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Bush on Why the U.S. Didn’t Send Troops to Darfur

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The year is 2008, and President George W. Bush has learned an important lesson in global affairs: “Outside forces” taking part in foreign clashes “tend to divide people up inside their country” and “are unbelievably counterproductive.”

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By kevin99999, February 26 at 10:06 am #
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This is laughable convenient rationale. The fact is that U.S. has consistently meddled in and invaded other countries at will.

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By JD, February 25 at 11:56 am #
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The scary thing...

is that Bush probably doesn’t see the irony in his comments.

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By laughoutloud, February 21 at 5:13 pm #
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where's the oil?

as i’ve said before, the US government will go to war wherever there is oil. there is none in darfur, so of course they won’t go there. and for all the ‘zionist’ critics, if isreal had all the oil and the arab countries had none, you’d better believe that the US would be stock-piling the arab countries with weaponry as they have isreal. its all about the oil, the rest is just filler to keep you talking and not acting, and its working extremely well.

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By Greg Bacon, February 21 at 1:19 pm #
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The Bush/Cheney Junta has not sent American kids-yet- to fight and die in Darfur because it’s not one of Israel’s “existential” enemies… yet.

The Bush/Cheney/Olmert company of MURDER Inc. has plans for American kids to come home in flag draped coffins from Iran and by gosh, they might just succeed.

Israel knows another 9/11 attack on American soil is out of the question.

So is stovepiping lies, more lies and damn lies from Tel Aviv to the White House Office of Special Plans, like they did to help jump start the illegal and immoral war against Iraq.

So Israel will just keep on with its extrajudicial killings of Syrians, Lebanese and maybe even an Iranian or two, in the hopes that Syria or Iran will take the bait and try to defend itself.

When they do, all hell will break loose in the ME and Bush might finally get his wish to be “Raptured” up to heaven on a stairway built out of millions and millions of charred corpses.

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By lilmamzer, February 22 at 7:58 am #
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So now we know what happened to Baghdad Bob. He posts at ~~Truth~~CrapDig under the deliciously ironic name of Greg Bacon.
Allahu Snackbar!

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By GW=MCHammered, February 21 at 11:14 am #
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Top Dollar!

Gun prices soar as Lebanon prepares for civil war - says the Dubai-based Arab TV channel, Al Arabiya.

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/02/21/45928.html

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By moe, February 21 at 7:31 am #
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Learning

So the idiot speaketh from his vast experience!

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By brewerstroupe, February 21 at 12:08 am #
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A bridge too far

Darfur is a long way from Tel Aviv.

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By lilmamzer, February 22 at 7:33 am #
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Re: A bridge too far

And here it is, right on cue: the obligatory ~~Truth~~CrapDig Boogey-Jew Paranoia comment.

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By Outraged, February 20 at 10:25 pm #
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"Unbelievably Counterproductive"

In the infamous words of Forrest Gump, “That’s all I have to say about that”.

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