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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]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)75. Chuck Hagel was for it, and people now claim he's Mr Peace and he's got to be in charge of war!
Nation and world against it, Republicans for it.
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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