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In reply to the discussion: The reason we're still fighting a pitched battle over the IWR: Revisionist History [View all]ReRe
(10,597 posts)21. Hear! Hear!
I remember GHWB's New World Order speech very well. I just couldn't understand what he meant by "New World Order." He forgot to define the term. It was like an edict. It stunk to high heaven to me.
Of course, now, with the passage of all these years, after the passage of those trade agreements that his adm started on (NAFTA and GATT), and after reading Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, I think I understand what he meant by "New World Order." Right down to the war on us, the American people, that you relate in your last paragraph.
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The reason we're still fighting a pitched battle over the IWR: Revisionist History [View all]
cali
Mar 2014
OP
Ironically, better politics would've been listening to people who knew what they were talking about
Hippo_Tron
Mar 2014
#76
Jeez Pro. Sorry I asked you a question that you thought was a gotcha question.
neverforget
Mar 2014
#60
You didn't know. Guessing right on a 50-50 Boolean proposition doesn't mean 'you knew' nt
stevenleser
Mar 2014
#77
WMD was a really stupid term used by Bush to conflate chemical/biological and nuclear weapons
Hippo_Tron
Mar 2014
#73
You've highlighted the problem with the OP and those who agree with her. Revisionist history. They
stevenleser
Mar 2014
#78
it reminds me of Iran-Contra: when Steadman Fagoth said 10,000 Miskito had been
MisterP
Mar 2014
#38
They made a calculated bet that Iraq War II would go as smoothly as Iraq War I. How wrong they were!
reformist2
Mar 2014
#39
You and I and millions of others weren't fooled but the defense for falling for the neocon
neverforget
Mar 2014
#64