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Old 12-08-2010, 11:17 AM   #84
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Originally Posted by Amber Lamps View Post
Yea because you would know what they were thinking BEFORE they even got into office... Reality check, 911 occurred 9 months into Bush's first term...POLITICS yeesh! EVERYONE wanted to attack Iraq at that time. The votes in both the House and the Senate were landslides. Polls showed something like 70-80% of the public for the war. This is exactly what I'm talking about.
I've read enough to know they had been thinking of it for a long time, and were just looking for an excuse. They belonged to the same neo-con think-tank that advocated spreading American doctrine worldwide.

You might also want to look at this, I think it sums things up quite nicely: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/1..._n_786219.html
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