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drray23

(8,586 posts)
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 10:31 PM Saturday

People have short memories.

We will be greeted as liberators. It wont cost us anything, their oil will pay for it. Venezuelans are cheering on Maduro being removed and it was mission accomplished in a day...

What does this remind you of ?

Exactly the same down to the manufacturing of bogus reasons like weapon of mass destruction being equated with fentanyl ( https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/designating-fentanyl-as-a-weapon-of-mass-destruction/)



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People have short memories. (Original Post) drray23 Saturday OP
You saying they aren't greeting us with flowers? leftstreet Saturday #1
Putin thought that when he invaded Ukraine. Aussie105 Sunday #7
Reminds me of usonian Saturday #2
I've already forgotten about it. Polly Hennessey Saturday #3
Americans, especially, have short memories. Haggard Celine Saturday #4
People are also stupid progressoid Sunday #5
And at least 40 killed in the attack. C Moon Sunday #6
a long line... Mr.Bee Sunday #8
What I posted on DU in 2002... Kid Berwyn Sunday #9

usonian

(23,571 posts)
2. Reminds me of
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 10:40 PM
Saturday


Sole purpose is to bury Epstein's memory after he buried Epstein.


WAG THE DOG.

Haggard Celine

(17,680 posts)
4. Americans, especially, have short memories.
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 11:55 PM
Saturday

That's a weakness and a strength. We're good at going in and overthrowing governments, but not so good at dealing with the aftermath and governing. We install people who are nearly or just as corrupt as the regimes we topple. It's all about money. If the Venezuelan people are helped by any of this, it will be a pleasant accident.

progressoid

(52,585 posts)
5. People are also stupid
Sun Jan 4, 2026, 12:08 AM
Sunday
Poll: Half of Republicans still believe WMDs found in Iraq

By Kendall Breitman01/07/2015 05:38 AM EST

Republicans and Fox News viewers are more likely to hold false beliefs about the president and the war in Iraq, according to a new poll.

In a Public Mind pollfrom Fairleigh Dickinson University released Wednesday, more than half of Republicans — 51 percent — and half of those who watch Fox News — 52 percent — say that they believe it to be “definitely true” or “probably true” that American forces found an active weapons of mass destruction program in Iraq.

Thirty-two percent of Democrats, 46 percent of independents, 41 percent of people who reported to watch CNN and 14 percent of MSNBC viewers answered similarly.

Overall, 42 percent still believe that troops discovered WMDs, a misleading factor in the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. It was later found that Iraq did have individual stockpilesof chemical weapons, but there was no active WMD program in the country.

...https://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/poll-republicans-wmds-iraq-114016
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