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Old 01-04-2014, 10:29 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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Why are you perpetuating a falsity that has already been debunked here multiple times?


The Iraq Invasion Archive-George W Bush announces his illegal invasion of Iraq - YouTube
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Old 01-04-2014, 10:33 AM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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"When you were a candidate, I called you a corporation running for the Presidency masquerading as a human being. In time you turned a metaphor into a reality. As a corporation, you express no remorse, no shame, no compassion and a resistance to admit anything other than that you have done nothing wrong."- Ralph

'The Country You Destroyed': A Letter to George W. Bush | Common Dreams
Great stuff.
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Old 01-04-2014, 10:34 AM
 
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So ?

To party loyalists like you, that absolves the D's of any responsibility. You revere a passel of currently prominent D's --- Biden, Kerry, Clinton, Reid, among them --- who supported the blunder.
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Old 01-04-2014, 10:37 AM
 
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This letter to Bush sums it up so well! Thanks Hyperthetic!

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Today, Iraq remains a country (roughly the size and population of Texas) you destroyed, a country where over a million Iraqis, including many children and infants (remember Fallujah?) lost their lives, millions more were sickened or injured, and millions more were forced to become refugees, including most of the Iraqi Christians. Iraq is a country rife with sectarian strife that your prolonged invasion provoked into what is now open warfare. Iraq is a country where al-Qaeda is spreading with explosions taking 20, 30, 40, 50 or 60 lives per day. Just this week, it was reported that the U.S. has sent Hellfire air-to-ground missiles to Iraq’s air force to be used against encampments of “the country’s branch of al-Qaeda.” There was no al-Qaeda in Iraq before your invasion. Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein were mortal enemies.
'The Country You Destroyed': A Letter to George W. Bush
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Old 01-04-2014, 10:39 AM
 
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So ?

To party loyalists like you, that absolves the D's of any responsibility. You revere a passel of currently prominent D's --- Biden, Kerry, Clinton, Reid, among them --- who supported the blunder.
Question: Can America go to war without the president's executive decision?

You must be real ashamed of the Iraq war because instead of boasting about it and taking credit for it, you are trying to blame it entirely on the democrats.
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Old 01-04-2014, 10:41 AM
 
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I wonder if the Bush Library will be adding the latest current events articles to their archives.
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Old 01-04-2014, 10:42 AM
 
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I wonder if the Bush Library will be adding the latest current events articles to their archives.
I wonder if the Bush library will make reference to the Iraq war at all!
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Old 01-04-2014, 10:44 AM
 
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So ?

To party loyalists like you, that absolves the D's of any responsibility. You revere a passel of currently prominent D's --- Biden, Kerry, Clinton, Reid, among them --- who supported the blunder.
"See how she struts; she’s swelling with pride
She came, she saw, he died.
He once gave refuge to the PLO,
But he couldn’t find his own place to hide.
We came, we saw, he died.
Our valkyrie was on her ride:
We came, we saw, he died.
We came, we saw, he died.

Hansel and Gretel; Dorothy, too;
She’s on her broom and she’s coming for you.
Mu-am-mar Gad-da-fi
You can’t run from the Hillary.

The people’s will we say he defied,
Now you tell me when we’ve ever lied.
We came, we saw, he died.
There may be few tricks that we haven’t tried,
But—would you believe?—we’ve never lied.
We came, we saw, he died.
Like the Tsarnaev brothers, he couldn’t hide.
We came, we saw, he died.
We came, we saw, he died."

We Came We Saw He Died | B'Man's Revolt
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Old 01-04-2014, 10:45 AM
 
Location: Long Island
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This letter to Bush sums it up so well! Thanks Hyperthetic!

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Today, Iraq remains a country (roughly the size and population of Texas) you destroyed, a country where over a million Iraqis, including many children and infants (remember Fallujah?) lost their lives, millions more were sickened or injured, and millions more were forced to become refugees, including most of the Iraqi Christians. Iraq is a country rife with sectarian strife that your prolonged invasion provoked into what is now open warfare. Iraq is a country where al-Qaeda is spreading with explosions taking 20, 30, 40, 50 or 60 lives per day. Just this week, it was reported that the U.S. has sent Hellfire air-to-ground missiles to Iraq’s air force to be used against encampments of “the country’s branch of al-Qaeda.” There was no al-Qaeda in Iraq before your invasion. Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein were mortal enemies.
'The Country You Destroyed': A Letter to George W. Bush
why are you posting lies

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US State Department
November 4, 1998

Bin Laden, Atef Indicted in U.S. Federal Court for African Bombings

New York -- Usama bin Laden and Muhammad Atef were indicted November 4 in Manhattan federal court for the August 7 bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and for conspiring to kill Americans outside the United States.

Bin Laden's "al Qaeda" organization functioned both on its own and through other terrorist organizations, including the Al Jihad group based in Egypt, the Islamic Group also known as el Gamaa Islamia led at one time by Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, and a number of other jihad groups in countries such as Sudan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Somalia.

Bin Laden, the US Attorney charged, engaged in business transactions on behalf of Al Qaeda, including purchasing warehouses for storage of explosives, transporting weapons, and establishing a series of companies in Sudan to provide income to al Qaeda and as a cover for the procurement of explosives, weapons, and chemicals, and for the travel of operatives.

According to the indictment, bin Laden and al Qaeda forged alliances with the National Islamic Front in Sudan and with representatives of the Government of Iran and its associated terrorist group Hezballah with the goal of working together against their common enemies in the West, particularly the United States.

"In addition, al Qaeda reached an understanding with the Government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq," the indictment said.

Beginning in 1992, bin Laden allegedly issued through his "fatwah" committees a series of escalating "fatwahs" against the United States, certain military personnel, and, eventually in February 1998, a "fatwah" stating that Muslims should kill Americans -- including civilians -- anywhere in the world they can be found.
Iraq was helping and training alq
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Old 01-04-2014, 10:49 AM
 
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I wonder if the Bush library will make reference to the Iraq war at all!
Rachel Maddow had a very insightful story on the Bush Library shortly after it opened, and how the exhibit on Iraq is set up. Using sophisticated 3D imagery, its attempt to rewrite Iraq allows the visitor to choose three selections on what course to take after 9/11, including invading Iraq, keeping sanctions, and I believe the third choice is doing nothing. When you select "do nothing" in regards to invading Iraq, a 3D image of Andrew Card, one of Bush's senior lackey's/advisers appears and with raised eyebrows, shows a picture of surprise at your choice. He then goes on to whitewash the decision and make some speech that "the facts at the time supported....blah blah blah"....

I really want to visit this library to see how they have attempted to rewrite history.
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