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Tue Dec 16, 2014, 01:42 AM Dec 2014

The War For America's Soul... and Treasure! | Philip A. Farruggio



Philip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust

Dec. 12, 2014

Investigative author James Risen has written a new book, Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War, that gets to the heart of our current American Empire.

The facts his expose introduces can literally make one vomit! In between waving red, white and blue pieces of cloth from their windows and garage fronts, maybe my neighbors should read about the waste of lives and treasure by our government.

Gore Vidal's slogan of Perpetual War should have an addendum of perpetual destruction, and perpetual corruption and greed! Risen documents the more than $1 trillion "excursions" into Afghanistan and Iraq have cost you and me, John Q. Taxpayer. Yet, most of our numb and dumbed down American public is too focused on "illegal aliens" invading our borders to get free handouts and medical care... oh yes, and great jobs. You know, every American wants to wash dishes, mow grass in oppressive heat, clean hotel rooms and scrub floors. Who cares that defense contractors, especially big donors to campaigns, raked in hundreds of billions of dollars, and continue to do so, as we occupy Afghanistan and Iraq... illegally and immorally, by the way?

So, did you ever ask yourself why ISIS or ISIL, or whatever the hell they call that group of fanatics, has been able to recruit so many from that region? As with the extremist Zionists in Israel, or the "end days right wing Christians" here at home, the so-called "jihadist Muslims" represent but a small percentage of their worldwide religious members. The overwhelming majority of worshippers from all three of the above religions do not agree with the fanaticism of those sects... period!

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