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lark

(25,374 posts)
11. Umm, don't know about that
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 01:11 PM
Feb 2013

The media falling over itself to paint him as our wonderful war leader and their uncritical praise and hiding so many inconvenient facts are what made the majority of americans "support" shrubbie. They also completely downplayed the anti-war marches and hid all the information they could that was really truthful, playing up all his and Cheney's lies. If the media had been honest brokers, the percentage of pro-war Americans would have plummetted, IMO.

Some of us - 40% according to the article - never bought the lies and knew the administration was either behind the attack or let it happen on purpose so they could get their war on and take control of Iraq's oil. Stupid jerks, they lost on every single account, hurting our country tremendously in the process. Cheney, Poppie, and a few others made a lot of wealth for themselves with this, and that was a big part of their strategy from the beginning. MAakes me sick and makes me sick that Obama will not let charges be brought against the traitors.

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And the beat goes on... CanSocDem Feb 2013 #1
I remember the look I got at the local camera store when I said Bush was lying in 2003... Octafish Feb 2013 #2
Don't you wish you could see them and ask them what they think now. Tikki Feb 2013 #3
Help! Is this letter on the up-and-up? Jackpine Radical Feb 2013 #6
Brilliant, love it ... Tikki Feb 2013 #8
And how. Octafish Feb 2013 #9
I got the same looks from the people I was working with at the time and for the same reasons..... OldDem2012 Feb 2013 #4
''United States of Amnesia'' Octafish Feb 2013 #12
Knowing that W knew what was about to happen.... OldDem2012 Feb 2013 #14
BUTBUTBUT he was a VACATION! pansypoo53219 Feb 2013 #10
Umm, don't know about that lark Feb 2013 #11
Come Hell libodem Feb 2013 #5
The Architecture of Empires Octafish Feb 2013 #15
They are still the same people, still with the same "looks"... Dryvinwhileblind Feb 2013 #7
The anger towards the Other is palpable. Octafish Feb 2013 #16
The collusion is now infestation, the hive mentality sold to the mob, easily manipulated... Dryvinwhileblind Feb 2013 #18
And no one in Congress or the White House is willing to address our bloated defense budget. Initech Feb 2013 #13
No one remembers the Peace Dividend on Capitol Hill. Octafish Feb 2013 #17
Is there no one from the Barack Obama Group to put in their two cents? nm rhett o rick Feb 2013 #19
Is this normal? Octafish Mar 2013 #20
Normal? What the hell is normal? nm rhett o rick Mar 2013 #21
Plame and Wilson are true patriots; the Bushcrime network are all traitors just1voice Mar 2013 #22
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