” [After 9/11] I saw the State, in particular Washington, construct a new way to legitimise itself – by finding an enemy, almost any enemy [Iraq] to prove its necessity to a population that would otherwise doubt its need for a state that had failed to protect it.
Carne Ross, former Head of the Middle East section at the United Nations
Russell Brand: Never Trust the Government – Whistleblower Reveals Why
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