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Proud Liberal Dem

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76. I was dumbfounded how many politicos went along with it

Mon May 12, 2014, 11:05 AM

May 2014

I could have told them it didn't make sense without even having any access to half their information. Of course, many of them felt like they had to go along with it politically back then- in the wake of 9/11/01. I have always thought that the first obvious (at least to me) sign that Iraq wasn't a growing menace should've been the recognition that they had virtually no control over its own airspace. The second obvious place it should have ended was the UN Weapons Inspectors being unable to find anything.

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Jake Tapper to GOP Congressman: Why Didn�t Republicans Care This Much About 4,500 Deaths in Iraq? [View all] babylonsister May 2014 OP

The genocide in Iraq is the doing of the GOP. Dawson Leery May 2014 #1

One could say genocide is all republicans are good for randys1 May 2014 #2

Yeah Plucketeer May 2014 #32

Maybe we could interest them in some Kool-Aid FiveGoodMen May 2014 #41

Nah Plucketeer May 2014 #42

! FiveGoodMen May 2014 #43

Can't stand Tapper, but it's a good question. KittyWampus May 2014 #3

911 911 911 billhicks76 May 2014 #15

Worse than that, they got promotions... Wounded Bear May 2014 #28

Think about that for a second. AleksS May 2014 #30

She sucked at that, too... Wounded Bear May 2014 #31

Logical To Promote billhicks76 May 2014 #48

And yet our Rice got the shaft over something waaaaay more trivial Proud Liberal Dem May 2014 #77

Promoted To Shut Up billhicks76 May 2014 #83

I wonder why the press and DC Dems are afraid to go there when it's so obvious. yurbud May 2014 #81

Two Reasons billhicks76 May 2014 #84

I think 9/11 is far enough in the past now that the public could handle the truth yurbud May 2014 #85

They Always Could billhicks76 May 2014 #86

He also should have asked Politicalboi May 2014 #4

yes, why has no one shoved that in their hopemountain May 2014 #53

I'm actually quite shocked to hear this. It's something I ask multiple times every day! calimary May 2014 #61

Wow, that's a shocker. onecaliberal May 2014 #5

Nah! Plucketeer May 2014 #33

The next question should be think May 2014 #6

Though I am not happy we lost American lives, republicans is not interested in trying to Thinkingabout May 2014 #7

I agree completely. onecaliberal May 2014 #45

Welcome to DU, onecaliberal! calimary May 2014 #62

Thank you! onecaliberal May 2014 #65

Tapper should have kept asking it until the fool answered the question. mountain grammy May 2014 #8

Whoa... K&R Firebrand Gary May 2014 #9

video wheniwasincongress May 2014 #10

They didn't care about Katrina and don't care about West Virginia either. nt valerief May 2014 #11

Whoa, excellent question. Very rare to see that among tv "news people" these days quinnox May 2014 #12

Jake Tapper said that? Snotcicles May 2014 #13

I have a headache. Boomerproud May 2014 #14

Rep. Trey Gowdy. Ikonoklast May 2014 #22

Jake!!! Ya trying to be a journalist or something?! Cha May 2014 #16

He's lapsing? nt Snotcicles May 2014 #18

Thank you Jake! markmyword May 2014 #47

almost fell out of my chair when i read this hopemountain May 2014 #54

Really, hope.. I think we all remember some past Jake episodes Cha May 2014 #57

Bush was never held accountable ... napkinz May 2014 #17

Your choir preachin, you'll never reach your goal. nt Snotcicles May 2014 #19

ummmm ... what is my goal? napkinz May 2014 #21

The CIA wrote that Gowdy has some facts wrong. Gowdy has joined the Circus! DhhD May 2014 #20

WAAAH! LIBRUL MEDIA BIAS! nxylas May 2014 #23

Or when the president did nothing when told America was under attack... KansDem May 2014 #24

where was the outrage in 2001 on THAT 9/11? ... napkinz May 2014 #37

Great collection! Thanks! CrispyQ May 2014 #38

thanks ... many more at ---> napkinz May 2014 #69

What. The. Hell. Tapper, is that you? nt MaeScott May 2014 #25

Yep libodem May 2014 #26

Exactly. 1,800 Amercians died in their own city on American soil as we watched on TV. nt SunSeeker May 2014 #64

They skated libodem May 2014 #67

A reporter asked a tough question of a republican? liberal N proud May 2014 #27

K&R Blue Owl May 2014 #29

Hows about... Plucketeer May 2014 #34

Everything Republicans do these days smallcat88 May 2014 #35

GOPers hate FEMA and hate anything that helps the American people Iliyah May 2014 #36

The media is catching on Gothmog May 2014 #39

Obviously yellowwoodII May 2014 #40

Gowdy did not answer? 3catwoman3 May 2014 #44

Maybe he wants to avoid being another Chuckie Todd.. Vietnameravet May 2014 #46

Who Hired Them? markmyword May 2014 #50

i can only imagine how the iraq wounded must feel about this spanone May 2014 #49

Was this the ONION??? JoePhilly May 2014 #51

Hear, hear!!!! Beacool May 2014 #52

K&R'd. snot May 2014 #55

Ask about BEIRUT. GO AFTER ST.RONNIE. "Iraq" offers the "but..other countries...intelligence..." WinkyDink May 2014 #56

I tried that with a Republican at the State Fair a few years ago. He got a really confused look xocet May 2014 #66

Republicans are like sulphurdunn May 2014 #58

Gowdy is a Hypocrite. cynzke May 2014 #59

"Shockingly, tosh May 2014 #60

*crickets* TeamPooka May 2014 #63

it wasn't "incorrect" intelligence, it was LIES yurbud May 2014 #68

The intelligence was so twisted and manipulated with Iraq Proud Liberal Dem May 2014 #73

yep. And even so, no politician old enough to remember the Cold War should have fallen for it yurbud May 2014 #75

I was dumbfounded how many politicos went along with it Proud Liberal Dem May 2014 #76

with NONE of the intel, you could figure out Iraq was no threat to us. yurbud May 2014 #78

When I thought of countries that were threatening back then (and now) Proud Liberal Dem May 2014 #79

even North Korea is at worst playing chicken. It is also telling how we react to them compared to yurbud May 2014 #80

Ringleader of the Circus: Gowdy doxydad May 2014 #70

Because they don't actually respect the soldiers..... AverageJoe90 May 2014 #71

Not to diminish their deaths Proud Liberal Dem May 2014 #72

And of course Iraq involved massive, deliberate lies. DirkGently May 2014 #74

Without the blowjob... IkeRepublican May 2014 #82