It’s pretty much common knowledge that our interventions in Iraq cost not only American lives but thousands more Iraqi lives, resulted in broken families, permanent handicaps and so much useless suffering….on the pretext that Saddam was harboring WMD, a lie. It did create, however, nice little gangs of Al Qaeda where there were none and did it with a bare-bone coalition.
Today, we are fighting ISIL, a truly warranted cause, with a genuine coalition of 60 countries, oops, minus the UAE, which has just chickened out.
And if anyone has a doubt, they are spreading like gang-green not only in Iraq and Syria, but everywhere they can get a foothold.
Check out these nice little groups in North and Sub-Saharan Africa, just for starters : ANSAR DINE, ANSAR AL CHARIA, AQMI and ALMOURABITOUNE, just for starters.
I am saddened by what Brian Williams did. I like Nightly News because it is a news program and does not have all of the entertainment the local news does. Perhaps the ratings pressures caused him to push too hard. He was still there in a helicopter not far behind the one that got shot at. I think he does a good job for us. It is unfortunate he screwed up.
Mikefive, not only does Brian have years of good work, those others getting thrown down the toilet by the wingers anxious to put Glenn Beck or Chuck Todd at the desk, have made Brian and all true journalists quadraplegics…
What he did was totally wrong, and apologized for. Beck, Rush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, never apologize for their multitude of lies and defamations (not only the troops). That would be “weak”.
Many Democrats have their hand in the till as well as their spouses, examine Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi. Chicken hawk Dems voted en masse for the Iraq war authorization.
Unfortunately, there are no supplements capable of enlarging your pea brain.
Yep, you have the Republicn party’s number all right Pea. My 25 years of active duty service and deployments, including a year in Baghdad don’t count. Apparently to you I’m just a war-monger chicken-hawk..Just more of you “I never insult anyone, I just explain the truth…” There are none so blind as those who will not see.
“Can’t refute the message so attack the messenger. So typical. What does that say about you?”.It’d say that he’s modeling his approach after YOU, if it were true.
Furthermore, getting the opinion of American military personnel "during the war’, is paramount to converting Christians to Christianity. I was referring to lies before the war.Why did the rest of the world not follow GB, Australia and Poland (194 strong!)?Major reasons were that there was wide-held belief that there were no WMD, that the IAEA should have continued their inspections, that invading Iraq would worsen the situation (64 percent of pre-war American opinion), and that the UNMOVIC report was being ignored.
Paris Girl: Powell has stated that the worst moment of his entire career was the lies he told in that U.N. speech, and even he had been lied to by Feith, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Perle, and others.
veronique auzon engel about 9 years ago
It’s pretty much common knowledge that our interventions in Iraq cost not only American lives but thousands more Iraqi lives, resulted in broken families, permanent handicaps and so much useless suffering….on the pretext that Saddam was harboring WMD, a lie. It did create, however, nice little gangs of Al Qaeda where there were none and did it with a bare-bone coalition.
Today, we are fighting ISIL, a truly warranted cause, with a genuine coalition of 60 countries, oops, minus the UAE, which has just chickened out.
And if anyone has a doubt, they are spreading like gang-green not only in Iraq and Syria, but everywhere they can get a foothold.
Check out these nice little groups in North and Sub-Saharan Africa, just for starters : ANSAR DINE, ANSAR AL CHARIA, AQMI and ALMOURABITOUNE, just for starters.
This is one we have to win.
Theodore E. Lind Premium Member about 9 years ago
I am saddened by what Brian Williams did. I like Nightly News because it is a news program and does not have all of the entertainment the local news does. Perhaps the ratings pressures caused him to push too hard. He was still there in a helicopter not far behind the one that got shot at. I think he does a good job for us. It is unfortunate he screwed up.
David Riedel Premium Member about 9 years ago
He looks like Romney, no?
Dtroutma about 9 years ago
Mikefive, not only does Brian have years of good work, those others getting thrown down the toilet by the wingers anxious to put Glenn Beck or Chuck Todd at the desk, have made Brian and all true journalists quadraplegics…
What he did was totally wrong, and apologized for. Beck, Rush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, never apologize for their multitude of lies and defamations (not only the troops). That would be “weak”.
phdtogo about 9 years ago
Many Democrats have their hand in the till as well as their spouses, examine Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi. Chicken hawk Dems voted en masse for the Iraq war authorization.
Unfortunately, there are no supplements capable of enlarging your pea brain.
Dtroutma about 9 years ago
Lynne Cheney on the board at Lockheed when all those government contracts were being expanded?
Anweir88 about 9 years ago
Yep, you have the Republicn party’s number all right Pea. My 25 years of active duty service and deployments, including a year in Baghdad don’t count. Apparently to you I’m just a war-monger chicken-hawk..Just more of you “I never insult anyone, I just explain the truth…” There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Anweir88 about 9 years ago
“Can’t refute the message so attack the messenger. So typical. What does that say about you?”.It’d say that he’s modeling his approach after YOU, if it were true.
veronique auzon engel about 9 years ago
Furthermore, getting the opinion of American military personnel "during the war’, is paramount to converting Christians to Christianity. I was referring to lies before the war.Why did the rest of the world not follow GB, Australia and Poland (194 strong!)?Major reasons were that there was wide-held belief that there were no WMD, that the IAEA should have continued their inspections, that invading Iraq would worsen the situation (64 percent of pre-war American opinion), and that the UNMOVIC report was being ignored.
Dtroutma about 9 years ago
Paris Girl: Powell has stated that the worst moment of his entire career was the lies he told in that U.N. speech, and even he had been lied to by Feith, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Perle, and others.