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U.S. talking to Chalabi, originator of WMD lies, while pushing to replace Iraqi leader Maliki
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025121565
Are you fucking kidding me??? We're doing this shit AGAIN???
So we weren't really finished with Iraq after all? And the goddamned NEOCONS are going to get their second chance?
Is this what you're telling me?
SMMFGDH!!!
msongs
(67,420 posts)cactusfractal
(496 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)dballance
(5,756 posts)I'm pretty sure the American people are not going to fall for this shit the second time around. Too many of them know veterans who were killed or maimed last time around.
The uproar to stay out of Syria was a good example of how we might have actually learned something in the last 10 years or so.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)and somewhere in hell, if hell exists, Sadam IS smiling.
Mr.Bill
(24,304 posts)That will get their attention. I dare them to start a draft.
In the words of Mario Savio, leader of the free speech movement at Berkeley in the 60s: We refuse to be part of the have your children for lunch program. Fuck 'em.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)johnnyreb
(915 posts)Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)Groundhog Day.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)They did not adequately discredit Chalabi the first time around.
CrispyQ
(36,479 posts)It's a seriously depressing read.
The nations collective ignorance paves the way for extremist politicians to validate their positions to the public.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/americans-are-dangerously-politically-ignorant-numbers-are-shocking?akid=11928.1084699.voxA4C&rd=1&src=newsletter1003923&t=3&paging=off
snip...
Ignoring the self-delusion of the latter part of the above text, Brat now joins no less than 200 million Americans, according to a number of polls, who believe the U.S. Constitution and our laws are based on Judeo-Christian values. On any given Sunday you will hear Christian-right politicians claim absurdly that U.S. laws are based on the Bible. Spoiler alert: theyre dead wrong. The Constitutions secular provisions came into being thanks to the Founding Fathers, who shared a deep suspicion of both organized religion and the supernatural. The Constitution was framed with a conscious omission of any mention of God and a prohibition of all religious tests for public office. Moreover, the First Amendments declaration that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion embodied the founders view that religion has no place in the political domain.
That not a single major media outlet bothered to correct Brats ignorance represents Americas continual decline in American civic and cultural literacy.
Every shortcoming of American governance is related in some fashion to the knowledge deficit of the public if only because there is no widespread indignation at policies shaped by elected officials who suffer from the same intellectual blind spots as their constituents, observed Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason.
If the rich can profit off of another clusterfuck in Iraq, they will get it.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)by lying to them.
He has since used his political skills to amass a significant following in Iraq. That means he's one of the potential candidates to replace Maliki. The article you didn't bother quoting mentions we also talked to other potential candidates, and even the Sunnis who can't possibly win the PM.
We don't get to pick who comes to political power in other countries.....at least, that's how it's supposed to work. So we get to talk to people like Chalabi when the scumbag has amassed political power.