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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (142383)	3/9/2014 2:41:12 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

"people who are bound in poverty and dictatorship are going to lash out" at their dictators. Hungry, Czechoslovakia didn't lash out at US in '56; they lashed out against Russia. Tunisians lashed out against their leader, Libyans, Syrians, Iranians, et al, austerity-rioting Europeans.... they aren't lashing out against us. No, they really don't "Hate us for our freedoms". That's a RW lie. However, they do hate us cuz we blew the shit out of their family or town or co-religionists in another country, victims of Shrub's uh "crusade" (his words). "we were attacked"... by Saudi Arabians trained and financed in Afghanistan by a rich Saudi. Logically, we should have attacked the Saudis, not Iraq. However, them Saudis may be dictators, but they be our dictators. "the Freedom Agenda was a reasonable response to 9/11. " Actually, it wasn't.

To: i-node who wrote (142383)	3/9/2014 2:52:51 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Are you aware "of the fact" that the US had plans to move quickly to safeguard the oil installations instead of going after the capture of WMD's. If US troops rushed to the oilfields and not the WMDs that those WMDs (if they really existed) could have been used too fire on the US troops guarding the oil installations thereby destroying the oilfields (which the US feared and wanted to prevent) and at the same time killing US soldiers. But that was never an issue since Cheney and gang knew that there were no WMDs. Just follow the events on the ground and ask your own questions. Just follow the sequence of events. You don't have to read any books on opinions of others.