why doesn't anybody acknowwledge the fact that our country has spent 300 trillion dollars on a war founded on lies? where is the justice?
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Escape goats? Even if you don't agree on the war, illegal immigration has nothing to do with it. It appears that you have no problem wanting to help Mexicans, but you don't want to have nothing to do with the liberation of 25 million Iraqi's from the hands of a brutal dictator? I also say your cost estimate is a TAD high...\n\nPS - It's "scape goat", not escape.
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Stop being so ignorant and GET OVER IT. \n\nHe lied?  Tell that to the tens of thousands of people that were gassed and killed by Saddam.\n\nHe didn't help New Orleans because he was on vacation?  This comment is wrong on SO many levels: (1)When is the President EVER on vacation!  (2) I guess the local and state governments were on vacation as well.  (3)  I live in Florida and we were hit by SEVERAL hurricanes last year.  My family does not sit around waiting for the President to rescue us.  We help ourselves!\n\nBush let thousands of innocent americans die on 9/11 because he was reading to school children?  I suppose he could have called Batman, Superman, and Captain America.  They could have stopped all three planes...
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You start with a falsehood that carries on throughout. But that's the leftist way, isn't it? Lie, lie, lie, and lie some more - because there are plenty of useful idiots who will believe you.\n\nThere were numerous reasons for the invasion of Iraq - their failure to have proven they destroyed their caches of WMD was just one of many reasons.\n\nSo, are you just gullibly stupid or are you a weasel manipulative lying sack of manure? Why would you lie to your son?
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Review that name one more time:  "truthseek".  It doesn't say "truthknower".  I am seeking the truth.  why aren't you?  We would be much better off if everyone sought the truth.  you are too full of hate for liberals or anyone who disagrees with you.\n\nIs your life really that boring???\n****************************************\nto paraphrase a conservative intellect, you might consider the following:  "...sometimes the truth is just outside the realm of understanding and you have to set aside your beliefs and ideas to see that truth..."  ah, you see, you already know how to find the truth.  Do as YOU say and set aside your belief and ideas.  Be patient grasshopper, it will come to you.
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Americans can't seem to have an intelligent debate anymore. Our media-obsessed culture cuts everything up into 10 second sound-bytes. The easiest way to brainwash someone is to repeat the same phrase over and over. Every speech our president gives includes some reference to 9/11. How often have we heard things like "freedom is on the march", or "they hate us for our freedoms"?\n\n      “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” - Joseph Goebbels
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The war was based on a lie.  So we got rid of Saddam.  Does this mean we have to overthrow every other dictator who abuses his own people too?  I think not.  There are some angry, angry people here who, like their Republican leaders, hate to hear the truth.  Listen to the bonehead who thinks all liberals should be shot and be afraid.  This is the kind of person who avidly supports the brain-dead George Bush and all he stands for.  Given the chance, these nuts will destroy our country.  God help us.
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bravo...its nothing compared to the damage these lying scum have done to our country so don't pay any attention to those who rebuke you. If they had the  chance they would have done it to a democrate.\n\n  And don't pay attention to the one who said 'your just madd because Bush won the election." He didn't win it , he stole it! Besides the Republicans have been robbing this country blind and sending our sons and daughters to die in a war based on false  and fabricated intellignce . not to mention that we are fighting this war for Israel and not Ameica. the whole lot of republicans are thieves and liars and deserve wordse than what you have dished out to them. Ahhhh perhaps some day they will get theirs. Maybe they won't control the house for another 40 years and never can because everytime they do they screw everything up and run the country in finacial ruin. They start wars using fabricated evidence and lie to the public continually.\n\n  In the days of old these same scoundrals would have been chased down and hung by angry mobs. Republicans are shameful ignorant people who only result to lies and deception toward the people they are supposed to represent. I was a Republican but Bush and his cartel have made me ashamed of these bunch of liars, decievers and destructors of our consitution and the American way. \n\n perhaps maybe some day we can see all these scoundrels get what they deserve for lying and pilaging our country!\n\n Hey! What you did is a start anyways .
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When it's "their" guy, he's a monster that we should shame.\n\nWhen it "our" guy, he's only human and we should forgive.\n\nJust how it always works, sadly.\n\nAnd John, Haggard also lied at first, said it didn't happen.  And he continues to lie when he says he hired him for a "massage" and that he threw the drugs away.\n\nTo MyEvilTwin....at what point has Rumsfeld or GW apologized or bowed out now that they have been busted for lying to the American public about invading Iraq?  See, I could care less if people lie about their sexual practices especially in the current environment.  But lying about the reasons to bomb a soverign nation that leads to the deaths of thousands of soldiers and civilians?  That I care about.\n\nWhen Clinton lied, no one died.  I know, bumper sticker but doesn't it say it so very well?
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Fascinating. Thank you for bringing this up. It is a war crime. The whole of our involvement in Iraq then and now is full of war crimes. \n\nSeems there are no limits to the ugliness of our war. No wonder we are so despised.  \n\nThis is historic, our research with the A bomb was similar in nature; talk about opening Pandora's box...another result of fiddling with the atom. Some stuff should just be left alone.\n\nThe military has a history of testing horrible equipment and macabre medical treatments on soldiers as well as civilian populations. Just another day in the pentagon.
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THE AMERICAN PEOPLE PAYING FOR HIS WAR\nHAVE NO RIGHT VOICE THEIR OPINION ON HIS WAR.\n\nITS THE REPUGLICANS WAR\nMAKE THEM PAY FOR IT!!!
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What is the source of your "facts" on which these allegations are made? How has poverty/wealth killed billions?
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First, let's agree on two indisputable facts:\n1. The US Government has a constitutional duty of the defense of the country.\n2. It has no constitutional authority to take public monies for charitable spending.\n\nHow much is too much? That's a good question. What is our role in the world, and what should our role be? \n\nShould we have a military that can offer protection to threatened and invaded people around the world, or to hell with all of them, as the rest of the world feels?\n\nBut, if you're not spending it on the military, why should it be pissed away on useless, unconstitutional programs that never work?
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it is worse than a huge mistake. it is a war crime. bush/rove/cheney (the real axis of evil) should be tried as war criminals for their actions in iraq and afghanistan.
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You raise the big question that is never answered.  The big boys make decisions for us all, based on what and for whom?  We are naively raised to believe that they are serving us, but we all are savvy enough now to realize that the story we were told is not often true at all.  Whether it is Iraq or Afghanistan, Katrina, education, our borders, whatever, we find that there is a huge difference from what we expect  and what actually happens.  We all suspect, for whatever reason, that things are not on the level, and that our interests are being sold down the river.  Some of us think it is minor, some of us think it is treason.  What we get are phony explanations with the truth obscured for generations, all to protect us.  Whether it is JFK's assassination, the 9/11 investigation where the important chapter is not released, the true story of why there was no help for our citizens after Katrina and no insurance for their losses, we find we don't get the true story.  You can bet we will not get it now while we invade countries that have not attacked us, all under the guise of going after the perpetrators of 9/11.  What is Cheney doing talking to the Saudi Prince?  We would all like to know.
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The official total for the Iraq war will cross $500B this year, and the unofficial total with all of the hidden war costs is probably over $1T.\n\nSad, but true.  This was one major boo boo.  The war in Iraq has greatly lowered our international integrity, taken the wind out of the sails of any future threat of military action, bankrupted the US, divided our country, and destroyed the lives and livelihood of 10M Iraqi's.  Oh- and the lives of nearly 3,000 american soldiers (and many more seriously wounded).\n\nyes- it could have done a lot of good in this country.  Instead- we spent it destroying another's.
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No bub\n\nIt is a huge crime to lie under oath (since YOU brought up Clinton). It is known as perjury.\n\nWar is not murdering innocents. In war you kill your enemies, you defeat them. In war, there is also no way to protect every non-combatant. There is no "perfect" war where only soldiers will be involved. And even with there being no possibility of a "perfect war", it does not mean that we should never wage war. We should wage war when necessary. And when it came down to attacking Afghanistan, and re-opening the hostilities in Iraq because of the documented cease-fire violations from the cease-fire agreement from Gulf War I (Desert Storm), the war was J-U-S-T-I-F-I-E-D
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Who the hell knows, but we do need to do something.  This war is not working out the way we expected.  We have spent 1/2 trillion and we are making enemies faster than we can kill them.