I see this used to deride a lot of politicians and I think it falls somewhere between revisionist and dishonest. People seem to have forgotten that intelligence reports at the time were confident in the Iraq link to bin Laden. Ironically, it seems that the people who forget or shrug off those reports are the very people putting the most faith in current intelligence reports about the actions of Russian agents. If Senator Clinton was assured, as so many lawmakers of the time tell us they were, that the Hussein regime was behind OBL, then of course she supported the war. I think a lot of the people criticizing the decision to have an Iraq War are too young to recall the national mood at the time.
There are also lots of holier than thou mentions of "Saddam never had WMD." This again flies in the face of the intelligence reports of the time, and would no doubt be comforting news to the many Kurds he killed with chemical weapons several years before the Iraq War.
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"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
whats irrational about hating someone who wants to put me in a cage and give me a scarlet letter? She took all kinds of bribes from pharma companies to maintain thr status quo on drug policy. I have actually found where she said she would reschedule marijuana but I dont believe her. Remember the public position and private position comments she made? Well she said she was againat it in every sense of the word when asked at one of her speeches.
I dont know whats wrong with linking the Clintons. Hillary wasnt the traditional first lady. She was very involved in policy matters. She herself links herself to the old Clinton administration.
Hillary reminds me of Mom from Futurama. I would respect her more if she dropped the act she puts on in public. Do you know she cheated in the 2008 primary too? She lost to a black man amd Donald Trump. She is in biggest political loser in modern history.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
No, there were no links between the two. But the people who are supposed to know assured us that the links were there. Many people now believe that the intelligence agencies were using the supposed link to cover up for their failure to discover and stop the 9/11 plots. Either way, those faulty intelligence reports are what Bush and Hillary and everyone else based their decisions on.
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I still don't see why the drug laws from her husband that you characterize as Draconian make her The Devil. Even if the country were to legalize most drugs and it solved all the social problems you have gripes with, the era of harsher laws was still a logical step to try. It can make sense and still be wrong.
Do a little research on Russia's drug laws.
I disagree with putting pot smokers in jail, but sellers of harder drugs should get the hammer. Bring back the death penalty for a few years and execute all inmates on death row. That should reduce the prison population some.
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Jaw (08-06-2018)
I don't like Hillary, never have. I heard her give a commencement speech in person once and disliked her immediately, though I was very much in the minority. Her lame performance in 2016 against Trump was unforgivable, even knowing that she would've won without Putin's help. She was a million times more qualified than Trump and her inability to display that showed that she was still unready for leadership. The idea that Trump, who was entirely propped up with lies and scams, was ready for leadership, makes my head hurt.
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Yeah, but there was substantial contemporaneous reason to believe (heh) that those intelligence reports were spotty at best and exaggerated/fabricated at worst. This is not revisionism—it was out there at the time.
The Iraq/al-qaeda link, the phantom nuclear program, source Curveball...all that stuff was disputed in essentially real time. It was just intended to be scary enough to spook an already nervous populace and provide a fig leaf for politicians.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
Not much the CIA does can surprise me now, after reading about their exploits for the last 30 years, but what specifically are you referring to? Why does that matter? Hillary was never in charge of the CIA.
Stick with legalization.All I want is to either hold the government accountable for their drug crimes or legalize it.
This sounds too naive for you.They cant have it both ways and be considered a legitimate government.
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good points. I wouldnt vote for Putin but I wouldnt vote for Hillary if she was running against him. The CIA drug running relates to the Clintons in that they are accused by local prosecutors of obstructing their investigations into drug smuggling through Mena airport because it was sanctioned by the CIA. I dont think its likely thats something Bill shared with Hillary though.
I am not feeling all that motivated to make a long sourced post about the disasters related to the Clintons at the moment. I didnt pay much attention to politics during her time as secretart of state. I will get around to it.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
The CIA has been involved in the smuggling of all sorts of contraband and other nefarious endeavors since before the days of OAS. Read Civil War history and the spy vs spy games they played.
The Clintons,Bushs,Roosevelts,Johnsons, Carters,Obamas and yes Trumps come and go . But the covert intelligence community is older than the Caesars .
There are many ways to find fault or disagreement with HRC.
But the CIA ?
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
I said I dont blame her for that as I doubt Bill told her about it. Dont let my hate of Hillary make you think I am okay with what these Presidents did. I think just about all of them criminals. They arent involved in politics anymore.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
point is, it isn't/wasn't the Presidents.
It is the institution of Intelligence gathering.
It seems to get reigned in perhaps once a generation , but spy gonna spy.
JFK took public responsibility for an operation he inherited from the Eisenhower Era.
Oliver North and the rest took the fall for CIA doings in Iran and Central America -- never knew what hit them.
It is what makes watching Trumps naive handling of the intelligence community so chilling.
He delusional enough to actually thinks he's in charge
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
So would you agree with me this is why Ron Paul was blacklisted by the media in the 2012 primaries? Because Ron fought against this **** for 40 years and it was a focal point of his Presidential campaign.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
The war on drugs is the holocaust in slow motion. In 50 years we will look back at these days of prohibition and wonder how we let it happen. The toll it has taken on America pales in comparison to the devastation it has caused in Central and South America. The unintended consequences are so far reaching on society that it cant possibly be understated. We cant fix it at this point only stop doing the damage. Then it will take generations to heal.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.