PEACE or WAR

[heretic888]

That's one example of our great goverment and it's "foreign polcies" they have their own pacific agenda. We are merely pawns my friend. Now I know you going to come back with some "Those aren't facts" or some sarcastic remark like how I don't work for the US Goverment or how these facts aren't valid and so on and so on. You can keep making excuses to yourself, I've lost interest. Thanks bye.

Actually, that wasn't a 'fact' at all. That was one man's very biased account of discussions he had had with 'nameless individuals'. He brings up numbers, but doesn't support them with primary sources.

Why is this important, you say?? Well, anyone can make up statistics or numbers on the spot. Example: 90% of all Americans are Communists. I just made that up. No primary resource. No support. But if I have political influence, and write a book, then someone out there is gonna actually believe that erroneous statistic. No, what happened with the individual quoted here obviously isn't as ridiculous as the fake statistic I made up, but the fact that he fails to cite a single primary resource piques the observer's curiosity, no??

To tell you the truth, that whole passage struck me as little more than extreme liberal rhetoric with no empirical support whatsoever. I remain unimpressed.