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applegrove

(118,642 posts) Tue Mar 4, 2014, 05:23 PM Mar 2014

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Putin using US invasion of Iraq to justify

Crimea. Thanks Chenwy. Thanks Rumsfield. Thanks Bush. Such a great legacy you left to the world. And thanks to the current GOP for all that misdirection blaming Obama.

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Putin using US invasion of Iraq to justify (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2014 OP

Putin is 100% right gerogie2 Mar 2014 #1

*Nods* America hasn't exactly been setting a good example as the supposed world #1 for awhile now quinnox Mar 2014 #2

well.......... spanone Mar 2014 #3

We lost all moral credibility in the Iraq invasion of 2003. Aristus Mar 2014 #4

gerogie2

(450 posts)

1. Putin is 100% right

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Mar 4, 2014, 05:58 PM

Mar 2014

America and the UK set the bar in 2003 for the 21st century. If you don't like a country invade it and kill people.

quinnox

(20,600 posts)

2. *Nods* America hasn't exactly been setting a good example as the supposed world #1 for awhile now

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Mar 4, 2014, 06:01 PM

Mar 2014

And sorry, but people don't think that - "Do as I say, not as I do" is a very convincing argument.

spanone

(135,831 posts)

3. well..........

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Mar 4, 2014, 06:03 PM

Mar 2014

Aristus

(66,328 posts)

4. We lost all moral credibility in the Iraq invasion of 2003.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Mar 4, 2014, 06:07 PM

Mar 2014

That was the day we joined, as President Bartlet of The West Wing might have phrased it, "The League Of Ordinary Nations."

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