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Comrade Grumpy

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17. Meanwhile the CIA's secret armies are running the CIA's secret wars.

Reply to JohnnyRingo (Reply #12)

Sat May 24, 2014, 04:19 PM

May 2014

From Somalia to Pakistan. Not to mention stirring shit in Iran, Syria, Central Africa, and more.

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

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To those so vigorously defending Assange naming "Victim Country X"... [View all] JohnnyRingo May 2014 OP

"people here are ready to defend Julian Assange and Dick Cheney" bobduca May 2014 #1

In what way do the actions of Cheney and Assange differ? JohnnyRingo May 2014 #2

Disagreeing with the decision to out Afganistan is fine bobduca May 2014 #3

Thank you, bob RobertEarl May 2014 #6

Perhaps I was inarticulate. JohnnyRingo May 2014 #10

Thanks for the clarification bobduca May 2014 #14

Actually they don't always know how we surveil them... JohnnyRingo May 2014 #16

skepticism is not isolationism bobduca May 2014 #18

I misunderstood you JohnnyRingo May 2014 #19

Greenwald is well-off a US citizen, and free to come and go. So is Cheney. bemildred May 2014 #4

Motivation? Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2014 #7

Almost everyone knows we spy on Afghanistan ... GeorgeGist May 2014 #5

...and Cheney's people called Plame's CIA involvement an "open secret. JohnnyRingo May 2014 #11

Assange is basically screwing up Snowden's situation ProSense May 2014 #8

You seem to presume that everything the CIA does is hunky-dory. Comrade Grumpy May 2014 #9

Valerie Plame was investigating the yellowcake sale from Niger to Iraq. JohnnyRingo May 2014 #12

Meanwhile the CIA's secret armies are running the CIA's secret wars. Comrade Grumpy May 2014 #17

Considering the CIA's lengthy record of humanitarian policies and acts.... Tierra_y_Libertad May 2014 #13

Assange is well-known for not giving a shit about people in Afghanistan...... msanthrope May 2014 #15

I think the difference to them hinges on treestar May 2014 #20

Didn't the Repubs (Issa or whoever) spill the beans CJCRANE May 2014 #21

Assange can say... iandhr May 2014 #22