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noise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-13-09 04:02 AM Original message |
The "Iraq was a mistake" talking point |
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Electric Monk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-13-09 04:25 AM Response to Original message |
1. Mistake was the wrong word. I prefer 'diversion', fwiw. |
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noise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-13-09 04:32 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. I really don't understand why the public should accept this |
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tblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-13-09 04:34 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Oh but we're not supposed to remember what was said yesterday. |
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tblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-13-09 04:32 AM Response to Original message |
2. Al Qaeda was never not considered a genuine threat. But hey we're "looking forward." |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-13-09 04:44 AM Response to Original message |
5. Good questions. This is definitely " not wrong ": |
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paulsby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-13-09 05:11 AM Response to Original message |
6. tell it to hilary |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-13-09 05:19 AM Response to Original message |
7. it was not a mistake. It was sold with a lie and they thought they'd get away with it. |
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noise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-13-09 05:35 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Why isn't your analysis standard? |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-13-09 03:39 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. historians would not. Did we expand across the United States to quell the Indian terrorist menace? |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-13-09 04:52 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. more... |
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Gregorian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-13-09 04:35 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. People like being happy. |
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Goldstein1984 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-13-09 05:52 AM Response to Original message |
9. It all piles up pretty fast, doesn't it? |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-13-09 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
11. it was a deliberate criminal decision |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-13-09 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
12. ''Disaster Capitalism for Empire'' is a fancy phrase for warmongering. |
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Martin Eden (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-13-09 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
13. Iraq was PNAC; Afghanistan was FUBAR |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-14-09 06:30 AM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Very well put |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-13-09 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
15. Hand-in-hand with the "mistake" meme |
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Sparkly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-13-09 04:58 PM Response to Original message |
17. They wanted to invade Iraq long before 9/11. |
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Mithreal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-14-09 06:14 AM Response to Original message |
18. kick, good points in this discussion |
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