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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
2. I did't see it, but there might be some truth in that statement...
Sun Apr 9, 2017, 04:25 PM
Apr 2017

warmongers and the like love this stuff. I have heard people say as well as politicians that the president is showing strength and he is being presidential when he ordered the attacks.

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
3. When Desert Storm got under way, I saw an awful lot of my coworkers get very excited
Sun Apr 9, 2017, 04:26 PM
Apr 2017

every time we bombed something.

We certainly don't want to think it's true, but, in fact, it is.

mn9driver

(4,436 posts)
4. Perhaps they meant to say that American news media get excited
Sun Apr 9, 2017, 04:31 PM
Apr 2017

That seems to be a very predictable pattern.

doc03

(35,512 posts)
6. There is nothing Americans like better than a nice clean little
Sun Apr 9, 2017, 04:32 PM
Apr 2017

bombing. That is until the body bags start coming home then they lose their taste for it.

 

The_Casual_Observer

(27,742 posts)
7. Why not try and finish the wars that have already started before starting another one?
Sun Apr 9, 2017, 04:34 PM
Apr 2017

How many more of these bullshit regime change deals are we going to have to endure?

Warpy

(111,556 posts)
8. This kind of war puffery is one of the major reasons I turned them off
Sun Apr 9, 2017, 04:38 PM
Apr 2017

for the last time in 2004. I hate these blow dried bobblehead bastards who are so delighted with something to fill empty air time that they bafflegab endlessly about things they could have disposed of with a single sentence and treat a bad decision to use tens of millions of dollars of arms to make potholes in a runway as the reinvention of sliced bread.

Assholes!

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