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bin laden is dead. his dream, however, is very much alive & what he wanted was to force america to bleed, fighting endless wars in the middle east--- and with the invasions of iraq & afghanistan costing 6,000 or so american (& ally) soldiers to be killed, a $4 trillion dollar bill & not to mention the 7.8 million refugees & “very conservative” estimate of 137,000 civilians killed in these two wars, as well as in neighboring pakistan--- in this, he has been quite successful, albeit posthumously so. at home, the citizens of the US have been forced into a state of permanent paranoia & stress wherein, the protection of the property within these borders is of utmost priority, creating 1,200+ government organizations dealing with homeland security & 2,000 private companies as well--- all in the name of keeping the empire strong. money that could be spent on our crumbling education system, giving our citizens universal health care, or bringing us out of increasing & intensifying unemployment, all has been used instead on the attempt at annihilating an enemy abroad whose number cannot be estimated whose face cannot be seen & whose base is not stagnant & therefore cannot be accurately identified, all in the name of revenge. though the american populace is supposed to believe that the intent of iraq’s obliteration was to “bring democracy” instead of squeezing the country like a sponge to suck off every last drop of its oil, the government that presently exists there under al-maliki does not consider its relationship with the US a friendly one & sees its relations with iran as being full of more possibility. 42 attacks a day is said to be the going rate of al-qaeda’s vengeance upon the people of iraq & when the US is pretending that it will leave soon, the world is watching a powder keg ready to explode. so in retrospect, if you are a citizen of the US, how exactly do you feel about what has occurred since that horrible morning? if you are a citizen of the world outside the borders of the empire how exactly do you feel about what has happened since the punch was thrown & connected?
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