I don’t fully trust anyone who is in power, nor those who want to be in power. They have every reason to lie to the masses, so everything they tell us should be researched and confirmed or denied. More than that, we need to know the WHOLE story behind what’s going on. This will sometimes require us to look back many years or decades in order to understand the sequence of events that lead us to the current situation. And we need to search through multiple sources of information, from different perspectives, in order to get even a hint of the truth.
We know for a fact that we’ve been lied to on many occasions in the past. The government and the MSM mouthpieces have lost credibility. We should not go to war unless there is ample, verified evidence that the American people, here in this country, would be endangered if not for military action.
No more wars for oil companies or the military industrial complex. No more wars that leave in their wake “collateral damage” where tens or hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians are left dead or maimed.
I always find it ironic that we don’t have enough money for healthcare or Social Security, but there is never any hesitation to spend trillions of dollars on wars, drones, and killing machines.[/quote]
I pretty much agree with all of this. I was only responding to what appeared to be a knee-jerk reaction rejecting what the US government says, in favor of what other, equally untrustworthy governments claims.
I don’t think most ordinary people will ever really know the truth. The fact is, we will never know if what we’re looking at is genuine evidence, and in many cases don’t have the technical knowledge to evaluate raw evidence even if we did have access.
There are some names on that list that make me a little skeptical, though not all. And none of them make me near as skeptical as Brennan, Clapper and Alexander.
