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Glad you're here! MAN you said it! I am enraged every time I hear jeb bush and the rest of 'em say - with everything we knew... everybody would have done it. I loved the "well HILLARY woulda done it too..." What is he? A FIVE-YEAR-OLD??? Just got caught stealing crayons from the class crayon bin and all he can say is "well so-n-so woulda done it TOO!"
Besides, that's a baldfaced steaming pile of LIE. That's NOT TRUE that this was the only intel anybody got. THERE WERE TONS AND TONS of info that never got spoken about, never got aired on TV, never got considered, never got taken into consideration. ANY voices agitating AGAINST the war were shut out. Silenced. Muzzled. No photographs of the returning dead were allowed. People got FIRED for trying to take those photos. People got FIRED for trying to write or report the truth. The Knight-Ridder papers actually called it - and they got NO attention.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/17/the-reporting-team-that-g_n_91981.html
The many UN inspectors, the many experts on Iraq and the Middle East, the multitudes of credible voices who said this was a bad idea AND had plenty of solid evidence to back up that assertion - all summarily IGNORED. IGNORED!!! This was deliberate, too. There was PLENTY of information to lead to the opposite conclusion. PLENTY. And what makes me mad, yes, at Hillary, too (who, in my opinion was smart enough to have seen through this shit or at least to have looked at other input) is that - WE knew. WE had this info out in the public arena. WE knew. And we were ignored. Silenced. Dismissed. Demeaned. Called "Saddam lovers" and "Osama lovers" and traitors and "why do you hate America?" At one point I remember dubya even saying - "well, gimme the benefit of the doubt!" And with a track record of idiocy and recklessness like he had throughout his life, NOBODY should have given him the benefit of ANY doubt. Everyone should have known better. And they just blindly went along, while the media was utterly and intimately complicit. All you got was RAH RAH RAH for the war. That's all that was allowed. Phil Donahue lost his show on MSNBC because he actually did invite knowledgeable and credible war opponents on. The network brass got rid of him because of that. Oh NO! Can't have programming like THAT on the air! It was a complete hose job.
That's probably why you still get these sniveling pols from jebbie on down, trying to dance around it now. NOBODY likes to admit they were wrong, or worse - that they've been suckered. That they've been HAD. And in this case, bush/cheney HAD them alright. At the end of a fork.
And you better believe people remember. We all do, here and elsewhere all over the liberal/progressive landscape. And WE have to make SURE they don't forget.
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