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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 05:36 PM Original message |
nbc nightly news....richard engel...iraq war wasn't worth it. soldiers are telling him this. |
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Maccagirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
1. As a sidebar |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 05:43 PM Response to Original message |
2. Oops... I unrec'd instead of rec'd. Sorry. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 06:05 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Made that up fer ya |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 07:05 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Thanks. |
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Swagman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 07:16 AM Response to Reply #2 |
21. didn't plenty of Democratics go along with the lies? |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 07:41 AM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Roughly half and half. |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:46 AM Response to Reply #21 |
31. Anyone who didn't go along with the lies was branded a traitor. |
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willhe (76 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 01:39 PM Response to Reply #21 |
45. dems are cowards |
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stevenleser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 06:15 PM Response to Reply #45 |
57. Less than half "went along with it" so, that's hardly an indictment of "the dems" nt |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
3. He is one of the few MSM reporters who covered the war well |
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LuckyLib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 01:49 PM Response to Reply #3 |
46. And an actual case of a modern day reporter who not only is fluent in Arabic, |
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slipslidingaway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 05:56 PM Response to Original message |
4. We were lied into going to war? There should be an investigation. n/t |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 06:57 AM Response to Reply #4 |
19. heh . . . . . . . . . n/t |
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pscot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:37 AM Response to Reply #4 |
29. We aren't supposed to look backward |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 12:47 PM Response to Reply #29 |
42. +1 nice turn of phrase to nail it. |
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sad sally (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 03:40 PM Response to Reply #29 |
53. Just what Sec of War Clinton said this a.m. |
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slipslidingaway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 06:38 PM Response to Reply #53 |
59. They cannot look back, too many Dems were complicit or stupid. n/t |
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slipslidingaway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 06:36 PM Response to Reply #29 |
58. Lol, always a great strategy! n/t |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 05:59 PM Response to Original message |
5. You think? n/t |
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frazzled (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
6. Richard, you're about 7 or 8 years late in revealing this |
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Old and In the Way (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 07:41 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Engel was a reporter first, I think. |
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Amonester (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 07:30 AM Response to Reply #6 |
23. NBC M$M is part of the 1% who profited and still profit from it. |
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AmirDal (37 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 09:30 AM Response to Reply #6 |
28. These reporters cannot speak the truth when wars are popular, even it they wanted. Editors & Owners |
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Chipper Chat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:51 AM Response to Reply #28 |
32. Of course. Engel wanted to keep his job! |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 01:03 PM Response to Reply #6 |
44. Richard was not the famous person he is today through most of the war. |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
7. Duh!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
9. The water is wet and the sun rises in the east. |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
12. Halliburton, Blackwater & Exxon Mobil would disagree |
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PatrynXX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 03:17 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. they'd be the reason we are being kicked out of the country |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
13. I wonder what would have made it worth it in their eyes? |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 10:38 PM Response to Original message |
14. Our soldiers?? What about the million dead Iraquis?? Maybe he should poll them nt |
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sibelian (543 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 02:55 PM Response to Reply #14 |
49. That would highlight a human experience that isn't American. |
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caseymoz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 11:28 PM Response to Original message |
15. So, the liberals were right, AGAIN. |
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colsohlibgal (670 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 11:29 PM Response to Original message |
16. What About The Stupendous Amounts Of Cash Missing? |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 06:57 AM Response to Reply #16 |
20. I know some local schools that could REALLY use a billion or two. . . .n/t |
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Swagman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 07:24 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. a billion ?..you mean a trillion don't you? |
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Muskypundit (417 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 01:10 AM Response to Original message |
17. You would think this would be said after the first 100,000 civilian dead mark |
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GoCubsGo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 07:56 AM Response to Original message |
25. I'm not surprised that they won't acknowledge the lie. |
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tularetom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 08:32 AM Response to Original message |
26. Depends on who you are |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 12:40 PM Response to Reply #26 |
40. Also worth it to the Kochs who bought Brownbackistan with the profits made off of Iran: |
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Crowman1979 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 08:50 AM Response to Original message |
27. Hell, I would have had a more obscenity-laced opinion about the Iraq war. |
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donquijoterocket (357 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 11:55 AM Response to Reply #27 |
35. I'm sure |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
30. "Toppling Saddam" wasn't worth it either. |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
33. So can we get our $2 trillion back? And who has it? |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 12:32 PM Response to Reply #33 |
39. It's buried in Crawford, TX. |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
34. How was Bush going to cowboy around |
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robbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
36. Up here in Canada |
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jimlup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
37. As if we live in some vague "democracy" |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
38. OF COURSE "IT" wasn't worth the deaths and destruction, FGS! we accomplished NOTHING of real value; |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
41. NO!!! (more) BLOOD!!!! FOR FUCKING!!!! OIL!! |
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swilton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 01:01 PM Response to Original message |
43. The people told them this in January - February 2003 |
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Hanks (29 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
47. When you think about it, |
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totodeinhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
48. Of course it wasn't worth it. We had an incompetent nincompoop in the White |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 02:58 PM Response to Reply #48 |
50. A nincompoop who made trillions for his cronies, himself |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
51. "Total bullshit, I disagree completely!" |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 07:30 PM Response to Reply #51 |
60. k&r... |
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Yon_Yonson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
52. It wasn't worth it .. I screamed that at the top of my lungs from the get-go! |
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sibelian (543 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
54. Wasn't "WORTH" it? |
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sad sally (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
55. Here's a good read from the journalist's point of view. |
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northoftheborder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 05:47 PM Response to Original message |
56. Richard Engel is a hero in my eyes. One of, if not the best journalist of our times. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
61. My Iraq Vet cousin could tell you that. |
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