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[thedude6752000 360]

I'm also free to wonder just what in the hell you're doing here in the first place, when you harbor such hatred toward it.

The only thing that this country is good for, making money. Rest assured that whenever I find a better opportunity over seas I'll drop it like the bad habit it is.

[Karee 4,191]

This thread is awesome!

[LibCampFireClub 635]

The only thing that this country is good for, making money. Rest assured that whenever I find a better opportunity over seas I'll drop it like the bad habit it is.

When you decide you've had enough and are ready to drop your bad habit, be sure to leave a post so we can all wish you good luck.

[Pooky 3,850]

It was a pointless exercise. The WMD claim was a lie. Iraq posed no significant threat to the USA or its neighbours.

Pointless exercise? Agreed

WMDs? Only if you discount the open secret that the majority went over the Syrian border.

Iraq posed no significant threat? Agreed

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

As you sit yourself in front of your Internet communications device slamming America, and those who gave their lives to make it a free nation, and the greatest on earth, you should remember one thing. This country you are free to stay, and where you are free to go. You are free to express your objections, and you are free to walk away. Within the borders of this nation, you have the strength of the US Constitution to stand behind you. I'm also free to wonder just what in the hell you're doing here in the first place, when you harbor such hatred toward it.

More often than not armchair patriots are fascists.

This from the same CIA that failed to predict the fall of the Soviet Union, despite doing nothing but obsessing over it (and using it as an excuse to crush democracy and butcher millions in Japan, Chile, Iran, Guatemala, El Salvador, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and myriad other countries).

"A commonly belief is that the United States Intelligence Community (IC)

failed to anticipate the collapse of the Soviet Union. Indeed, many of the

U.S. officials who received intelligence about the Soviet Union, its decline

in the late 1970s and 1980s, and its final crises in the 1989–1991 period,

believe to this day that they were not warned—that they were, in effect,

‘‘blindsided.’ "

http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/17/20080229.pdf

The fact that the CIA thought there were WMD's there just serves as more proof they never had them in the worst place. When it comes to gathering actual intelligence on America's enemies the CIA ought to be with Bush himself under a Google search for "miserable failure."

If it's anything like the intelligence that was bandied about in the UK, the fault was less with the intelligence agencies than with the government's predetermined agenda for war.

[thedude6752000 360]

More often than not armchair patriots are fascists.

If it's anything like the intelligence that was bandied about in the UK, the fault was less with the intelligence agencies than with the government's predetermined agenda for war.

Here in the US, the head of the CIA told Bush that WMD's in Iraq were a "slam dunk." The CIA as usual gave the intelligence that POTUS and the military-industrial complex wanted to hear.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/18/woodward.book/

[Pooky 3,850]

If it's anything like the intelligence that was bandied about in the UK, the fault was less with the intelligence agencies than with the government's predetermined agenda for war.

Tony Blair had a schoolboy crush on BushBaby.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

It's perfectly possible to love one's country and disagree with its foreign (and domestic, for that matter) policy. It's part of being a rational, intelligent citizen. To posit that because a citizen disagrees somehow makes them unworthy of living here seems positively un-American in philosophy to me.

[Pooky 3,850]

It's perfectly possible to love one's country and disagree with its foreign (and domestic, for that matter) policy. It's part of being a rational, intelligent citizen. To posit that because a citizen disagrees somehow makes them unworthy of living here seems positively un-American in philosophy to me.

So should generalising patriots as fascists.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

So should generalising patriots as fascists.

Oh boo hoo.

[Pooky 3,850]

Oh boo hoo.

Cry all you want. Your intolerance speaks louder than any words I might write.

[JohnR! 5,495]

So should generalising patriots as fascists.

Or even worse, calling all pattriots, communists...

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It's perfectly possible to love one's country and disagree with its foreign (and domestic, for that matter) policy. It's part of being a rational, intelligent citizen. To posit that because a citizen disagrees somehow makes them unworthy of living here seems positively un-American in philosophy to me.

Totally. It's a tired old mantra on here. Sick of it really - the only salute people like that deserve is the one finger variety

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Cry all you want. Your intolerance speaks louder than any words I might write.

Intolerance to what? Something you don't have the inclination or the guts to call out yourself?

[Pooky 3,850]

Intolerance to what? Something you don't have the inclination or the guts to call out yourself?

When it isn't true, then the person railing against it is the problem