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SHRED

(28,136 posts) Sat Jun 16, 2012, 06:39 PM Jun 2012

So when Anderson Cooper...

...gets that furrowed brow look of concern reporting on the tragic death and injury of children in Syria I just about "lose it". This is because I remember when the USA bombed Iraq and can't forget the women and children killed and maimed. I can't forget outlets like CNN with ther glorification of shock and awe.

What a disgustingly short memory these assholes have.
I'd love for just one of them to say we should not get on our high horse considering what we have wrought in the middle east...but they won't because they would be fired immediately.

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