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In reply to the discussion: NEVER FORGET [View all]RevStPatrick
(2,208 posts)11. I assumed at the time that these people had receipts...
I knew the Iraq War was bullshit, just like the first one.
However, I assumed they would find something, because I assumed they had sales receipts.
Let's put it this way... Poppy learned well from Prescott and Sam and the Walkers... Sell your enemy the arms and then destroy them with the arms you've sold to yourself. Viola! Double profits!
I admit I was a bit surprised when they found absolutely nothing.
I expected that these people had been busy during the Clinton years selling Saddam arms under the table, and that they would find something that they had provided him. They weren't even smart enough to pull that off...
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Yep, been beating those war drums for years. We refuse to remove ourselves from
mountain grammy
Feb 2013
#42
Dreamer. "They" belong to the elite. The President and most of Congress also belong
rhett o rick
Feb 2013
#44
I like this idea... Do we include the corporations and the inside trading wealth too?
midnight
Feb 2013
#65
The one thing I will remember most: Colin Powell's "proof" of "mobile weapons labs"
GoCubsGo
Feb 2013
#24
Thank you for compiling this total act of criminality. These people should be in prison for treason.
judesedit
Feb 2013
#35
Maybe you dont understand. Their children were raised with the elite whose shit dont stink.
rhett o rick
Feb 2013
#45
I have not forgotten the complicity of the Democrats, as well as the lies of the Bush gang.
Raksha
Feb 2013
#51
Ari Fleischer is clearly the stupidest person to ever rise to a high level White House position.
grantcart
Feb 2013
#39
Iraq War I, my son was serving on the USS Wisconsin in the Persian Gulf
mountain grammy
Feb 2013
#43
I knew we were being lied to when bushcheneyrumsfield kept insisting that Saddam
Sinistrous
Feb 2013
#47