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Powell Aide Says Case for War a 'Hoax'
PBS recently aired an interview with Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson (Ret), Chief of Staff at the Department of State from Aug 2002 - January 2005, addressing some of the skepticism surrounding the pre-war claims made by the Bush administration. Wilkerson claims in no uncertain terms that he "participated in a hoax on the American people, the international community and the United Nations Security Council." This is not the first time that Wilkerson has spoken out against the administration and intelligence community.
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'nuff said.
Regarless of your political leanings, if you "give up" on these terrorist, and let them have their way, you can kiss your butt goodbye, UNLESS, you CONVERT, and do EXACTLY as they say. If you go back in history and read, just for example, some of the political discussion of the period, you will find an almost EXACT mirror image of what is going on today. Talk to them, have a dialog with them, make a "peace treaty" with them. See where that got the world? 6 years of war, untold numbers of death & destruction, and the cold war for over 50 years. Kill them now, kill them over there, and you will prevent a more violent end to rid the world of these terrorist. When (not if, because of the useless UN) Iran gets its hands on a nuke, watch how much the world will bend over and kiss its butt to keep them from using it. And, end the end they will use it anyway. Just like hitler said he wouldn't invade his neighbors after Nevil Chamberlin signed an agreement which he said "peace in our time". You cannot negociate with these idiots, so kill them now, or suffer the death and destruction later.
1> Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, and we defeated Hussein in a month in early 1991 - 15 years ago.
Hussein was defeated? Really? Is that how he continued to defy UN sanctions? Please.
2> Bin Laden (remember him, Dexter?) had training camps in Afghanistan which Clinton bombed after bin Laden attacked US embassies in Africa.
3> At the same time, the Republican Congress impeached Clinton for lying about a blowjob.
Oh, you mean the same Bin Laden who still attacked us after Clinton's limp wristed attempt as defeating him. You're just kidding yourself if you think the attack on Afganistan was anything more than an attempt to distract the public. Both of us, and the majority of the worlds populace, know that if Clinton wanted Bin Laden dead it would have been a done deal.
And to top that off Clinton's little friend Reno claiming that the reason she did nothing about terrorism was the Oaklahoma City Bombing? It took her years to figure out what was going on when they had the bomber in custody less than 48 hours later? Good lord!
Don't bother answering - I know you think the blowjob is more important. But your answer to whether hoaxing us into Iraq is impeachable will actually be a useful demonstration of just how well your denial machine is operating.
No, but STILL (and understand this clearly) the attacks on Afganistan meant to distract the population of the US from Clinton's legal issues spurred on an increase in terrorism. FACE THE FACTS!
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> I have a class this semester where the teacher encourages political debate, he is a liberal and I am a neo-con (I love that), so we get into the topic of the war in Iraq, and he says "You know why we went into Iraq right? OIL!" and so I politely responded "See, I just don't see what we have to gain by overtaking Iraq, in terms of oil." to which he responded "That's right, we don't! It's not worth it!". He made my point quite cleary, and quickly realized the quandary he had gotten into so we moved on at that point. The fact that Iraq exports oil is not just a coincidence, it is not a reason for going to war but it WOULD explain why Iraq is so corrupt, that is the only correlation I, myself, can make between the Iraq war and oil.
It's a no-brainer. Iraq had been under sanctions for a decade, and Big Oil was missing out on the action. To an Oil President, that situation could not be allowed to continue.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
This should tell you that its stupid to buy your marijuana from mexico or any other foreign place.
Second, the war on terror is not a hoax, it's real, and its been planned since perhaps before we were alive. My suggestion is to just survive whatever happens, and hopefully we will end up with a much smaller government, although I doubt it because Republicans seem to want big government these days.
Of course not. Look at Bush being villified for using a Clinton administration's intelligence program that was praised by the New York Times at its inception. The biggest lesson of the Bush administration is how easily people can be emotionally manipulated by a handful of media outlets and special interest groups. No, I am not talking about Bush supporters. Despite the common anti-Bush notion that the media somehow does him all sorts of favors, it does not.
There is nothing you can do to stop a well funded suicidally driven person. Period.
I would disagree with that. I can think of several things we COULD be doing to stop a well funded suicidally driven person- and you're right, they're exactly the same things we'd do to stop Mexican Meth or Canadian Pot or any other smuggling if we really wanted to. A committment to isolationism and genocide is key- isolationism correctly done, with a 12 mile "cross this line and you die" zone, is the preventative. Genocide should be the response- those who kill our friends and families with suicide do not deserve to have their friends and families live. A combination of these two will eventually wipe out the rest of the world- and when the radiation dies down, we can have a new wave of the pioneer spirit....
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
An incendiary response but actually pretty insightful. I' m guessing that whoever modded you flamebait did not see that your tongue was in your cheek. the key words are "if we really wanted to". That hits the nail on the head. Could we stop illegals from crossing over? Stem the flow of drugs crossing the borders? Of course. How much money do we want to throw in that direction. Don't forget though, those mexicans are propping a large segment of our economy up with their cheap replaceable labor. Therefore we don't really want to stop them we just want to control and slow them down, as dysfunctional as the whole thing sounds.
,"What makes America Great?" the answer is a loud and resounding, "IMMIGRANTS!"
And the reason behind that is that we don't want to actually do the work to have a real economy that provides a reasonable standard of living for citizens. Instead we focus on cheap and replacable labor- and take the meth and drug problems as part of the price. I find that sad.
If the question is
If we need immigrants or in fact anybody else to make America Great, then we really should be questioning what we mean by the word "Great". I'd personally say that makes the American economy a huge and dismal failure- and our utter lack of ability to net export at all in the last 30 years is the nail in THAT coffin. If we really wanted to make America Great- we'd need to fight a couple more world wars. We don't want to make America Great- the people who are in charge are quite content with simply amassing huge amounts of money at the expense of everybody else, especially those "IMMIGRANTS".
Yes, what I said was partially tounge in cheek- but it was based in a sound understanding of just how corrupt society really is.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.