As Levinson put it in ETC: A Review of General Semantics, "What was intended to be a strictly limited war between accuser and accused, Austria-Hungary and Serbia," ballooned into a bloody international war. It was based on "alliance system that brought about a mindless mechanical reaction once hostilities began," Levinson writes.

It actually began on June 28, 1914, when the "Black Hand," a Serbian group, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who was the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. So in retaliation, the government of Austria-Hungary demanded the killers be brought to justice or it would attack Serbia. When Serbia refused to accept the ultimatum, decided t

What happened? As was stated earlier, when there's oil and money and power involved, there is trouble, corruption, and profit. Realistically, there was never going to be an effective way of stopping Saddam from selling his enormous oil supplies, and from both profiting and getting weapons from friendly nations like China, Russia, Syria. And in fact the very weapons he was supposed to be prevented from buying - "missile components, surveillance equipment and tank barrels" - were nonetheless sold to him.

Meanwhile, France and Britain wanted to avoid war at all costs, but nobody and nothing was going to stop Hitler from launching a war "that would ultimately" involved most of Europe. And so, Hitler built a massive army backed by hitherto unprecedented machines of war, and, using the Treaty of Versailles to stir his people into believing that German had indeed been punished unfairly, he mapped out his plan to take over all of Europe, and eventually, the world. And the United States got into it only after being attacked in Hawaii by Japan, December 7, 1941.

QUESTION TWO: Oil-For-Food. One thing that is a part of this article that jumps out at the reader right away is the global thirst for oil, the need for oil, the lengths nations will go to have access to oil, the money associated with big oil nations and corporations, and the corruption - and or hostility and aggression - that seem invariably to follow wherever oil power-brokers (and wanna-bee's) make their stands, is amazingly predictable.

Also, the reviewer of Eubank's book, Amy Sims, writes that leaders of the other European nations that were involved in WWI deluded themselves into believing that another war of such devastation could "never be repeated." That was because they believed "sufficient security measure were in place to maintain peace."

Lyndon Johnson, the president who took over after John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated, sent hundreds of thousands of American troops to South Vietnam based on the "Gulf of Tonkin" incident. In U.S. News and World Report, Journalist Kevin Whitelaw explains that Johnson used two "reported" attacks against U.S. Navy ships in the Gulf of Tonkin to justify engaging our troops in South Vietnam. However, Whitelaw continues, NSA documents recently released prove "there never was a second attack," nor was there a first.

So, the United States got into the war after Johnson got a green light from the U.S. Senate based on attacks against Navy ships that never happened. And over 75,000 American servicemen and women were killed in an effort that America eventually lost. And today, Vietnam is under one government, the

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