🚀 go-pugleaf

for killing 10,000 people worldwide each year,
#   most of them innocent civilians, including children.
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#   Never before has the momentum to ban all land mines been so strong. A high
#   percentage of battlefield casualties among American troops are by mines.
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#   Yet President Clinton and Vice President Gore are meekly yielding to the
#   wrongheaded opposition of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, even though they
#   claim to support the ban themselves.
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#   Even General Norman Schwarzkopf and pro-military Republican Senators like
#   John McCain, Alfonse D'Amato and Chuck Hagel have all endorsed the ban.
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#   America's proud tradition of CIVILIAN CONTROL [a distant memory!] of the
#   military gives the President responsibility for making the final decision.
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#   Mr. Clinton is shirking his responsibility.

The Military are in control of ALL KEY POLITICIANS.

They do so via Secrecy and Scary Stories and ECHELON.

#   "Covering Up Crimes", By Anthony Lewis, NYT, 5/5/97
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#   A Government official becomes aware that secret information shows
#   corruption and criminality in a Federal agency.
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