28 September 2006
:: future :: :: Poll: Iraqis back attacks on U.S. troops :: September :: 2006
About six in 10 Iraqis say they approve of attacks on U.S.-led forces, and slightly more than that want their government to ask U.S. troops to leave within a year, according to a poll in that country. The poll, done for University of Maryland’s Program on International Policy Attitudes, found:
10 September 2006
The failing “War on Terror”
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
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