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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-28-07 09:33 PM
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Let's stop sucking up to Bush the warmonger (UK: Daily Mail)
Peter Mckay
21:22pm 28th October 2007

Justified wars we absolutely have to fight are hard on military families, but the bleakest prospect of all is risking life and limb when the conflict in question seems increasingly pointless.

Both Iraq and Afghanistan now fall into this category. The only thing keeping us there is embarrassment and the lack of a face-saving excuse for getting out ...

Fighting wars is good politics in America. Bush, who was handed the 2000 election by the Supreme Court after losing it on the popular vote, won a convincing second-term victory in 2004 because he had taken America to war in Iraq by pretending Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11 ...

And remember: the war spending has gone largely to U.S. companies who are donors to Bush's Republican Party ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_article_id=490295&in_page_id=1772&in_author_id=227
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 08:29 AM
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1. ttt
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 09:15 AM
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2. K&R. One more puts this on Greatest, c'mon, Du'ers... nt
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 10:03 AM
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3. While It Would Have Been Better Not To Suck Up From The Beginning....
we'll take any assistance in removing this tick from our politics that we can get.
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