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When Will We Stop Letting Our Presidents Lie America Into Wars?
 America has been lied into too many wars. It's cost us too much in terms of money, credibility and blood. We must remember the lies. We can't afford to let this one go down the memory hole, too. Let's never forget that what we are watching happen right now in Afghanistan is the final act of George W. Bush's 2004 reelection strategy. After 9/11 the Taliban offered to arrest Bin Laden, but Bush turned them down because he wanted to be a "wartime president" to have a "successful presidency." The Washington Post headline weeks after 9/11 put it succinctly: " Bush Rejects Taliban Offer On Bin Laden." With that decision not to arrest and try Bin Laden for his crime but instead to go to war George W. Bush set the US and Afghanistan on a direct path to today. More recently, Trump and Pompeo gave the Taliban everything they wanted. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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Saturday Report 8/14/21
The best of the rest of the news. — Afghanistan falls. George W. Bush's 2004 re-election strategy is finally coming to an end. Bush, you'll recall, turned down the Taliban's offer to arrest Osama Bin Laden after 9/11, and instead began bombing Afghanistan because he thought it was good politics. Twenty years later, here we are. Meanwhile, if President Biden really expected the Taliban to hold back until we'd evacuated the country, he needs to fire his advisors. No country wants to be occupied and every nation fights occupation: that principle was at the foundation of our nation, when people who'd lived in North America for generations rejected occupation by British forces. The Trump administration cut a deal with the Taliban that let Trump ignore the crisis of Afghanistan and further empowered the Taliban; it also made a safe withdrawal even more difficult. But at the end of the day, leaving was really the only option America had. Hopefully, after having experienced this twice in the past 50 years, we'll learn from the lessons of Vietnam and Afghanistan…and probably soon Iraq as well. When presidents lie us into wars, it always turns out ugly. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: When Will We Stop Letting Our Presidents Lie America Into Wars?
Tweet: " New: Republican Party has removed a page from their website bragging about Trump's deal with the Taliban that committed Biden to withdraw 5,000 US troops from Afghanistan — and led to the fall of Kabul today." by Hugo Lowell. Quote: " As a matter of fact, in interviews in 1999 with respected journalist, and long time Bush family friend, David Herskowitz, then Governor George Bush stated: 'One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade... if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency." - My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings" by Cindy Sheehan, June 16 2005. Tweet: " "I started the process, all the troops are coming home, they (Biden) couldn't stop the process. 21 years is enough. They (Biden) couldn't stop the process, they (Biden) wanted to but couldn't stop the process."
- Trump, 1 month ago [video]" by david nussbaum. Quote: " My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age." - Curtis LeMay.
Hour Two: Trump's Sabotage of America - Both Covid & Afghanistan - Appears To Be Working...
Hour Three: What the Trump Death Cult & Ron Death-Santis Has Made Clear...
Article: " US reaches deal with Taliban on evacuations: report" by Joseph Choi. " The official said that in the meeting on Sunday in Doha, Qatar, Gen. Frank McKenzie won Taliban agreement to establish a "deconfliction mechanism" — an arrangement by which evacuation operations at the airport can continue without interference by the new rulers of the country." Clip: " Iraq sits on top of 10 percent of the world's oil reserves, very significant reserves, second only to Saudi Arabia." Vice President Dick Cheney, Meet the Press, September 14, 2003. Quote: " Our men are so happy at home that they will not hire themselves to be shot at for a shilling a day. Hence we can have no standing armies for defence" - Thomas Jefferson. |
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