Bowling for Columbine
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1982: U.S. provides billions in aid
to Saddam Hussein for weapons
to kill Iranians.

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1987: White House secretly gives
Iran weapons to kill Iraqis.

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1989: CIA agent Manuel Noriega
(also serving as President of Panama)
disobeys orders from Washington.

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U.S. invades Panama
and removes Noriega.

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3,000 Panamanian civilian casualties.
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1990: Iraq invades Kuwait
with weapons from U.S.

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1991: U.S. enters Iraq.
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Bush reinstates dictator of Kuwait.
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1998: Clinton bombs
"weapons factory" in Sudan.

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Factory turns out
to be making aspirin.

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1991 to present: American planes
bomb Iraq on a weekly basis.

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U.N. estimates 500,000 Iraqi children
die from bombing and sanctions.

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2000-01: U.S. gives Taliban-ruled
Afghanistan $245 million in "aid."

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Sept.11, 2001: Osama bin Laden
uses his expert CIA training
to murder 3,000 people.

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[ end of What a Wonderful World ]
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[ screaming ]: Oh my goodness!
Oh my word!

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Oh my word!
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- South of Denver in Littleton,
on the grounds

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of the U.S. Air Force Academy,
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there sits
an actual B-52 bomber.

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The plaque underneath it
proudly proclaims

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that this plane
killed Vietnamese people

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on Christmas eve, 1972.
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It was the largest bombing
campaign of the Vietnam War.

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Just outside Denver
is Rocky Flats

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the largest plutonium-
weapons-making factory

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in the world,
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and now a massive
radioactive dump.

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A few miles away,
buried inside a mountain,

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is NORAD, which oversees
our nuclear missiles,


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