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In reply to the discussion: 130 More U.S. Troops to Iraq...There's Always Going to be an Excuse - This is Classic [View all]bigtree
(86,006 posts)17. Bush holdovers
. . . and people who should know better practicing willful amnesia.
People convinced they can wage limited war . . . just like the President was convinced in Afghanistan that if he split the difference between what his Bush hawks nested in the Pentagon were advocating - and his delusion that his own political instinct is left of center - that he'd produce a moderate war.
He ended up presiding over the killing of more of our troops defending the politics of Karzai than Bush lost exacting revenge for 9-11.
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130 More U.S. Troops to Iraq...There's Always Going to be an Excuse - This is Classic [View all]
bigtree
Aug 2014
OP
In my view, he's either a fool, a tool, or so lost inside the beltway, he can't see reality.
grahamhgreen
Aug 2014
#1
It's Incremental...and we have to see if Obama "holds firm" against Hillary's attacks from the Right
KoKo
Aug 2014
#3
when our organizing principle is 'trust' the president, instead of organizing around our values
bigtree
Aug 2014
#6
did they not conflate ISIS/ISIL with al-Qaeda at the very beginning of direct action?
bigtree
Aug 2014
#13
I agree with you that we have a variety of "interests" in the Kurdish part of northern Iraq.
Vattel
Aug 2014
#15
It was a disaster to believe we could just set up military bases where ever we want.
Rex
Aug 2014
#12
ISIS is just the latest incarnation of resistance to our nation's military meddling in Iraq
bigtree
Aug 2014
#24
well, I heard that Blame-America-First retort all through the Bush-era militarism
bigtree
Aug 2014
#28
Well...they attacked our ships in the Gulf of Tonk....they have WMD...Remember the Maine..or Alamo!
Tierra_y_Libertad
Aug 2014
#26