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A Reverse August 1914. Peace Through Miscalculation..... (Original Post) Junkdrawer Sep 2013 OP
buying the corporate media spin, I see Pretzel_Warrior Sep 2013 #1
Nope. Read the transcripts. Been paying CLOSE attention all summer. n/t Junkdrawer Sep 2013 #2
More like reverse psychology. pnwmom Sep 2013 #3
Ain't no stink eye like the one Kerry's about to get from Susan Rice... Junkdrawer Sep 2013 #4
He planned it this way. rug Sep 2013 #5
LOL. Perfect.... Junkdrawer Sep 2013 #6
We can only hope for accidental peace Hydra Sep 2013 #7
I'll take it. Benton D Struckcheon Sep 2013 #8
The quarter fell and landed on its side.... Junkdrawer Sep 2013 #9

pnwmom

(108,976 posts)
3. More like reverse psychology.
Mon Sep 9, 2013, 08:17 PM
Sep 2013

Telling a stubborn, argumentative person you KNOW they won't do something in order to get them to do something.

(Kerry: if they'd give up their c.w. that would stop this -- but they'd NEVER do that.)

Hydra

(14,459 posts)
7. We can only hope for accidental peace
Mon Sep 9, 2013, 08:36 PM
Sep 2013

I love the talking point that this was President Obama's plan all along.

Had Joe Wilson stopped the Iraq invasion...would Bush have been the Genius who stopped his own plan?

Benton D Struckcheon

(2,347 posts)
8. I'll take it.
Mon Sep 9, 2013, 08:42 PM
Sep 2013

99 years and one month after stumbling into a war that really didn't end until nearly 30 years later and killed tens and tens of millions of people all over the world, and made additional millions homeless or maimed them for life. It would be appropriate.

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