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tomp

(9,512 posts)
15. really?
Sun Sep 3, 2017, 07:09 AM
Sep 2017

bush senior "relatively OK"? he was the engineer of the hostage release delay as well as the cocaine/latin america connection, and lied us into the first iraq war withe the "incubator babies" stories.

that's just one problem with the "summation."

another big problem is that it ignores Democratic Party involvement in much of the same history. The dems have seldom seen a war or a military funding bill they didn't like.

also bill clinton (with the help of Hillary) directly took up the right's policies on "law and order" and mass incarceration of minorities (among other things).

it also ignores that Johnson and Kennedy were known to have manipulated election results. Who knows about others?

generally, quite a shallow summation of the period.

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