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Originally Posted by BloodPhart
Empire? the US isn't an Empire, lol. Iraq won't be the 51st state.
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That's not what retired CIA
Chalmers Johnson thinks. He has written several books and has
said in lectures covered by C-SPAN (that I caught) as well as in the excellent documentary film
Why We Fight, that America is indeed an empire. He even points out that America has 725 military bases all around the world in 130 foreign countries as well as a number of covert bases that aren't in that number of 725. He says that America is
indeed an empire. It's an empire on the sly, not in the open, but an empire nonetheless.
See the
Why We Fight website (below) and watch the film's trailer. Then go inside the site and check out several video excerpts from this excellent documentary.
Why We Fight (2005) - A Film By Eugene Jarecki