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Quixote1818

(28,936 posts) Thu Apr 19, 2012, 12:19 AM Apr 2012

Lets list all the policies that could be compared to "Stand Your Ground"

Here are just a couple to get things started. Lets be real, it's the same kind of shoot first ask questions later logic that gets a lot of innocent people killed:

1. The Iraq War
2. The Patriot Act

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Lets list all the policies that could be compared to "Stand Your Ground" (Original Post) Quixote1818 Apr 2012 OP

Fire Shirley Sherrod Chipper Chat Apr 2012 #1

Bush Doctrine Generic Other Apr 2012 #2

Chipper Chat

(9,679 posts)

1. Fire Shirley Sherrod

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Thu Apr 19, 2012, 12:30 AM

Apr 2012

Nominate Mitt Romney.

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)

2. Bush Doctrine

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Thu Apr 19, 2012, 01:41 AM

Apr 2012

Preventive strike.

"Make no distinction between terrorists and the nations that harbor them--and hold both to account."
"Take the fight to the enemy overseas before they can attack us again here at home."
"Confront threats before they fully materialize."
"Advance liberty and hope as an alternative to the enemy's ideology of repression and fear."

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