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But our national willingness to accept conquest, mass murder, torture, censorship, lies and puppet regimes, has changed forever how we think about ourselves. And unless we re-invent ourselves soon, we will forever lose touch with the democratic ideals that once defined our national self-concept. At that point the Phoenix will have come home to roost and, like the "New Iraq" we have created in our image, we will find ourselves living in a military dictatorship, under martial law, governed by emergency decrees. And don't say it can't happen here. [Douglas Valentine- Counterpunch - June 30, 2004]
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