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highplainsdem

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19. Good luck trying to convince the electorate that high casualties in a war are comparable
Fri Feb 21, 2020, 06:08 PM
Feb 2020

to concentration camps and gas chambers used for the coldblooded murder of several million people.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

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That article doesn't tell us what he was specifically talking about. Cuthbert Allgood Feb 2020 #1
Bingo. polichick Feb 2020 #9
This. n/t ms liberty Feb 2020 #30
This is complicated. I don't think anyone in 2020 is going to argue in favor of the US in the SweetieD Feb 2020 #2
Plenty of boomers believe we would have won nobuddy Feb 2020 #10
Most DEMOCRATIC boomers would completely disagree with you karynnj Feb 2020 #27
almost... 5X Feb 2020 #3
And you consider that comparable to the Holocaust? highplainsdem Feb 2020 #7
Yup. My Lai. Agent Orange, the gift that keeps on giving the Vietnamese birth defects TO abqtommy Feb 2020 #13
So I guess you'd think that our firebombing Dresden and dropping atomic bombs on Japan highplainsdem Feb 2020 #15
Dresden should never have happened...it was to make a point, that's obscene...so yes. nt essme Feb 2020 #18
I guess you like to change the subject. Different war, different enemy. That's what I think. abqtommy Feb 2020 #22
of course not. 5X Feb 2020 #14
Read the history of the American War in Vietnam from the perspective of Vietnamese Cal Carpenter Feb 2020 #4
Well Trump and the GOP will NEVER bring that one up! Kingofalldems Feb 2020 #5
Especially in ads aimed at veterans. highplainsdem Feb 2020 #12
Very few can come close to 'almost as bad as Hilter'? And sorry but the USA, warts and all ain't UniteFightBack Feb 2020 #6
Kick this one. Kingofalldems Feb 2020 #8
And? nobuddy Feb 2020 #11
"Almost" is almost right. BBC "Industrial-scale slaughter" essme Feb 2020 #16
Good luck trying to convince the electorate that high casualties in a war are comparable highplainsdem Feb 2020 #19
The gas chambers are the one thing that set the Nazi's apart. That's for sure. essme Feb 2020 #20
What Sanders said is disqualifying for a presidential candidate. And I ran the comment past highplainsdem Feb 2020 #21
Mike will get it done. denem Feb 2020 #17
lol BeckyDem Feb 2020 #23
Rutland (Vt.) Daily Herald, October 19, 1972: dalton99a Feb 2020 #24
So Sanders thought McGovern "had made too many concessions to be supported." Sanders helped highplainsdem Feb 2020 #25
I have a lot of worries about a Sanders candidacy JFlash Feb 2020 #26
Well, it was pretty damn bad. polichick Feb 2020 #28
I had a social studies teacher in the 7th grade (1969) explain what was really happening in Vietnam. OAITW r.2.0 Feb 2020 #29
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