Posted on 03/05/2019 1:54:20 PM PST by yoe
What “retaliation”?
George Bush did Iran a great favor by invading Iraq and taking out their No 1 enemy
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, home of the 911 culprits, got off Scott free. Some “retaliation”
Nothing this Dimwit says surprises me.
The Bronx and Queens. I doubt it.
The premise of this article is dishonest. We didn’t retaliate for 911. Instead we overturned Saddam, who had no connection to 911. Iran loves us for taking out their enemy, and now Iraq is their closest ally
I love this woman ...
When she was still in diapers ?
I don’t agree with her point of view but a third choice was always available, there was what actually transpired, or no retaliation, but also a completely different menu of retaliatory measures against actual perpetrators.
Instead, with the exception of Afghanistan, almost all of our joint western policy since 2001 in the Middle East has been counter-productive and against our own best interests.
Saudi Arabia was never punished yet it was more responsible than the Taliban even, for the atrocities of 9-11. Iraq was invaded and occupied at great cost for no real gain and no purpose other than to fulfill the vengeance of the Bush family against Saddam. This was their squabble and had nothing much to do with 9-11 or any other terrorism. Syria and Libya were declared enemies even though what replaced them or tried to in the case of Syria was far worse than what we had. Libya had become a reliable partner and no threat to the west at all. Syria was only doing what any western country would have done in similar circumstances.
There is still time to fix all this up, but we will never get back the wasted treasure (especially in terms of lives) that was expended under the cover of vengeance for 9-11. And there has not been a lot of actual retaliation against the real perps of those attacks. We are asked to believe that Osama bin Laden is dead. But the Saudi government continues to thrive and do business with the west. There should have been at least an unmistakeable display of our resolve to show the Saudis that encouragement for such actions would cost them a lot. Maybe an overthrow of their dynasty would have been a step too far, but we did almost nothing and so they must have drawn the conclusion that if the time comes when they want to repeat this sponsorship, it won’t cost them much to do so.
Fox News interviewed some of her voters a while back, they were your typical commie idiots, I doubt they have buyers remorse, they probably are sitting back cheering her on and would vote for her again
To be fair, the US first attacked the Taliban in Afghanistan who harbored Osama. Iraq war came a year later.
Let her keep talking. She is making an ass of herself daily. Soon the people will become so tired of her crap, that they will stop listening. Then the news will not think it is so important to quote her. She will eventually die back into mediocrity.
“The WOT should have begun with the nuking of Mecca”
Actually, the US should have deployed paratroops to Mecca and ground up the Kabah (The big black stone that Muslims walk around and pray to during the hajj.) After grinding it up they should have used it as agragate for a concrete statue of Elvis Presely and then stood it back up. Then the Hadji could really worship the king!
On a more serious note I blame the Byzantine Emperor Justianian (It may have been his son) for Islam’s spread. After he recaptured Palestine from the Sansids he was approached by representatives of Mohammed who demanded he convert or else. Some of his advisors wanted him to wage a campaign into the Sinai and exterminate the early Muslims but he didn’t. If he had listened to his advisors the world would be a better place.
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AOC and her COS diverted $1 million dollars in campaign contributions to her own pocket .....
The FEC complaint asserts that AOC's COS, Saikat Chakrabarti established two PACs that raised big bucks for AOC's campaign:
<><> the Brand New Congress PAC, and,
<><> Justice Democrats PAC.
Then Chakrabarti systematically transferred $885,000+ in PAC contributions to his private companies with similar names:
<><> the Brand New Campaign LLC, and,
<><> the Brand New Congress LLC --
Saikat Chakrabarti's private companies, unlike PACs, are exempt from reporting all of their significant expenditures.
ANALYSIS --- Chakrabarti's companies appear to have been set up for the sole purpose of obscuring how the political donations were used. The arrangement skirted reporting requirements and may have violated the $5,000 limit on contributions from federal PACs to candidates, according to the complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group. Campaign finance attorneys described the arrangement as “really weird” and an indication "there’s something amiss." They said there was no way of telling where the political donations went — meaning they could have been pocketed or used by the company to pay for off-the-books campaign operations.---SNIP---SOURCED FROM FR.
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BACKSTORY Oh, wait.....AOC's COS, Saikat Chakrabarti, is a tech wiz.
(A) He co-founded a web design tool, and then (B) built up the product team at the payment processor Stripe.........
(C) he then came to the Sanders campaign after (cough) growing disillusioned with the tech world.
So...... Chakrabarti's tech skills musta come in mighty handy when donations to Bernie were wire-transferred to the DNC
and ended up in Hillary's account. Debbie W/S headed the DNC at the time and was ousted b/c of her bias for Hillary.
<><> Chakrabarti did find out about the tech theft, didnt he?
<><> Chakrabarti did speak to D/W/S about it, didnt he?
<><> Chakrabarti did tell Bernie about it, didnt he?
<><> Chakrabarti WAS working for Bernie, wasnt he?
I’m sure that she would have voted to replace the airplanes they lost at the WTC.
WOT was a "war" on what exactly? We could have declared war on Taliban, Al Qaeda,Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Hell for arguments sake Iraq but we didn't. I do know the Constitution was declared war on as we see today and we imported millions of Islamic sympathizers (enough to put two Congress idiots in Congress) since 9/11. WTH thought the WOT would still be going on and those not born on 9/11 will soon fight WOT? BTW, AOC can go FOAD.
she would have voted to replace the airplanes they lost at the WTC.
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You’re onto something. But she wouldn’t approve of planes.
Her terrorist anti-American brothers should have taken trains!! Ruin a newsstand, a hair stylist’s place and a restroom entrance at ground level.
Think of it as the general sentiment of our current typical millennials.
AOC but a reflection.
The one big question remains for Sanders, AOC and the voters who brought them inside with the garbage:
Whose side are you on?
Wrong side = treason or traitor and all that stuff.
Bush figured that the Iraqis were the most westernized bunch in the ME, and if we would just throw them a life line they would jump at the chance to build a real democracy. We sure know better now, don’t we?
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