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In reply to the discussion: So, yeah...remember that whole Iraq war thing? Remember all the refugees flooding into Syria? [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)57. Well probably not.
I mean, I''m not sure that we can be blamed for this, if it indeed happened. But those of us who ave been around the block a few times are understandably dubious - Gulf of Tonkin, Weapons of Mass Destruction and all that. Kuwaiti babies thrown out of their incubators by the ever nasty Iraqi soldiers, and how that turned out to be a "fib."
And then there is the overwhelming notion that maybe as a nation, we are not the best nation to come forward and say, Shame on you!
After all, Assad did not give the orders for My Lai, or Abu Gharib. Nor did he lie a nation of three hundred million people into our attack on Iraq.
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So, yeah...remember that whole Iraq war thing? Remember all the refugees flooding into Syria? [View all]
WilliamPitt
Aug 2013
OP
I hope you don't mind hearing how good you are when you are on a topic you are familiar with.
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2013
#9
I consoled myself for quite a while that Bush was irrelevant and had slid into the dustbin
Autumn
Aug 2013
#10
Those poor dogs (the yellow ones) look like their heads are deformed by skull tumors.
kestrel91316
Aug 2013
#15
They weren't bothered as Christians in Iraq before we invaded. Sadaam's Amb to US was Christian
kelliekat44
Aug 2013
#30
And Syrians have been pouring into both Jordan and Egypt since 2012. I met
sinkingfeeling
Aug 2013
#43
Will, leave it to you to look at history and unintended consequences and stuff
suffragette
Aug 2013
#47