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Opinion: Trump’s North Korea Fear Mongering Is Bush Iraq Déjà Vu
Trump and North Korea is an eerily frightening reiteration of the Bush administration’s fear-mongering about Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
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Trump Repeats Bogus Claim That Captain Khan Would Still Be Alive If He Were President
Again, Donald Trump was not opposed to the war in Iraq.
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Rudy Giuliani’s Appalling Claim That ‘Anything is Legal’ During a War
“Of course it’s legal. It’s a war. Until the war is over, anything is legal.”
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Trump Insanely Blames Hillary Clinton for Middle East Wars
“Hillary’s wars in the Middle East have unleashed destruction, terrorism and ISIS across the world.”
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John McCain Embraces Sarah Palin’s Stupidity and Blame Obama Dysfunction
These reckless, insulting comments have become commonplace for McCain because he cares more about shifting blame than keeping Americans safe.
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British Government Says in Iraq War it was a Victim of Poor Planning from Washington
The British government’s Iraq Inquiry finds that “the timing of military action was driven entirely by the US administration.”
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Bush Created ISIS – Not Hillary Rodham Clinton
Bush’s response to 9/11 played directly into Osama bin Laden’s hands and provided a recruiting tool groups like ISIS could not exist without
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Here’s How the RNC Lies When it Says Democrats Can’t Be Trusted to Keep us Safe
The RNC would have you believe only Republicans can keep you safe, but the facts dating back to 2001 show the opposite to be true
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Make No Mistake About It, George W Bush’s Iraq War Has Spread To France
It is incredibly ironic that the one American ally that vehemently protested and condemned Bush’s invasion and occupation of Iraq has now felt the horrific results of terrorists created by Bush’s folly in attacking and slaughtering hundreds-of-thousands of innocent Muslims, and creating the Islamic State.
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Republicans Try To Rewrite History And Blame Obama And Hillary For Creating ISIS
The Islamic State grew out of Al Qaeda in Iraq, and of course, Al Qaeda was not IN Iraq until after Bush’s invasion, making Santorum a liar
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Republicans In Congress Still Dishonor America’s Veterans
Republicans have about as much use for America’s veterans as they do America’s poor, women, people of color and the elderly
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Trump’s Honest Criticism of George W. Bush Exposes GOP Foreign Policy Incompetence
Trump is shining a light on exactly what Americans have to look forward to if they elect a Republican president; foreign policy incompetence
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Never Forget That Republicans Used 9/11 To Start Two Middle East Wars
The Bush administration used a terror attack on American soil to rack up a $6 trillion debt for two wars and are now plotting another one
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Peace Warrior Bernie Sanders Storms The Senate And Calls Out GOP Warmongers
While announcing his support for the Iran nuclear agreement, Sen. Sanders (I-VT) called out the Republicans who wrong about Iraq and now oppose the Iran deal.
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Americans Still Pay Dearly For George W. Bush’s Crusade Against Islam
The mainstream media is not reporting the continuing cost of military action against an extremist organization created by George W. Bush
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440 Rabbis Now Urge Congress to Support Iran Nuclear Deal
The pressure on Congress continues to mount as 340 Rabbis have become 440, and only the gang who gave us the Iraq War support an Iran War.
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Donald Trump Agrees: Jeb! is Stupid on Iraq War
Donald Trump calls Jeb Bush’s “skin in the game” comments “one of the dumbest statements” he’s ever heard, and says Jeb should apologize
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Jeb! Goes All Stupid on Iraq with ‘Skin in the Game’ Comments
Bush decides to self-destruct on the Iraq War by saying it was a “good deal” and that America needs to show Iraq it has “skin in the game”
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Self-Proclaimed Champion of Veterans Jeb Bush, Supported Switfboating John Kerry
Jeb Bush said yesterday in response to Donald Trump’s attack on John McCain that all veterans are deserving of respect: Enough with the slanderous attacks. @SenJohnMcCain and all our veterans – particularly POWs have earned our respect and admiration. — Jeb Bush (@JebBush) July 18, 2015 As Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Jay Bookman then pointedly asked,…
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Paul Krugman Is Right The Iraq War Was A Bush Crime
Having a discussion will not change the disastrous consequences of Bush and company’s crimes, bring back the three-quarters of a million dead Iraqi civilians or thousands of American soldiers, it may inform Americans of the intent of Republicans defending the invasion and occupation.
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Louie Gohmert Says Iraq War a Mistake. Because Obama
As Jeb has reminded us, Dubya is our problem, not his. Or Gohmert’s. Or the Republican Party’s, it seems
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Lindsey Graham Blames President Obama For The Mess That He Helped Cause In Iraq
South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham insisted on Monday that the Iraq War was not a mistake.
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Jeb Bush Flip-Flops And Finally Decides That The Iraq War Was A Bad Idea
On Thursday, Bush finally relented and joined others in the GOP field in admitting that the Iraq War was a mistake.
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Rand Paul Prefers to Let the Refugees We Created in Iraq Suffer and Die
The invasion of Iraq and its bungled aftermath created millions of refugees. Rand Paul doesn’t think the United States owes them anything
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George W. Bush Reminds Americans Why He Was a Failure and An Idiot
It is true, George W. Bush is hapless, but he is also an idiot for not recognizing his own failures as president and in fact actually regards himself as a raging success.
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Why We Can’t Let Jeb Bush Pretend His Brother’s Wars Never Happened
Jeb doesn’t realize how critical it is he convince us he is not his brother, because the more you listen to him, the more alike they sound
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Conservative Logic: Because Iraq Was a Just War, Sniper Chris Kyle Must be a Hero
But of course, Iraq was not a just war; far from it, it was a criminal enterprise from start to finish
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Critics of American Sniper Chris Kyle Threatened with Violence and Rape Fantasies
‘It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don’t regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn’t save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I’m not naive, and I don’t romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about…
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Republican Comparisons of Iraq and Vietnam Are Completely False and Hypocritical
If the Republicans win the White House in 2016, any new troop commitment to Iraq would be celebrated by Fox News rather than condemned.
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Obama Sends 1500 Advisers to Iraq – Fox News Freaks Out
As President Obama sends 1500 troops to Iraq to advise, train, and assist, Fox News sees only a broken promise and troops on the ground
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President Obama Talks Strategy with Anti-ISIL Coalition
President Obama pointed to the ideological component and to the economic conditions which contribute to ISIL’s recruitment of young men from across the region
America Must Stay Out of Islam’s Sectarian War
No American should delude themselves that the current violence raging in Iraq and Syria is anything other than an extreme sectarian war between the two major Islamic sects, or that American military intervention is ever going to bring a cessation to the violence.
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For Republicans ISIL is Only an Excuse to Attack Our President
The suspicion that Republicans are far more horrified by a black president than Islamic terrorists is borne out by the rhetoric
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Obama Is Right Let Iraq Deal With ISIS As a Sovereign Nation
President Obama is right; Iraq can secure their own country’s future” and “fight for their own country” against ISIS.
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Why Republicans Want America To Forget 9/11
It is unlikely any American over the age of three or four will forget 911, but it is highly likely the majority of Americans will forget the long-lasting devastation an incompetent Republican administration’s response wrought on the nation.
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Megyn Kelly Uses Bush’s Defense of Iraq Surge to Blame Obama for ISIL
All Megyn Kelly had to do is re-write history, ignoring the fact that Bush followed up his warning by signing SOFA, agreeing to withdraw US troops from Iraq
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ISIS: George W. Bush’s Legacy or America’s Spawn?
There is a well-known phrase in the Christian bible that “you reap what you sow.” America is now reaping what it sowed by invading innocent Muslim nations and brutalizing innocent civilians for well over a decade.
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Republicans Fearmonger Over ISIS to Distract From Their Ineptitude
What is curious, is that Republicans are campaigning against President Obama who is not running for any political office, but since they cannot run on their records in Congress, they are using conditions in Iraq to frighten Americans into supporting the GOP.
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Warmongering Neocon Bill Kristol Gets Raked Over The Coals Regarding His Iraq Stance
During Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Bill Kristol was absolutely destroyed over his opinion that the United States needs to deploy thousands of troops to Iraq and re-engage in a combat mission.
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Bernie Sanders Tees Off On Dick Cheney and Vows To Adamantly Oppose Any New War In Iraq
Sen. Bernie Sanders sent a message to Dick Cheney and the other Republicans who are calling for war with Iraq. On MSNBC, Sanders warned the warmongers that he will adamantly oppose any attempts to send ground troops into Iraq.
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The Neocon Iraqi Lie the Mainstream Media Won’t Let Die
The sad truth is that Iraq is in the shape it is today in because of what the US has already done. How, we must ask ourselves now, is doing it again going to undo it?
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The Media Embarrasses Itself by Treating the Lying Bush Bumblers Like Iraq War Experts
America’s mainstream media is as apt to repeat failures as conservatives likely due to the symbiotic relationship between corporate media and the conservative movement.
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Republicans Blame Obama For Iraq When It Was Bush Who Signed The Agreement to Leave
What any of the Republicans blaming Obama for pulling American troops out of Iraq in 2011 should remember, is that in October 2008 George W. Bush was president when the Status of Forces Agreement was drafted and ratified by Iraqi lawmakers a month later in November 2008.
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George W. Bush’s Head Cheerleader For The Iraq War Forgets What Year The War Started
Ari Fleischer, the White House Press Secretary under President George W. Bush during the early years of the Iraq War. took to Twitter on Friday to help conservatives pin the blame on Obama for the recent surge of violence in Iraq.
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John McCain Predictably Blames Obama For Iraq Violence And Calls For Widespread Firings
During an interview on Morning Joe Friday morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) predictably placed the recent flare-up of ethnic violence in Iraq at the President’s feet.
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Republicans Lose Their Minds Over the Fact That the War in Afghanistan is Ending
The reaction from three Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee to the President’s announcement that America’s longest war was coming to an end was despicable and revealed that, in their minds, there is never a time to end war.
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Change You Can Believe In: Obama and Hollande Destroy the War Monger Model
Anti-WMD alert: In a joint OpEd Monday, President Obama and President Hollande wrote about how their deepening partnership offers a model for international cooperation.
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Stephen Colbert Brilliantly Mocks The Neo-Con Fascination With Neverending War
On Monday night’s episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert brilliantly took down conservatives’s positions on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Fox News Insults Veterans On The Air By Claiming Obamacare is Worse Than The Iraq War
Fox News managed to insult and demean our nation’s veterans today by claiming that Obamacare is worse than the Iraq War.
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Remember 9/11 and Never Forget What George W. Bush’s Incompetence Did to America
As the nation remembers the American lives lost at the hands of a terrorist gang, they should take stock of the damage that an incompetent Bush administration caused this country.
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GOP Rep. Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma Calls Obama Unfit and Biden Embarrassing
On Monday, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.), forgot not only President Bush but his fellow ethically-challenged House Republicans, and excoriated President Barack Obama from the House floor.
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Ted Nugent Was Too Cowardly to Serve But He Blames Obama For Veterans’ Suicides
A coward leveled blame on President Obama for the plight of Veterans who survived the perils of war only to give up and end their own lives at home.
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The Iraq Invasion Could Be a Worse Foreign Policy Decision than the Vietnam War
This month, an article argued the Iraq War was the single worst foreign policy decision in US history. This may be more than just hyperbole.
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Republicans Won’t Fund Roads or Schools But Funded Two Wars to Benefit the Rich
Most Americans do not object to debt when they receive something in return such as road or schools, but a great deal of America’s debt is for wars that only benefit the military industrial complex.
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Speaking of Hubris, This is the Reason Why Republicans Hate Chuck Hagel
The real reason why Republicans hate Chuck Hagel is that he was one of the few elected officials on either side of the aisle who had the courage and conviction to speak his mind on the Iraq invasion.
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When It Comes to War Mitt Romney is George W. Bush With Magic Underwear
If Willard Romney controls the world’s most powerful military will repeat the Iraq and Afghanistan disasters because he is, after all, just George W. Bush with magic underwear.
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From Draft Dodging to War Mongering Mitt Romney is George W. Bush
If Romney were not a coward, he would campaign as Bush incarnate and promise voters to exceed Bush’s malfeasance and record of unprovoked war and economic destruction.
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John McCain’s Eternal War Against Gays At Home and American Soldiers Abroad
John McCain is a war hero, and advocates permanent wars regardless the cost in lives and drain on the economy. He also knows that allowing gays to serve in the military is wrong, regardless that a majority of Americans, the Pentagon, and service members support repealing DADT. McCain also doesn’t want an end to the war in Afghanistan because he has gross memory loss regarding the Iraq war.
Fox News Finds Hidden Messages in Obama’s Iraq Speech
On Fox and Friends this morning the panel claimed that President Obama’s Iraq speech contained hidden messages about a second stimulus and cap and trade, and that using the term “middle class” was a buzz word. Eric Bolling said, “We must jump start industries, sounds to me like stimulus, and end our dependence on foreign oil, sounds to me like cap and trade.”
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Earth, Wind and Oil: Big Energy Triumphs Over Democracy
With the BP oil spill still raging after a month of disinformation and stonewalling from both BP and the Obama Administration as well as the catastrophe of the Massey coal mine explosion just two weeks prior to the BP Gulf disaster, the left and right are playing their trite and expected “blame game” without acknowledging the actual systemic realities of a Government that enables BP and Massey to rape and plunder the earth for the sake of profit at the expense of the environment and human life.
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From Clinton to Obama: Reregulating the Deregulatory Era
Coming from what many would consider a “far Left” ideological foundation, my assertion is that this antagonism between the so-called “left” and “right” has been merely a smokescreen to divide us even further while the wealthy interests who actually dictate legislation—buying and manipulating politicians from both parties—continue to plunder our resources and bring our economy to the brink of collapse while we do nothing other than yell and scream at the other side.
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The WikiLeaks Video and Progressive Responsibility in Unnecessary Wars
I protested the Iraq war, way before it was cool to do so, and the Wikileaks Video of “Collateral Murder” demonstrates why I opposed the invasion, but I also spent a week embedded with training soldiers, as they took on the exhaustive task of preparing for battle. Those on the left who criticize miss the point as their self-righteous reaction is a simplistic denial of their own complicity in allowing this war to be fought.
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Karl Rove Wishes That Everyone Would Forget About His Crimes
Karl Rove was on Fox News last night discussing the recent incident where Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans tried to make a citizen’s arrest against him because of his crimes during the Bush administration at a California book signing event, but instead of addressing or apologizing for his crimes, Rove told Fox news that he just wishes people would forget about them.
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Obama: U.S. Combat Troops Out of Iraq by the End of August
In his remarks today about the successful completion of Iraq’s second ever national election, President Barack Obama said that there are now less than 100,000 troops in Iraq and he assured the Iraqi people that the United States will fulfill their obligation and have U.S. combat troops out of Iraq by the end of August. Obama said, “By the end of August, our combat mission will end.”
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Bill O’Reilly Compares Obama and Heathcare to George W. Bush and Iraq
On his FNC program The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly engaged in full blown fear mongering tonight as he compared President Obama’s attempts to pass healthcare reform with George W. Bush’s belief that Saddam Hussein was a threat to the United States. Only in the fractured realm of Fox News could a healthcare bill be equated with an unjust war that has killed thousands of people.
Official Army History Reveals How George W. Bush Ignored Afghanistan
This week The New York Times ran a draft of the soon to be published official Army history of the war in Afghanistan. The report complete contradicts the claims of neo-cons that they did not ignore Afghanistan while focusing on Iraq. The history details how the Bush administration ignored Afghanistan for Iraq.
Republicans Impose Their “Decider” Approach re Afghanistan Strategy
Republicans are insinuating that Obama’s “delay”, aka, seeking input from naysayers and congress before making a decision regarding strategy in Afghanistan, is indicative of weakness on Obama’s part. Apparently, Republicans have been suppressing Congressional War Powers and the Constitution for so long now that they just assume it’s a given that everyone does so, and failure to do so is smugly rebranded as “delay”.