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"No evasive maneuver. I tell ya, I will give it to the commander of Air Base Eagle... Not only were there no bullets flying around, there was no bumblebee flying around," Retired Colonel William "Goose" Changose said.
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"Goose" was the pilot of the C17 that flew Hillary in. He also said that if there were any reports of snipers in the area they definitely would not have landed with the First Lady in the aircraft.
So even Hillary's caveated statement is now shown as untrue.
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Bread and Circuses is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader--the barbarians enter Rome.
-- Robert A. Heinlein, from "To Sail Beyond the Sunset"
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