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Octafish

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1. Important news that doesn't make it to the television.

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Sun Dec 6, 2015, 12:52 PM

Dec 2015

"Khost Protection Force" has a ring to it, like "Counter-terrorism Pursuit Team."

Reason we need to make enemies: We need to have an excuse, uh, rationale for the military spending.

Otherwise, people might hear about Gen. Smedley Butler and his "War is a Racket" and we wouldn't want that, would we?

Who knows where that might lead? Wouldn't want the American people to learn his role in stopping the coup against FDR, would we?

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Important news that doesn't make it to the television. Octafish Dec 2015 #1

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