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<blockquote data-quote="TechGrrl" data-source="post: 748430" data-attributes="member: 4932"><p>I think the idea of going back and looking at history is to do an after-action analysis of the outcome, and then try to avoid making the same mistakes, over and over and over and over again. History tells us that most people are patriots of their country, and, by and large, trust their government to tell them the truth. So, when their government tells them that there is intelligence showing a WMD threat, the people will support their government.</p><p></p><p>Of course, once it is shown that their government wildly overstated the threat to accomplish a particular political end that had nothing whatsoever to do with the actual situation, those people should pay a tad more attention to the adage, "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice (three times, a hundred times) shame on me."</p><p></p><p>So, really, examining the history of what our government has done in very similar situations should focus us on being more demanding of serious proof before allowing our government to go spending blood and trillions of dollars for the benefit of oil companies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TechGrrl, post: 748430, member: 4932"] I think the idea of going back and looking at history is to do an after-action analysis of the outcome, and then try to avoid making the same mistakes, over and over and over and over again. History tells us that most people are patriots of their country, and, by and large, trust their government to tell them the truth. So, when their government tells them that there is intelligence showing a WMD threat, the people will support their government. Of course, once it is shown that their government wildly overstated the threat to accomplish a particular political end that had nothing whatsoever to do with the actual situation, those people should pay a tad more attention to the adage, "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice (three times, a hundred times) shame on me." So, really, examining the history of what our government has done in very similar situations should focus us on being more demanding of serious proof before allowing our government to go spending blood and trillions of dollars for the benefit of oil companies. [/QUOTE]
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