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In reply to the discussion: From the beginning, I was against the Iraq War. Most people on this board probably share this view... [View all]Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)25. We are rapidly erasing the thin veneer of civilization we once claimed and exposing our barbarism.
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From the beginning, I was against the Iraq War. Most people on this board probably share this view... [View all]
WCGreen
Feb 2013
OP
Feb 15, 2003 - 100,000 people attended in Los Angeles. I heard Gore Vidal speak, among others. I do
coalition_unwilling
Feb 2013
#51
Chuck Hagel was for it, and people now claim he's Mr Peace and he's got to be in charge of war!
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2013
#75
k and r-- the whole world was against it, a lot of people in this country were against it (although
niyad
Feb 2013
#11
Even our children and grandchildren will be paying. Damn the 2000 stolen election & BUSH.
Auntie Bush
Feb 2013
#30
Polls right before March 20, 2003 showed the American public almost evenly split 50-50, not that
coalition_unwilling
Feb 2013
#52
Two big lies: Saddam Hussein had WMDs and Saddam Hussein was in cahoots with Al Quaida. Both
coalition_unwilling
Feb 2013
#54
OMG, the "secret documents" linking SH to AQ and Bin Laden? Bin Laden had issued a
coalition_unwilling
Feb 2013
#55
When BushCo decided preemptive war was okay, and all of our Senators agreed
justiceischeap
Feb 2013
#16
Fortunately, voting for an insane war has disqualified people from becoming Secretary of State
MannyGoldstein
Feb 2013
#17
Kept her out of the Presidency, at least as long as people remember. - n/t
coalition_unwilling
Feb 2013
#56
Anyone with two working brain cells, listening to the rhetoric of the bu$h administration, knew
RC
Feb 2013
#19
I had another DU profile then, but I was here, and there were Iraq war supporters on this board
alcibiades_mystery
Feb 2013
#22
We are rapidly erasing the thin veneer of civilization we once claimed and exposing our barbarism.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2013
#25
"America is the first country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual intervening
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2013
#40
Except that many maybe even most will just pretend the corpse is angelic perfection
TheKentuckian
Feb 2013
#43
IMO, The only purpose of the Iraq War was to give the Bush administration some central purpose ....
meti57b
Feb 2013
#31
I told everyone who would listen that if Bush II was given the presidency by the US Supreme Court...
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#39
Interesting that Leahy recently stood against filibuster reform. What does that suggest about
patrice
Feb 2013
#58
Though that is what this is about to you & me. There are others for whom it is ABOUT THE WHOLE
patrice
Feb 2013
#57
When we saw no prosecutions for torture and the absurdist "don't look back" reasoning,
grahamhgreen
Feb 2013
#59
The blow back started long time ago and continues today: in airports, in wiretaps, in drones...
Bucky
Feb 2013
#77
Not to mention that waging a 'War of Aggression' as Bush et al did is a WAR CRIME
on point
Feb 2013
#80