Bowling for Columbine
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in the schools. We hope to help
both teachers and students

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learn alternative ways
to deal with anger.

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- So you don't think our kids
say to themselves:

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"Well, gee, Dad goes off
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to the factory every day
and, you know,

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he built missiles." These
are weapons of mass destruction.

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What's the difference
between that mass destruction

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and the mass destruction
over at Columbine High School?

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- I guess I don't see
that connection,

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that specific connection,
because the missiles

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that you're talking about were
built and designed to defend us

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from somebody else who would be
aggressors against us.

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Societies and countries
and governments do things

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that annoy one another.
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But we have to learn
to deal with that annoyance

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or that anger or that
frustration in appropriate ways.

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We don't get irritated
with somebody

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and just 'cause we're mad
at them, uh,

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drop a bomb or shoot at them,
or fire a missile at them.

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[ What a Wonderful World
by Louis Armstrong ]

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1953: U.S. overthrows
Prime Minister Mossadeq of Iran.

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U.S. installs Shah as dictator.
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1954: U.S. overthrows
democratically-elected
President Arbenz of Guatemala.

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200,000 civilians killed.
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1963: U.S. backs assassination of
South Vietnamese President Diem.

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1963-1975: American military kills
4 million people in Southeast Asia.

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September 11, 1973:
U.S. stages coup in Chile.

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Democratically-elected President
Salvator Allende assassinated.

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Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed.
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5,000 Chileans murdered.
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1977: U.S. backs military rulers
of El Salvador.

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70,000 Salvadorans and
four American nuns killed.

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1980's: U.S. trains Osama bin Laden
and fellow terrorists to kill Soviets.

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CIA gives them $3 billion.
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1981: Reagan administration
trains and funds "contras".
30,000 Nicaraguans die.


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