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In reply to the discussion: How I found out the Bushies were lying about Iraq (before the war) [View all]rustydog
(9,186 posts)15. What fully convonced me they were lying
When they were screaming about botulin toxins, nerve gas, and WMD's AND do you want your proof to be a mushroom cloud?????Do Ya? Do YA!!!
Then, all that GW and company could do after challenging our patriotism , after diverting all our spy satellites to catch Saddam in the act, is produce a hand-drawn image of what Saddam's trailers of mass destruction looked like.
Why a drawing? Because not one evidentiary photo existed to buttress his claim.If they had just one satellite image of a garbage truck going down an Iraqi highway, Bush Co would have asserted it was a weapons trailer. They didn't even have that, they had to resort to an artists rendering.
War Criminals every one.
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I knew when Bush promoted an MIA pilot from 1st war & refused aid to look for him
on point
Jun 2014
#4
That was so laughable. It was the "Old Shoe" ploy right out of Wag the Dog.
Gidney N Cloyd
Jun 2014
#12
It was easy to go figure. Policy wars = wrong. Always has and always will be wrong.
L0oniX
Jun 2014
#31
Thanks for sharing, and welcome back. I think journaling some of our memories is important...
Hekate
Jun 2014
#13
Remember Powel showing those oil tanker trucks and saying they were mobile missile trucks?
L0oniX
Jun 2014
#32
As I've said many many times, the blame lies squarely at the feet of the media.
MindPilot
Jun 2014
#17
Thanks MaggieD.. we knew it too. It was so obvious they were cooking the books to bomb Iraq
Cha
Jun 2014
#18
My simple reason: THEY ARE REPUBLICANS. To purloin a phrase: That is all ye need to know.
WinkyDink
Jun 2014
#60
Looking back, it was such a frightening time. It was our "tasting menu" of Fascism.
chrisa
Jun 2014
#62
I am still haunted by a comment I saw made by then Sec of Treasury John Snow. He was asked, on the
vanlassie
Jun 2014
#63
January 2001 The Onion knew that Bush was going to start a war in the Middle East
csziggy
Jun 2014
#67