John-John, RIP

[Enrique Diaz-Alvarez]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> kelley wrote:
> 
> >btw, why is it that polls are frequently attacked on this list for being
> >the tripe that they are, but when it comes to a poll that mirrors a view of
> >the world that's acceptable then a-okay and hurray to polls.
> 
> So the American masses don't really revere the church, the army, and
> cops after all?

They don't exactly revere them, they just like then more than bankers or
Congress.

 Were they really disturbed that their military bombed
> the fuck out of some poor slobs in the Balkans, and just kept that
> concern under wraps?

If I remember correctly, by the end of the terror bombing Americans were
about evenly split on the issue. Pretty impresive, considering the
relentless barrage of war propaganda hitting them from all sides.


> Ditto their great underappreciated concern that
> their government has starved and poisoned a million Iraqis? 

How many of them know this? I'd be impressed if it was more than 10%.

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