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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
~~ Mahatma Gandhi ~~ (1869 - 1948)

So true and as events of the past few years in Iraq have shown that those in positions of power could not care less as to how much death or destruction their actions will cause. They have an agenda and they will follow that agenda conveniently using the holy name of liberty and democracy as a cloak. How much death and destruction their agenda will cause doesn’t seem to enter into their calculations or, which is even more likely, they are not intelligent enough to figure out death and destruction their actions will cause. Even worse, they usually laugh off the death and destruction caused by their actions as ‘collateral damage.’ For the dead, maimed or orphaned, the damage is not collateral but as real as the real can be.

And Iraq is just one of the examples of such madness. There have been many others in the past and, undoubtedly, there will be many in the future. The only way to stop such madness will be for the people all over the globe to rein-in their governments. The politicians have demonstrated time and again that they cannot be trusted.

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