{"article":{"id":42887,"heading":"If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses","author":"Blum","created":"2003-03-29 04:30:03","modified":"2003-03-29 06:25:48","last_modified":"Sat, 29 Mar 2003 13:25:48","article":"<p>The American mind...is, politically, so deeply formed that to liberate it would involve uncommon, and as yet perhaps undiscovered, philosophical and surgical skill. The great majority of Americans, even the most cynical -- who need no convincing that the words that come out of a politician's mouth are a blend of mis-, dis-, and non-information, and should always carry a veracity health warning -- appear to lose their critical faculties when confronted by 'our boys who are risking their lives'. If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.\"<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"From &quot;Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower,&quot; by William Blum","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/03\/42887.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":42897,"heading":"BEEN THERE, DONE THAT","article":"Same crap...different page.  Better than a Jewish Mother's guilt trip.  They send them to their wars to be killed and blame us for noticing the immorality.  Two-faced bunch of assholes.  They didn't go to war, are too old to draft and can keep their kids from going.  No wonder they support wars - it makes money for them.\r\n\r\nJust remember that everyone of those body bags you see is bringing home pain beyond words to their loved ones.  And for what?  For corporate America...and to relect that War Criminal squatting on Federal land at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  \r\n\r\nFuck this shit.","author":"60's Flower Child","parent_id":42887,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-29 04:40:51","modified":"2003-03-29 04:40:51","fileurl":""},{"id":42928,"heading":"Support our Troops...","article":"...bring them home (but not in Body Bags).\r\n\r\nThe Insanity at 1600 PA Ave. is growing - like the disease it is.\r\n\r\nOne can care about one's brothers without supporting Bush's War of Conquest.","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":42887,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-29 06:25:52","modified":"2003-03-29 06:25:52","fileurl":""}]}