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In reply to the discussion: Why Hagel over someone like General Wes Clark [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)journalists and veterans and had no idea why there was a foreign army in their country.
Please don't try to sell Bush's deceptions here. No DUer ever bought the Bush/Cheney lies. They were NOT 'protecting the Homeland' (what a horrible word that is btw) they were following an agenda laid out by people who had no interest in what was good for this country and unless you were asleep during that time, you would know that.
Iraq and Afghanistan were based on lies, from the excuses made to go to war, to the outrageous lies about how long they would take and how much they would cost. Not a single word of truth was told to the American people about those wars. And if the whole world and at least half the American people were able to figure that out even with all the propaganda we were subjected to, I have zero respect for any politician who still tries to convince that it was Bush's fault because they didn't know he was lying. WE KNEW and they should have known and I believe most of them did, but they didn't have the guts to say 'no' and/or they thought it would benefit their careers, and worst reason, they supported Bush's policies.