More relevant in 2008 than in 1995
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THE_Tetsuo — 14 years ago(January 11, 2012 06:45 AM)
Bill Clinton also made some very foolish mistakes during his second term as President during the mid and late 90's, such as his mishandling of Osama Bin-Laden and his then emerging terrorist group Al-Qeada
The same President who was praised by Republicans for focusing on bin Laden before 9/11 while many Republican lawmakers were busying themselves to details of his sex life? The same President who had the '93 WTC bombing hijackers arrested, tried and convicted within 14 months of the incident?
Bill Clinton was one of the greatest counterterrorism Presidents of all time. 9/11 was the fault of Bush politicizing national security to the point where his administration ignored Richard Clarke's warnings and Dubya spending almost half his first 8 months in office on vacation.
Clinton recognized the threat of bin Laden long before right-wing hacks like you every could have conceived of the damage that nut envisioned and people like Bush were busy approaching the Presidency as if they never left the frathouse.
"This year I'm voting Republican. The Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth."
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Fargo_North — 14 years ago(January 13, 2012 08:58 PM)
I really love your use of Monica Lewinsky's quote as your signature. In the context of this discussion in particular, your usage of this quote says a great deal about your credibility.
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solex10 — 13 years ago(January 30, 2013 08:51 PM)
Where did you get that bullroar from? OBL was Reagan's & Bush Sr's mistake and he was handled under their administrations, not Clinton's. The blowback just happened when it did, to Bush Jr. And nobody has 'selective memories' about this; it's most likely that
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geralyns — 16 years ago(January 13, 2010 05:19 PM)
Yeah, we need more faked wars like WW 2. Only 70 million civilians killed in a war that would have gone on much longer or ended with Hitler, Tojo, Stalin, Musslini holding world power, but America at war is evil, isn't it. It just ended slavery, communism, nazism in the right hands.
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flowerchild413 — 14 years ago(June 02, 2011 04:50 PM)
And how did the US end WW2? By nuking the hell out of Japan. America, as you call it, was the first country to ever use the atomic bomb and not just one, but two, better safe than sorry, right? as a weapon of war. And also the only, so far. And now that we've gotten to play with it we don't want anyone else to because God Forbid someone, like those "crazy terrorists", would use it on us. Like we did on the Japanese at the end of your precious WW2, killing countless innocent people and scarring survivors for life. But that's ok, all those lives don't matter, right? America saved the world, and the Japanese have no right to be mad, huh? They had it coming, they were at war with America the free! America the mighty!
You're right. Your version is nicer. It's like a nice beddy-by story and also the average Hollywood rom-com : you need to be a bit naive or else maybe ignorant to stomach it.
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graeshadowe-24-676603 — 14 years ago(January 01, 2012 01:23 PM)
Quote: "And how did the US end WW2? By nuking the hell out of Japan"
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electrictroy — 15 years ago(September 04, 2010 04:54 PM)
"Take the Mexican-American War, 1846, America's most blatant act of imperialist aggression, fought for land that Mexico had already offered to sell">>>
Not even close to accurate. The Mexican government was overthrown by a General, who claimed to be the new president, and then tried to reclaim Texas through force. The US was acting in self-defense.
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DrakeStraw — 15 years ago(October 21, 2010 12:30 AM)
If you think Obama is any different from W Bush, you haven't investigated their policies
Their policies are similar because they answer to the same bosses among the billionaires of the world who control both the Republicans and Democrats. Obama is an anti-colonialist and hates the fact that we are in Iraq and Afghanistan. He can't pull us out because he isn't the one who ultimately calls the shots.
Drake
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geralyns — 16 years ago(January 13, 2010 05:15 PM)
It's even more relevant in 2010. Obama does the exact same thing, following the same timetables that Bush did, in Iraq. Sends 30,000 more troops to Afhganistan and wins the Nobel Peace Prize! Does the President in Canadian Bacon win a Nobel Peace Prize?
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roell29 — 10 years ago(June 23, 2015 07:02 AM)
Now that Russia has grown stronger and more independent over the last decade, the US finally has their most valued enemy back. Funniest scene in the movie was the US Joint Chief literally tackling the Russian premiere in a last ditch effort to antagonize him and the Russian calling him a "sore winner". The US has done everything it can think of to turn Russia into an enemy in past couple of years yet Putin still refers to the US as their "friends and partners". It must really burn the war mongers up! Stunningly prescient.
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zootie — 10 years ago(March 14, 2016 06:50 AM)
From the first line "
God bless America again
". And picking up surplus military supplies (like many police departments). And that is just in the first 4 minutes.
We all know that
The more things change, the more they stay the same
, but this is a bit too much. I dig it up because I want a laugh, but this is too depressingly close to reality.