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5. Like it made a flea's fart of difference

Reply to Nitram (Original post)

Thu Dec 3, 2015, 03:19 PM

Dec 2015

Bush was determined to get his war on, the media were all agog about the pretty pictures an invasion would surely generate as well as the journalism awards that would follow for the war correspondents, and there were enough people scared, misinformed, or bloodthirsty enough to make a credible popular groundswell for a war.

And we're continuing to pay for this lovely little occupation to this very day, handicapped by the Bush era tax cuts. Always lots of money for wars, no money for the country.

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2002 Bush is enraged that UN weapons inspectors are not finding any hidden weapons. [View all] Nitram Dec 2015 OP

Mass murderers, W and Cheney... randys1 Dec 2015 #1

+1,000 malaise Dec 2015 #6

Selective memory is not helping the future! RayLib Dec 2015 #2

I'd suggest looking at a timeline before accusing anyone of "selective memory" Nitram Dec 2015 #4

More selective fact finding! RayLib Dec 2015 #9

im shocked shocked i tell ya to see bernie supporters mis-representing the truth saturnsring Dec 2015 #13

BS on steroids malaise Dec 2015 #8

De Nile is not just a river RayLib Dec 2015 #10

bs was your cherry picked intelligence saturnsring Dec 2015 #15

your? RayLib Dec 2015 #17

yes you posted it it's yours saturnsring Dec 2015 #19

Amazing RayLib Dec 2015 #20

I remember CNN before invasion... ReasonableToo Dec 2015 #3

We are so ignorant of what's going on around the world... RayLib Dec 2015 #12

Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2015 #18

Like it made a flea's fart of difference gratuitous Dec 2015 #5

Bush was determined to get his war on RayLib Dec 2015 #11

He pretty much destroyed Hans Blix Photographer Dec 2015 #7

I'm not sure Blix was destroyed, although they tried their best to discredit him. Nitram Dec 2015 #21

Madison: The means of defence against foreign danger... RayLib Dec 2015 #14

Oh, he would manage to see the lighter side of the missing WMDs deutsey Dec 2015 #16