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angka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 12:31 AM
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Nixon ordered Watergate, and Bush let it happen on purpose
So 28 years after he resigned, somebody talks. Everyone knew anyway. But did you get the point behind Magruder's revealing of this Nixon stuff now? Seems like a very salient point to make—yes, it's not unthinkable that a president would lie and subvert democracy. It's happened before.

Will it take 28 years for someone to have the courage to tell the evident truth: that Bush himself got a pretty good idea of what was going to happen on 9/11; and instead of doing something about it, started thinking about all the ways his interests would benefit?

Do you think that making the American people the first recipients of "shock and awe" is an impeachable offense?
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MinnFats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 03:06 AM
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1. don't forget that Nixon and Kissinger...
...actually SABOTAGED the Paris Peace talks between the LBJ administration by telling the North Vietnamese they could get a better deal from a Nixon administration if they just stalled. Meanwhile, thousands of Americans and untold tens of thousands died to suit Nixon's political gamsemanship. Ultimately millions died before Nixon/kissinger accepted essentially the same terms that had been on the table when they torpedoed LBJ.
Liars? They're fucking murderers.
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DagmarK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 03:11 AM
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2. Oh, I didn't know that.......oh lord............
God......it's all soooooo evil. I can barely wrap my mind around it.......
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9215 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 08:44 AM
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5. This is true
Read "The Trial of Henry Kissinger" by Christopher Hitchens. Hitchy has been hammered pretty hard by the Left lately and he has a weird position on Iraq, but this book is a no holds barred damning of Kissinger. Kissinger sabotaged the peace talks to dampen Hubert Humphrey's re-election bid. It was the October Surprise of 68'.
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Robin Hood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 03:29 AM
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3. Impeachable would be the least of his worries.
How about the death penalty for murdering thousands of people to get Iraqi oil and ME dominance for his corporate buddies.
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angka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 08:28 AM
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4. all i can say is
he's lucky i'm against the death penalty.
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LiberalLibra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 08:54 AM
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6. What I want to know is why isn't SOMEONE/ANYONE making the case......
.....to the general public that using underhanded political tricks for political and purpsonal gains, while allowing Americans to die in ever greater number, is a pattern with neo CONS and reTHUGS????
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