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cherokeeprogressive

(24,853 posts)
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 11:22 PM Feb 2016

One said "Mission accomplished" with a smirk. The other said "We came. We saw. He died" and laughed.

One is universally trashed and ridiculed, and rightly so.

The other gets a pass from her supporters.

One, in his arrogance and naivete, ruined a country and caused the deaths of untold numbers of people. That country had done the United States no harm.

The other thought killing the leader of a country which had done the United States no harm was good foreign policy, causing it to become a failed state which people are fleeing in record numbers, causing a worldwide refugee crisis.

Pick the foreign policy expert.

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One said "Mission accomplished" with a smirk. The other said "We came. We saw. He died" and laughed. (Original Post) cherokeeprogressive Feb 2016 OP
K&R..... daleanime Feb 2016 #1
...And here are the results... Bohemianwriter Feb 2016 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author guyton Feb 2016 #3
1988 Lordquinton Feb 2016 #8
The levity with which they approach mass death Fairgo Feb 2016 #4
She did not laugh at the murder of Ghaddafi nichomachus Feb 2016 #5
K & R AzDar Feb 2016 #6
K&R passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #7
Bernie just this morning condemned the sexist vitriol. But many of his supporters don't care. pnwmom Feb 2016 #11
No problem passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #12
one wonders why sanders keeps voting to spend more money on endless wars, doesnt one nt msongs Feb 2016 #9
He votes to spend much less than HRC does. Ken Burch Feb 2016 #16
self-delete pnwmom Feb 2016 #10
That wasn't about Bin Laden passiveporcupine Feb 2016 #13
Thanks pnwmom Feb 2016 #14
So what was Bernie's comment at the time? Blue_Tires Feb 2016 #15

Response to cherokeeprogressive (Original post)

Fairgo

(1,571 posts)
4. The levity with which they approach mass death
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 12:20 AM
Feb 2016

....the banal shopping of a new catch phrase, the studied smirk and flicking of imaginary dust from one's shoulder - these prepackaged tropes reveal an obsession with superficial image and a pop culture appropriation of history.

Veni, vidi, vici indeed. Less Julius Ceasar, more Arthur Fonzarelli.

passiveporcupine

(8,175 posts)
7. K&R
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 01:33 AM
Feb 2016

Enough with the cackle stuff guys. That is so petty and beneath us. Focus on what is really important, like this OP.

pnwmom

(108,977 posts)
11. Bernie just this morning condemned the sexist vitriol. But many of his supporters don't care.
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 02:15 AM
Feb 2016

They're having too much fun spouting off.

Thank you for speaking up.

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