across the sky at Super Bowl and you have a populace that is reluctant to question why we have a bloated, supersized military industrial complex that needs constant war to consume their products and keep the economy afloat.

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The Elephant in the Room: Militarism [View all] unhappycamper Apr 2013 OP

Just by the response to this thread you can see how effective the "support our troops" crap has been JoeBlowToo Apr 2013 #1

k/r marmar Apr 2013 #2