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7. The televised, twitterized

Fri Feb 20, 2015, 08:49 PM

Feb 2015

Beheadings , etc, are just current day WMD. I don't mean they're not actually doing that to people. I mean the media hype to justify the war.

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Charles P Pierce- Drums Along The Potomac: How This Country Never Learns Anything [View all] n2doc Feb 2015 OP

Honestly, we should just keep doing what we're doing--slowly halting ISIS, TwilightGardener Feb 2015 #1

The televised, twitterized marym625 Feb 2015 #7

They know that the American people don't want to see ground troops TwilightGardener Feb 2015 #27

amen to that! marym625 Feb 2015 #2

You should check this out n2doc Feb 2015 #5

Institute the draft with ZERO deferments... randys1 Feb 2015 #3

^^^ what he said 4_TN_TITANS Feb 2015 #4

Agreed. People love war because they don't know what it is. (nt) enough Feb 2015 #11

+! - Been saying that for years! n/t markpkessinger Feb 2015 #10

If it's important enough to send combat forces, it's important enough KingCharlemagne Feb 2015 #19

Doktor Goebbels would be so proud of his successors hifiguy Feb 2015 #6

ain't they though marym625 Feb 2015 #8

Totally stupicidal and ignorantly arrogant. TheKentuckian Feb 2015 #9

Maybe the MSM can,,, Cryptoad Feb 2015 #12

All I can say is K&R mountain grammy Feb 2015 #13

+1 BrotherIvan Feb 2015 #14

But ISIS is ASKING for it. Octafish Feb 2015 #15

K&R. Paladin Feb 2015 #16

Or maybe it really is a different world today. randome Feb 2015 #17

"Chris Matthews is suiting up again." Paladin Feb 2015 #18

Ship of fools on a cruel sea. eom JEB Feb 2015 #20

Sigh. Please don't tell me I'm going to have to spend another 8 years of KingCharlemagne Feb 2015 #21

It's all the same war what we protested was legs of it and since the legs TheKentuckian Feb 2015 #22

Thanks for that uplifting message! :) - nt KingCharlemagne Feb 2015 #23

Declare war, start the draft, raise taxes gwheezie Feb 2015 #26

K&R Solly Mack Feb 2015 #28

We don't learn from our mistakes, we learn mistakes... alterfurz Feb 2015 #29