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They Guy That They Framed Is Coincidentally Dead SoCalMusicLover Aug 2016 #1
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One lone man prevented Bush/Cheney from becoming dictators. Warpy Aug 2016 #3
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I remember a time when trust was a vital element of public service. Baitball Blogger Aug 2016 #4
 

SoCalMusicLover

(3,194 posts)
1. They Guy That They Framed Is Coincidentally Dead
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 03:53 PM
Aug 2016

There's clearly nothing to see.

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Warpy

(114,614 posts)
3. One lone man prevented Bush/Cheney from becoming dictators.
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 04:22 PM
Aug 2016

That man was Senator James Jeffords, of Vermont. Senator Jeffords had defected from the GOP shortly before this and had declared himself as an independent, throwing control of the Senate to Democrats.

The GOP House had obediently shut down. The Senate refused to do so, the Democrats prevailing.

Many people think the anthrax was a coup attempt. I'm not one of them, I think it was probably their original justification for war against Iraq and they'd just forgotten to shut it down completely in the confusion after 9/11. As it was, we did come perilously close to dictatorship with one branch of the government shut down completely.

But yes, it was an inside job, the strain of fully weaponized anthrax quickly traced to Ft. Detrick's biowarfare lab. Then it hit a CIA stone wall.

Response to Warpy (Reply #3)

Baitball Blogger

(52,343 posts)
4. I remember a time when trust was a vital element of public service.
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 04:44 PM
Aug 2016

Now, the guy who gets up there to spread lies gets the promotion.

I don't know why this continues, since the truth eventually comes out and trust is gone forever.

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