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do you think the american people can handle the truth?

politicians and the media always like to pretend things are pretty. though the news like sensational news it is not the kind of truth that would cause panic. the other kind that would is never said. do you really think we could handle it? i do. i am old and i remember pearl harbor and ww2 we thought we were too big to be bothered, the 9/11 and again we were very complacent but both times in the face of real truth we answered not with panic but with show them attitudes. so why does obama keep calling worlf is this so we ignore the real truth.

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  • 10 years ago
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    i am totally with Jonathan down there. i know we can handle the truth, but it's hard. too many people just don't want to believe whats really going on. screw the illuminati!

  • Kini
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Your point is really unclear. The American media does not present the real truth about international events.

    I wonder how Americans would react if they were blitzed like London was during the war. They have been acting like the U.S. was attacked by a foreign military. These were singular acts of sabotage by al Quaeda involving a handful of people who sacrificed themselves for their cause, albeit killing a few thousand people in the process. They targeted the symbols of American imperialism, Wall Street and the Pentagon.

    During WW2, we created a monstrous war machine to threaten the Soviets that has gotten out of control and no one wants to put the genie back in the bottle.

  • 10 years ago

    It's obvious that you can't recognize it, let alone handle it. Every day the news is full of death, destruction, the declining economy, etc. Politicians are full of hate for the other side, whichever side that is.

    We have already had our Pearl Harbor, on September 11, 2001. We overreacted and acted as if there was a country we could conquer to stop this kind of thing, when the truth is that the enemy is everywhere. No military action can stop terrorism, unless you want us to invade the entire world. And the invasions we have committed have made terrorism even more powerful because of all the ordinary citizens we have killed in the name of democracy.

  • justa
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    You blame Obama? A man who has been in office less than three years?

    I'm not old enough to remember Pearl Harbor, but I do remember Vietnam, and there was nothing pretty about the pictures they ran in Look and Life back then. There has been a lot going on in the country between WW2 and 9/11.

    The real truth is not that Obama is crying wolf, indeed, he has no reason to, the wolf cried under Bush, when we were attacked and he went to war, not to just get our attacker, but to invade another country because of a tissue of lies created to have us believe we were endangered by Saddam.

    That's the real truth, not that Obama is in anyway to blame for our situation. He's an afterthought, not the main mover.

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  • 10 years ago

    Yes.

  • 10 years ago

    So how do you know the real truth?

  • 10 years ago

    the truth ill tell you the truth. two words: the illumaniti.

    and if you dont know research it.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    meh i hate stupid people >.>

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