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In reply to the discussion: New GOP talking point: it was the Democrats who lied us into war with Iraq [View all]Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)41. Holy bat guano, Batman!
There were Republican oilmen in the top two positions in government in 2003, who had bombed Iraq also as soon as they assumed power, and the father of one of them had even attacked Iraq 12 years earlier, but it was those mean old Democrats who demanded that we also go into Iraq in order to install a puppet government and take over their oil supply???
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New GOP talking point: it was the Democrats who lied us into war with Iraq [View all]
Rocknrule
May 2014
OP
When is Obama going to apologize for allowing those airliners to crash into the World Trade Center?
tclambert
May 2014
#12
One especially cynical neuron is firing that this may be a future useful op to bookmark. n/t
fleabiscuit
May 2014
#20
+10000000 Particularly when you ALSO then entrench, justify, and expand
woo me with science
May 2014
#22
Hillary and Kerry voted for it because they thought it politically expedient.
Tierra_y_Libertad
May 2014
#21
Not as bad? They voted for, and in Hillary's case, supported Bush's wars.
Tierra_y_Libertad
May 2014
#27
Just practice for doublethink, demanded daily of us by propagandists.
woo me with science
May 2014
#34