by TRUTH SAYER

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What do you call someone who explodes a bomb and kills innocent people? - A terrorist.

What do you call someone who drops a bomb from a plane and kills innocent people?

- A brave American pilot.

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What do you call it when a Palestinian uses violence against the Jews who have illegally occupied his land?

- A terrorist attack.

What do you call it when an Israeli helicopter fires rockets at Palestinian youths armed with stones?

- Self-defence.

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What do you call it when someone gives money to a government official in return for favors?

- Bribery.

What do you call it when a large corporation gives money to a government official in return for favors?

- A campaign contribution.

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What do you call the form of government where a small elite exploits and intimidates the citizens?

- A dictatorship.

What do you call the form of government where a small elite exploits and intimidates the citizens, and the citizens can choose every few years which part of the elite should occupy the government buildings?

- A democracy.

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What do you call it when someone carrying a gun enters your house and steals your valuable possessions? - An armed robbery.

What do you call it when a multinational corporation supported by armed forces enters your country and steals your valuable possessions?

- Free trade.

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What do you call it when a group of people take the law into their own hands and kill people without a fair trial?

- A lynching.

What do you call it when the US takes the law into its own hands and kills people without a fair trial?

- Operation Enduring Freedom.

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What do you call someone who steals from the rich and gives to the poor?

- Robin Hood.

What do you call someone who steals from the poor and gives to the rich?

- The US government.

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What do you call a weapon that can kill thousands of people?

- A weapon of mass destruction.

What do you call a weapon that has killed 1.5 million Iraqis, including more than 500,000 children?

- Sanctions.

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What do you call an army that will fight for whoever pays the most money? - Mercenaries.

What do you call an army in Afghanistan that will fight for whoever pays the most money?

- The Northern Alliance (or United Front).

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What do you call an attack on the Pentagon, a military command and control center in the US?

- A cowardly attack on American freedom and democracy.

What do you call the destruction of an Afghan village by US bombs?

- An attack on a Taliban military command and control center.

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What do you call it when just over 3 thousand people were killed in the September 11 attack on the US?

- An atrocity.

What do you call it when nearly 5 million people were killed in the Vietnam war?

- A mistake.

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What do you call it when very rich people exploit poor people?

- Greed and selfishness.

What do you call it when very rich countries exploit poor countries?

- Globalization.

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What do you call a foreign oppressor in the last century that controlled the economic and social life of a country? - A colonialist power.

What do you call a foreign oppressor in this century that controls the economic and social life of a country?

- The International Monetary Fund.

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What do you call it when people are slaughtered? - A massacre.

What do you call it when 100,000 to 200,000 Iraqis are slaughtered by the US at a loss to American forces of 148 (46 of which were killed by friendly fire)? - The Gulf War.

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What do you call members of the Ku Klux Klan, a white racist organization?

- American patriots.

What do you call members of the Black Panther party, a black racist organization?

- Prisoners on death row.

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What do you call the extermination of a people?

- Genocide.

What do you call the extermination of native Americans in the US?

- A glorious episode in American history.

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What do you call a US president who says, "Read my lips - no new taxes", and later breaks his promise?

- George Bush.

What do you call a US president who says, "No new taxes - over my dead body", and later ...?

- George W. Bush.

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What do you call someone who stands up in front of a crowd and tells stories? - An entertainer.

What do you call someone who stands up in front of a crowd at the Pentagon and tells stories?

- Donald Rumsfeld.

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What do you call a television station that broadcasts only the government's views?

- A propaganda station.

What do you call the BBC when the World News consists solely of half an hour of a Pentagon briefing?

- Fair and impartial.

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What do you call the 2002 presidential election in Zimbabwe where there were serious irregularities?

- A flawed election.

What do you call the 2000 presidential election in the US where there were serious irregularities?

- A victory for democracy.

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What do you call it when American Whites advocate an exclusively White state and the expulsion of all non-Whites?

- Racism.

What do you call it when Israeli Jews advocate an exclusively Jewish state and the expulsion of all non-Jews?

- Zionism.

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What is the name of the leader accused of trying to create an ethnically pure Greater Serbia?

- Slobodan Milosevic, now on trial as a war criminal.

What is the name of the leader trying to create an ethnically pure Greater Israel?

- Ariel Sharon, a "man of peace".

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What do you call a leader who sells out his country to a foreign power?

- A traitor, or Quisling.

What do you call a British leader who sells out his country to a foreign power?

- Tony Blair.

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Which Middle East country (whose name begins with I) does not possess nuclear weapons, has agreed to allow access to UN weapons inspectors, and is threatened with a military attack?

- Iraq.

Which Middle East country (whose name begins with I) possesses nuclear weapons, refuses to allow access to International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors and receives around $5 billion p.a. in aid from the US?

- Israel.

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What do you call it when Saddam Hussein kills his own people with chemical weapons?

- A crime against humanity.

What do you call it when the FBI uses chemical weapons to murder 96 US citizens (including women and children) in Waco, Texas?

- Law and order.