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(2,223 posts) Sun Jun 22, 2025, 09:36 AM Yesterday

Another bullshit 'win' like Dubya [View all]

Need I say more?
— (@suzvz.bsky.social) 2025-06-22T04:02:32.061Z

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War wonâ€™t cost a lot of money
3) We wonâ€™t need a lot of troops
4) Weâ€™ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) Weâ€™ll find WMDs
6) Weâ€™ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It wonâ€™t take long

All lies.
— Molly Knight (@mollyknight.bsky.social) 2025-06-22T02:47:52.236Z

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Another bullshit 'win' like Dubya [View all] IrishBubbaLiberal Yesterday OP

"We will create a thriving democracy in the Middle East" Walleye Yesterday #1

+1. "I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations" dalton99a Yesterday #4

"We know they had nuclear weapons .... Because we destroyed them" dalton99a Yesterday #2

Did he actually tweet "God bless the Middle East"? bucolic_frolic Yesterday #3

The Christian God, no. Shipwack Yesterday #12

it's just their version of the same delusion Skittles 13 hrs ago #50

Trump criticized Obama for military actions, accusing him MadameButterfly Yesterday #13

Yeah, that's how I've been feeling for months. calimary 23 hrs ago #41

Yeah but the worst MadameButterfly 22 hrs ago #42

Well, there is that. calimary 19 hrs ago #48

Most Americans believed him, his poll numbers increased, he was re-elected and the Iraq war lasted eight years. sop Yesterday #5

Exactly, and that's the main takeaway. Xavier Breath Yesterday #6

The difference, though, was that we were attacked first. Granted, it wasn't by Iraq. Ocelot II Yesterday #8

I'm well aware that the situation was different. Xavier Breath Yesterday #17

Oh, quite. The situation is different but the craven media are as eager as ever Ocelot II Yesterday #18

Agreed, they've only worsened in subsequent years. Xavier Breath Yesterday #20

The Bush neocons were intent on invading Iraq before 9/11 Martin Eden Yesterday #22

Iraq was a problem long before that. Ocelot II 23 hrs ago #28

That "area's messes" grew from the colonial period Martin Eden 19 hrs ago #45

An awful lot of people PatSeg Yesterday #15

When does Krasnov land on an aircraft carrier FalloutShelter Yesterday #7

No! No! murielm99 Yesterday #9

I'd pay to watch that! Ocelot II Yesterday #19

It also has the potential end the daily post by Orrex Martin Eden Yesterday #23

It will have to be specially crafted anyway Bayard Yesterday #26

I got the opportunity in the summer of 74 BOSSHOG 13 hrs ago #51

Wasn't it Rumsfeld who said we only needed 30,000 troops? louis-t Yesterday #10

I remember "we know they are hiding WMD because we can't find them". twodogsbarking Yesterday #11

I remember Bush doing a really obscene PatSeg Yesterday #16

Every time I see a commercial pleading for donations to help grievously wounded soldiers Martin Eden Yesterday #24

I hate to say it but ... bif 23 hrs ago #30

Dim Son was dumb, and did evil things. Martin Eden 23 hrs ago #31

And he appears to do evil things PatSeg 23 hrs ago #37

"The Rapist makes W look like Einstein." Wednesdays 11 hrs ago #52

Or that we could end up with someone much worse PatSeg 23 hrs ago #36

Yes, it was at a Washington correspondents dinner. John1956PA 23 hrs ago #29

I can't believe his advisers let him do it PatSeg 23 hrs ago #38

W's routine at the 2004 dinner mocked the outcry of us Progressives that the 2003 Iraq invasion was based on a lie. John1956PA 22 hrs ago #43

"We don't have to" PatSeg 20 hrs ago #44

It had something to do with his dog Barney. LisaM 23 hrs ago #35

Yes, "No weapons in here...." PatSeg 23 hrs ago #39

It was also around that time he made a Soviet-grade historical rewrite... JHB 19 hrs ago #47

That brings back memories PatSeg 17 hrs ago #49

Mexico will pay for the wall. ICE will only target dangerous criminals. Tax cuts trickle down. IronLionZion Yesterday #14

I WISH pundits, analysts, and politicians would stop pretending that the Tr*mp WH carefully wiggs Yesterday #21

Exactly Hornedfrog2000 23 hrs ago #34

Yeah? Says you and fuck me. If it wasn't for Dubya, 3Hotdogs Yesterday #25

I'm no historian Beatlelvr 23 hrs ago #27

Iirc lonely bird 23 hrs ago #32

My only thoughts after reading the posts Dan 23 hrs ago #33

It'll be over in six days or six weeks, I doubt six months, so sayeth Donny Rumfeld. flashman13 23 hrs ago #40

Just tell 'em what you want them to hear. calimary 19 hrs ago #46