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Enthusiast

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14. Oh, that's what it is.
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 08:28 PM
Jun 2014

We would be drinking beer (outside) in the 1980s and raising hell about politics. My repeated personal point of emphasis was that the Republicans, but both parties, were overstating the Soviet threat as an excuse for massive military spending.

If I could see that with zero intelligence at my disposal there is no way Saint Ronnie and the rest were not faking it.

And now they are so worried about having a viable enemy that we are engaged in creating one out of thin air by sending killer drones into sovereign nations. This is unprecedented in all of human history. We are sending explosive laden aircraft into countries that are not at war with the US. This is an act of war in itself. Someone is growing very wealthy from building this hardware.

The CIA is not that cute. [View all] truebluegreen Jun 2014 OP
Cute like withholding JFK assassination records and obstructing justice for 50 years. Octafish Jun 2014 #1
Yup. truebluegreen Jun 2014 #2
CIA has set back Democracy around the world and at home. Octafish Jun 2014 #3
It wasn't really a surprise truebluegreen Jun 2014 #5
Oops--I see kpete already posted this truebluegreen Jun 2014 #4
Humor, from the Ministry of Truth. DeSwiss Jun 2014 #6
+1 truebluegreen Jun 2014 #7
Once the CIA started down the junta path they could not stop. Enthusiast Jun 2014 #8
IMO they were "out of bounds" almost from the beginning... truebluegreen Jun 2014 #9
Harry S Truman's CIA Op-Ed MinM Jun 2014 #10
+100 Thanks for the links. truebluegreen Jun 2014 #13
The internal weakness of the Soviet Union was a story Enthusiast Jun 2014 #11
It is the never-ending story isn't it? truebluegreen Jun 2014 #12
Oh, that's what it is. Enthusiast Jun 2014 #14
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