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In reply to the discussion: Here We Go Again!!! "Islamic State militants pose 'biggest threat' to US" [View all]CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)50. Fair enough.
It's hard to tell where they get all these numbers from or how accurate they are.
I remember in the First World War On Terror the nebulous number of Al Qaeda operatives who managed to get away in the raid on Osama Bin Laden's supervillain underground fortress at Tora Bora...which of course turned out not to exist. And of course the endless #2s who were killed or captured. And the color-coded terror alerts. Not to mention Saddam's mobile chemical weapons labs.
So...I accept these ISIS guys are real but I also know that both they and our MSM are masters of deception.
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Here We Go Again!!! "Islamic State militants pose 'biggest threat' to US" [View all]
grahamhgreen
Aug 2014
OP
Thanks! It aint rocket science with these brainiacs... remember the Vulcans?
grahamhgreen
Aug 2014
#10
No, not following... You mean the chemical weapons Rumsfeld sold to Saddam, and then
grahamhgreen
Aug 2014
#9
And if we had not overthrown Iran's democracy, we might be great friends now n/t
arcane1
Aug 2014
#54
In this case, destabilizing the region by invading Iraq, and supporting Surian rebels, is one of the
grahamhgreen
Aug 2014
#61
The first step to recovery for this nation is to admit we have a problem. [n/t]
Maedhros
Aug 2014
#28
Of course...every Country has it's problems.....at least we don't behead people. nt
clarice
Aug 2014
#29
Why is beheading someone worse than blowing up children with Hellfire missiles?
Maedhros
Aug 2014
#30
Perhaps it is prejudice..but I wouldn't want to live anywhere but here. You ? nt
clarice
Aug 2014
#31
I wouldn't mind leaving the United States for a country that is less callously bloodthirsty.
Maedhros
Aug 2014
#32
It is amazing how clean the cities are in countries that are not run by their militarists.
grahamhgreen
Aug 2014
#66
In this case, the biggest instigator of violence on the region does happen to be the US, doesn't it?
grahamhgreen
Aug 2014
#62
According to reports, "the beheader" was from London? mask off the cowards face & expose him.
Sunlei
Aug 2014
#5
Pull the mask back even further, and you get John Macain, and Lindsay Graham.... and Prince Bandar:
grahamhgreen
Aug 2014
#6
McCain is such a prize, but imagine a world that doesnt use fossil fuels, wonder if we would
BaggersRDumb
Aug 2014
#53
That sums it up nicley! Rinse and repeat, and you get endless war for perpetual profit, weehee!
grahamhgreen
Aug 2014
#12
Not yet. But, after we sell them the 7th Fleet and 2ndMarDiv they will be.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Aug 2014
#20
We are responsible for torturing Iraqi's and Abu Ghraib. We are resposible for the war crimes of the
grahamhgreen
Aug 2014
#36
Well I don't think we will have any of those things happen, because Obama is not the BFEE.
Rex
Aug 2014
#51
"Isis can be contained pretty well with airstrikes." What makes you think that? I would submit
grahamhgreen
Aug 2014
#35
ISIS did not exist, and Al-Qaeda was not in Iraq before we got into it. Agreed?
grahamhgreen
Aug 2014
#58