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for all those bastards who want to go into Iraq. Remember this? (Original Post) hobbit709 Jun 2014 OP
great songWRITING heaven05 Jun 2014 #1
No they don't. None of them were there. WhoIsNumberNone Jun 2014 #2
History Repeats itself HoosierCowboy Jun 2014 #3
Here we go again . . . another_liberal Jun 2014 #4
+1 grahamhgreen Jun 2014 #5

WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
2. No they don't. None of them were there.
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 11:34 AM
Jun 2014

Last edited Fri Jun 20, 2014, 12:59 PM - Edit history (1)

I said almost from the get go that Iraq would turn out just like Vietnam, and now look- It's turning out just like Vietnam.

No sooner do we pull out than the corrupt government we put in place- which no one over there sees as legitimate- is on the verge of being overthrown by a new and improved insurgency. The army we trained, without our forces there to support them is fleeing, and at home the right wingers are blaming the liberals who opposed the war for the collapse.

The only difference this time around is that instead of going communist we're going to have another Islamic Republic to deal with. Nice going Neocons. If just one of you chickenhawk pieces of shit had had your ass in the grass when it was your time, maybe it wouldn't have come to this- or maybe we could have just stayed out of this whole mess in the first place.

HoosierCowboy

(561 posts)
3. History Repeats itself
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 11:43 AM
Jun 2014

A movie made in 1987 about William Walker, American Filibuster in Nicaragua
Start at 1:20:00



How much many more times do we have to see this before we "get it"?
 

another_liberal

(8,821 posts)
4. Here we go again . . .
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 06:42 PM
Jun 2014

I do not know if this country will ever learn, not as long as there are a few billion dollars left which our leaders can steal from us, our children and our grandchildren. They'll spend it all on trying to kill our "enemies."

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