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13. I never got over our acceptance of preemptive war.

Reply to indepat (Reply #12)

Mon Feb 4, 2013, 07:32 PM

Feb 2013

I'm still befuddled that more of an issue isn't made of it; no way should it be acceptable.

Particularly when the time was ripe for us to lead the world in alternative energy and sustainability. That, IMHO, was the biggest disaster of the GWB administration.

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Noam Chomsky: The Paranoia of the Superrich and Superpowerful [View all] xchrom Feb 2013 OP

The West lost it during the GW Bush years. Turbineguy Feb 2013 #1

The Old American Guard Is Fighting For Survival With The Blood Of America's Youth cantbeserious Feb 2013 #2

When they aren't actually fighting AGAINST American youth. Demeter Feb 2013 #4

K&R idwiyo Feb 2013 #3

k/r marmar Feb 2013 #5

AutoChomskyDURec KG Feb 2013 #6

It is a shame most Americans don't understand this. /nt think Feb 2013 #7

Thanks for the link . . . another_liberal Feb 2013 #10

What is more of a shame, imo, is Americans largely accepting a pre-emptive war indepat Feb 2013 #12

I never got over our acceptance of preemptive war. Blanks Feb 2013 #13

The biggest imo in a veritable plethora of disasters on all fronts indepat Feb 2013 #14

+1 freshwest Feb 2013 #16

The Spanish could've told us..... Mustellus Feb 2013 #8

Noam Chomsky . . . another_liberal Feb 2013 #9

Chomsky is a national treasure of brilliance! libtodeath Feb 2013 #11

American addiction to fantasy. The path we've been led down is well worn and always leads Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #15

Bush's Iraq War : The biggest money laundering scheme in history after the Third Reich. freshwest Feb 2013 #17

Odd, someone usually shows up by now to trash Chomsky. Comrade Grumpy Feb 2013 #18