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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 06:45 AM Original message |
Surprised by Iraqi Freedom? Must have missed Panama "Just Cause" 1989. |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 06:54 AM Response to Original message |
1. 'just cuz we feel like it,' many of us joked.... |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 07:38 AM Response to Original message |
2. Don't you just love those catchy names? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 02:33 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Maybe that's why Cheney has heart disease -- from all that swelling. |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 03:19 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Iraqi Freedom |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 03:22 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I lost myself a friend by pointing that out during the invasion. |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 04:07 PM Response to Reply #10 |
20. Some times it takes a while to find out who your real friends are. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 05:13 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. That's very true. |
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Time for change (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 08:47 AM Response to Original message |
3. The failure of our news media to tell the truth about the wars that we create |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 02:32 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. I think the time invested in watchng this film is well spent |
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Veritas_et_Aequitas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 08:50 AM Response to Original message |
4. I have a friend who lived through the invasion. |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 09:14 AM Response to Original message |
5. Poppy Bush wanted to silence his CIA Drug Partner Manuel Noriega |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 02:30 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Is there any RW dictator - stooge for the BFEE that WASN'T laundering drug money |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
11. K&R Thanks for posting. Can't believe how many times I've referred people to the 80s... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 03:29 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I've never studied propaganda but it seems to me that one of the ways |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 03:34 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Well, propaganda does embody the strategic framing of info to support one specific viewpoint... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 03:37 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Right -- something like rebranding. But it also seems to have an element |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 04:01 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Sure. And I agree. If the incident is too big to "disappear," the propaganda effort will be enormous |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
15. "The World's Mightiest Military" protecting us from....uh...something. |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 04:02 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. A damn fine post, that |
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bleever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
17. I remember how it was touted as a "clean" victory. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 04:07 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. I never knew that this happened. Bought the official story, hook line and sinker. |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
21. We were so completely fooled, misled about G.H.W. Bush's attack on Panamanians. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 04:17 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. I only saw it for the first time last night. |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
22. Yep Yep |
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