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Harry Browne on war

Excellent piece from Harry Browne, former Libertarian candidate for President.

Why I Am Obsessed by War

Harry Browne

George Bush was reinaugurated in Washington last week. Fittingly, the inauguration parade route was lined the entire way with armed guards – so many armed guards that they had to stand shoulder-to-shoulder. As with the rest of America, Washington, D.C. was in a state of siege.

The militant air of the entire affair was very much like a parade in the old Soviet Union or even in Nazi Germany.

And in his speech, George Bush proclaimed his desire for world domination – to have the power and the right to decide who is good and who is bad, who shall live and who shall die, what form of government will exist in each nation.

He made it clear that if he has a use for your government, you will keep it – no matter how oppressive.

But if your government doesn’t suit him, if it declares its independence from the United States, we will “liberate” your country and impose what we call “democracy” on it – no matter how advanced your civilization, no matter how much or how little your people may approve of your current form of government.

Of course, by “we” he meant George Bush. </i>


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