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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts) Sun Jun 22, 2014, 09:29 AM Jun 2014

Cartoon for June 21, 2014: If Obama Had Been President in 1975

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Cartoon for June 21, 2014: If Obama Had Been President in 1975
by Ted Rall | June 21, 2014 - 8:26am

As the government of Iraqi President Maliki teeters on the verge of collapse in the face of an insurgent assault by radical Sunnis, President Obama is sending 300 Special Forces soldiers back to Iraq. Propping up this lost cause makes one ask, what if President Ford had sent military advisers back to Vietnam as Saigon was being evacuated? Aren’t military advisers the start, rather the end, of a typical US intervention?

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Cartoon for June 21, 2014: If Obama Had Been President in 1975 (Original Post) unhappycamper Jun 2014 OP

Ugh I know the US created this Mess with Dick Co. Heather MC Jun 2014 #1

Not likely. EEO Jun 2014 #3

Well it is not a problem we can fix, Unless Heather MC Jun 2014 #4

Ugh. EEO Jun 2014 #2

Heather MC

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1. Ugh I know the US created this Mess with Dick Co.

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sun Jun 22, 2014, 10:01 AM

Jun 2014

But, sending more Americans over there to come back home in body bag will not help.

Maybe once they get done killing each other in the Name of god, the will get it out of their system once and for all.