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From: brian@sequent.UUCP (Brian Godfrey)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
Message-ID: <1952@sequent.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-May-86 10:35:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  1 10:35:15 1986
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Reply-To: brian@sequent.UUCP (Brian Godfrey)
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>Well, I doubt that you will find people in America who share your
>views, because the brainwashing there is getting rather complete.  I
>wonder if the coverage on European news stations even made it to the
>US.  It certainly was not on the US propaganda stations here (W.
>Germany).  There was basically no coverage on either the Voice Of
>America (well, only to say that the White House had recieved
>congratulations from its allies on the sucessful action against
>Libya!!!) or on the Armed Forced Radio (there was a thirty second

   Of course the government run stations are going to give the rosy view.
The commercial stations are real muckrakers and probably give a more honest
-well complete, anyway- view. Don't be so gullible as to believe that the
government run propaganda stations represent the views of most Americans.

>Raygun is getting ready to start a very big war.  And the US populace

   Naaaa.

>And for all of this, Raygun is very popular.  Goes to show how far the
>brainwashing has progressed.  Just look at the popular movies in the
>US to see the general attitude.  Rambo, Rocky, Phantom Commando, etc.,
>etc., etc.  "Kill those guys, they are the Enemy!!!!!!!!!!!"

   Probably less than ten percent of the population has seen any of those 
movies. Of those I know who have all think they are stupid and unrealistic.
I understand that the Rambo and Rocky movies have been pretty popular in
Europe, too. Those Europeans must be a bunch of real bloodthirsty cutthroats!

>When these things happen, it makes me very glad i no longer live in
>the USA.

   Me too.

--Brian