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In reply to the discussion: My beef with drones is not the boogey-man "on US soil", it's Obama's Bush-Lite Doctrine [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)this is the same classic sleight of hand you are claiming others are making in your OP
People did not like IRAQ specific. Nothing more, nothing less.
It was fine by me and most others to get anyone connected with OBL and Afghanastan.
Nobody made a fuss
and I can bet 95% would have been happy if instead of Iraq Bush dropped a bunker busting bomb on OBL (though we all might have then wondered about dna proof).
But Iraq was the problem.
It NEVER was drones.
and, most people wondered at the time why Bush let OBL's family get away and not heavily interogated them, as they had or did not have direct links.
But they flew out the morning after, and it was never don.
So this statement is like 3 card monte.
It sounds good, but it was not the way it was back then.
IRAQ was the problem. NOT the war on terror. NOT the Patriot Act.
Just how Bush applied it.
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