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1. Agree 100%

Reply to Cyrano (Original post)

Fri Oct 23, 2020, 09:58 AM

Oct 2020

This may be the nadir of our country, and I'm saying that after the Palmer Raids, nuking Japan twice, the Red Scare, COINTELPRO, the "secret" war in Cambodia, Iran/contra, the Bush pardons, the hideously misnamed USA PATRIOT Act, the Guantanamo concentration camp, ongoing torture regimes, and drone attacks on civilian targets.

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This stain will never wash away [View all] Cyrano Oct 2020 OP

Agree 100% gratuitous Oct 2020 #1

+1 Ferrets are Cool Oct 2020 #3

Exactly! TY! Duppers Oct 2020 #12

"Wouldn't we have stormed the White House?" Ferrets are Cool Oct 2020 #2

Here's what haunts me. The cry of a child screaming "Mommy, Mommy." Cyrano Oct 2020 #4

I agree Ferrets are Cool Oct 2020 #10

And one more thing Cyrano Oct 2020 #5

In a kennel sleeping on a concrete floor with a space blanket to keep him warm. nt csziggy Oct 2020 #24

K&R Solly Mack Oct 2020 #6

100 times that number of children were killed in our adventure in Iraq inwiththenew Oct 2020 #7

Dick Cheney and George W. Bush must be held accountable Cyrano Oct 2020 #8

It's more like "... and liberty and justice for all republicans." the hell with everyone else KS Toronado Oct 2020 #16

This x 1000 Ferrets are Cool Oct 2020 #11

I will never forgive the Democrats who voted for that obviously(even at the time) trumped-up war Yeehah Oct 2020 #17

Child trafficking is paying greatly for Trump's friends running the camps. Million$ keithbvadu2 Oct 2020 #9

It's going to take a Democratic Senate and House to mobilize BarbD Oct 2020 #13

Nuremberg trial for them all- I want an Independent Prosecutor to investigate everyone Fiendish Thingy Oct 2020 #14

+1 sandensea Oct 2020 #19

50 years from now, there will still be (adult) children reunited with parents for first time. nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2020 #15

What concerns me, other than the fact that these children are being mistreated daily, is.... George II Oct 2020 #18

As Oscar Hammerstein wrote: "You've got to be taught to hate ..." Cyrano Oct 2020 #25

These children and their parents are in my mind daily cp Oct 2020 #20

As soon as this election is over, we need to start agitating for an Independent Counsel. Lonestarblue Oct 2020 #21

As a mother and a grandma, thoughts of those kids in cages calimary Oct 2020 #22

Listen, calimary. You, I, and most of us were helpless. Cyrano Oct 2020 #23

I'm guessing very few people have committed and gotten away with Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2020 #26

Biden built the cages? Capperdan Oct 2020 #27