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2016 Postmortem

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JayhawkSD

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5. And you make my point.
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 02:05 AM
Mar 2014
"Kerry had his eye on being president." And that was more important to him that being right on the issue.

"...had to balance the idea that there actually might have been WMD in Iraq." Then he was an idiot. It was readily apparent that most of what the Bush administration was pushing was nonsense. Powell's presentation to the UN was blatantly dishonest. Most of Europe knew there was no WMDs in Iraq. Bush ordered the inspectors, who told us there were no WMDs, out of Iraq even as our "shock and awe" mission was being fueled and armed.

It is hard to believe that anyone, after all these years, is still insisting that "there actually might have been WMD in Iraq," or that anyone with half a brain actually believed that such was the case.

Kerry, like many of his scurrilous ilk, put his personal political ambition ahead of his duty to his nation.
Trumped Up Wars [View all] kairos12 Mar 2014 OP
He voted Aye RobertEarl Mar 2014 #1
You realize, don't you, that makes it worse? JayhawkSD Mar 2014 #3
No excuses here RobertEarl Mar 2014 #4
And you make my point. JayhawkSD Mar 2014 #5
Yes. I did. So what? RobertEarl Mar 2014 #6
Um, the original topic was about that one man. JayhawkSD Mar 2014 #7
vietnam -> iraq burfman Mar 2014 #2
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