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UTUSN

(70,708 posts)
Mon Oct 21, 2013, 09:39 PM Oct 2013

Revisionist history *ALERT* - NOW the "reason" for the illegal Iraq ATTACK

Back when all of us here knew it was a phony/whatever, and Shrub-CHEENEE kept rolling out, every week, a NEW "reason" for the Iraq Attack... ("Saddam tried to kill my DADDY!1&quot

Yet, WE all knew NOT.

Well, back then, the local radio wingnut actually spoke the truth: "We need to kick some (ethnic) butt!1"

So now, lo, these many years, the REVISIONIST Rethug machine is in gear, and they're omitting the ethnic identity.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/20/bush-official-iraq_n_4132719.html?icid=maing-grid7

[font size=5]Former Bush Official: We Went Into Iraq Because 'We Were Looking For [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Somebody's[/FONT] Ass To Kick'[/font]

New York Times reporter Peter Baker is out with a new book that reportedly reveals some eyebrow-raising details about the Iraq War.

A senior official from former President George W. Bush's administration is quoted in “Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House” saying American troops went into Iraq because the U.S. was looking for a fight.

"The only reason we went into Iraq, I tell people [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]now[/FONT], is we were looking for somebody’s ass to kick. Afghanistan was too easy," the anonymous official said, according to Politico.

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Revisionist history *ALERT* - NOW the "reason" for the illegal Iraq ATTACK (Original Post) UTUSN Oct 2013 OP
bullies and cowards SummerSnow Oct 2013 #1
Listing the "reasons" UTUSN Oct 2013 #2
Real reason?? P.N.A.C. Otherwise known as Project for New American Century. shraby Oct 2013 #3
Yip, but back then their "selling" was a floundering affair n/t UTUSN Oct 2013 #5
"We" didn't do jackshit, they sent a bunch of men and women over there to die. Uncle Joe Oct 2013 #4
Wow, you're welcome!1 n/t UTUSN Oct 2013 #6

UTUSN

(70,708 posts)
2. Listing the "reasons"
Mon Oct 21, 2013, 09:58 PM
Oct 2013

* 9-11

* Saddam tried to kill my daddy!1

* I gotta WIN what my daddy COULDN'T win!1

* Dick (CHEENEE) told me to.

* We're WOODROW WILSON OURSELVES, gonna bring FREEDOM to (ethnic group)!

*

shraby

(21,946 posts)
3. Real reason?? P.N.A.C. Otherwise known as Project for New American Century.
Mon Oct 21, 2013, 10:02 PM
Oct 2013

The document lays it all out in plain English.

Uncle Joe

(58,365 posts)
4. "We" didn't do jackshit, they sent a bunch of men and women over there to die.
Mon Oct 21, 2013, 10:04 PM
Oct 2013

Thanks for the thread, UTUSN.

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