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In reply to the discussion: Anti-war protesters were right. Iraq invasion has led to chaos. [View all]Rex
(65,616 posts)19. Thank you, that is true only ONE group did stand up.
I remember watching Al Sharpton standing under a tent in the rain on TV denouncing this atrocity and demanding people protest these illegal actions. OF COURSE nobody did and everyone went home pretending a coup did not just occur via the SCOTUS.
And Gore and Lieberman went on their merry ways while the rest of us were standing out in the cold rain with Al wondering WTF just happened to our democracy?
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What was most to Halliburton's advantage? Two different options at two two different times.
maddiemom
Sep 2015
#61
"the cost has been too great" < I don't think the costs have even started yet. There is a big
jtuck004
Sep 2015
#4
Dem Establishment in 2016 puts up a candidate who voted to authorize the travesty
Dems to Win
Sep 2015
#8
I can't forget that video of Wes Clark telling about the 7 countries we would invade.
madfloridian
Sep 2015
#36
Also it does not help when your occupying force leaves behind guns, ammo, armored vehicles
Rex
Sep 2015
#70
"Call Congress right fucking now!" has become a reality instead of a tag line!
CTyankee
Sep 2015
#31
The same crew, Third Way Dems and repubs, will do it all again when the war drums
Zorra
Sep 2015
#54
Project for a New American Century should be all the evidence anyone needs to convict Cheney
Rex
Sep 2015
#74
Said it then, I'll say it again, "You can start a war, but you can't just stop it."
L. Coyote
Sep 2015
#79
It was supposed to be, in their crackpot plans, a quick and dirty conquest. The $$$$$ would be in
WinkyDink
Sep 2015
#91
Well, yes, that too, however, cheney*/bush* knew (well cheney*knew, bush* muddled through it...
Raster
Sep 2015
#92
I still beg to differ. They built the US's largest embasssy ever in Iraq. I think they wanted an
WinkyDink
Sep 2015
#95
I don't think we differ that much. Yes, we built the world's largest, most hardened embassy in Iraq
Raster
Sep 2015
#96
Heh---Your allusion to Puerto Rico got me thinking of "West Side Story." "I like to be in the
WinkyDink
Sep 2015
#103
Iraq seems to be a major cause, especially regarding Kurds and Iran ...
JustABozoOnThisBus
Sep 2015
#89
Yet another "N S, S" moment for the media to take note of, too little, too late.
WinkyDink
Sep 2015
#90
I remember how anthropologists who understood the region tried to be heard...
polichick
Sep 2015
#101