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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTo be clear: any policy starting with "we broke it..." ends with "we occupy Iraq forever."
So unless we are OK with America occupying Iraq forever, "we broke it" is a bullshit premise to start from.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)And now we have to try and make amends for what that pervert did.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesnt always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one youre already in.[/center][/font][hr]
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)phantom power
(25,966 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesnt always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one youre already in.[/center][/font][hr]
phantom power
(25,966 posts)That's a bitter fucking pill, but it's a lesson America needs to learn. America. Not just Bush (who will never learn anything) or other conservatives. All of us.
JVS
(61,935 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)The Sikes Picot Agreement "broke" it...
deutsey
(20,166 posts)Let's see: impose artificial, unnatural boundaries around ancient warring factions and force them all to live as a single nation to the benefit of outside imperial powers.
Gee...what could possibly go wrong?
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)we won't be able to fix it. Only they can.
pampango
(24,692 posts)though there seems to be little we can do right now that will help them.
cali
(114,904 posts)We smashed Iraq and not recognizing that is just wrong.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)JVS
(61,935 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Last edited Fri Jun 13, 2014, 03:39 PM - Edit history (1)
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)After the oil is gone we won't care whether Iraq is broken or not.
DrDan
(20,411 posts)us
(don't interpret that as support for the invasion . . . I staunchly disagreed with that . . . I left the D Party within an hour of the IWR vote)