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(297,722 posts)Perfect, napkinz.. gotta put this on FB.
today's serenity prayer..
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Today's Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity to accept Bush neocons opining on Iraq and the wisdom not to shatter my TV.
Amen.
2:19 AM - 17 Jun 2014
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napkinz
(17,199 posts)... he succumbed to the dark side of the force and became Darth Vader.
Cha
(297,722 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)smallcat88
(426 posts)Cheney realized he could make a bundle on a stupid war. That changed his mind.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)American and Iraqi
Mr.Bill
(24,330 posts)that in 2002 Obama was a Senator in the state of Illinois. He was not elected to the US Senate until 2004. Washington seldom listens to what every state senator has to say. It's too bad he wasn't a US Senator, he would have been speaking with a much louder voice.
LuvNewcastle
(16,858 posts)Maybe I'm forgetting someone, but I remember Kucinich being made fun of and marginalized ridiculed more than anyone else. The man was treated unfairly, and it needs to be addressed by everyone, especially in the media. I doubt it will be, though. All they'll do is make excuses for the people who promoted the war. Some liberal media we've got there!
Cha
(297,722 posts)eloquently said what millions of us were protesting against. The neo-cons weren't listening to Anybody.. they dead set to Bomb Iraq.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)nt
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)That suits all of them perfectly. And even some of the hawks who weren't part of the Bush ll administration, such as John "McMuffin Man" McCain. There's rarely a Sunday cable news show that he refuses.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)by Shayne Black
June 19, 2014
Now that the inevitable is happening in Iraq, the great neocon sage Dick Cheney has decided to crawl out of his bunker to tell us all how stupid Obama is, because invading Iraq in the first place, ending the lives of over 4000 American service men and women, injuring and maiming another 32,000, and racking up a bill exceeding one trillion dollars (much of which went to Dicks old employer) only to create a destabilized vacuum which would inevitably lead to civil war wasnt stupid. This time Dick even brought his very unlikable daughter, Liz, along for back up. Apparently her horribly failed bid for a Wyoming senate seat didnt make her look incompetent enough, so now shes an expert on middle-eastern policy.
Dick and Liz kicked things off this week with a co-authored WSJ op-ed in which they actually said, Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. The poor guy whos donor heart is now pumping black sludge through Dicks corpse must be rolling in his grave. The dynamic duo then followed up their not at all well received, even on Fox News, op-ed with the release of a campy video featuring Dick dressed in full Elmer Fudd regalia (as if we need a reminder that he shot a man in the face), announcing the launch of their new group, Alliance for a Strong America, because there arent enough right-wing groups whose mission it is to oppose Obama.
Since Cheney is obviously hell bent on reviving the old PNAC play book on Iraq, which is precisely what led to this bottomless hell hole in the first place, its time to dust off Cheneys words from the 90′s, fresh off the heels of Gulf War, when he openly admitted what we all, and by all I mean those of us who opposed the Iraq invasion, knew would result:
Another thing was casualties. Everyone was impressed with the fact that we were able to do our job with as few casualties as we had. But for the 146 Americans killed in action, and for their families, it wasnt a cheap war. And the question for the president, in terms of whether or not we went on to Baghdad and took additional casualties in an effort to get Saddam Hussein, was how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth? And our judgement was not very many and I think we got it right.
http://firebrandprogressives.org/that-time-dick-cheney-said-invading-iraq-quagmire/