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cyclonefence

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5. Well, the msm were vocal enough

Reply to still_one (Reply #3)

Wed Jan 18, 2017, 10:47 AM

Jan 2017

for me, a middle-class housewife in the suburbs, to know that multiple expeditions to Iraq by multiple agencies had found no reason to believe Iraq had WMDs, and if I knew it, why didn't Hillary Clinton and Colin Powell know it? I don't read Mother Jones; I do read the Philadelphia Inquirer. I listen to news on NPR, and at that time I didn't watch news on TV. I was, I think, an average, middle-of-the-road consumer of normal news, and I knew it.

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