Iraq hawks are just as wrong on Afghanistan


	Iraq hawks are just as wrong on Afghanistan

masbury

10-11-2009 6:29 PM

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afghanistan, iraq

masbury says:

Why do we listen to the same arguments that initiated the Iraq invasion, from the same people who made them then?

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10-12-2009 9:22 AM

Jorjor

This puts me in mind of Rita Mae Brown's definition of insanity (often misattributed to Einstein).

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<H2>Why is anyone still listening to McCain, Lieberman, and Graham?</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newser.com/story/71411/iraq-hawks-are-just-as-wrong-on-afghanistan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hom"><P>
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                                The Three Amigos who pushed the invasion of Iraq are at it again, now claiming that we <EM>must </EM>escalate the war in Afghanistan if we want to avoid another 9/11—the same claim they used before to urge us to take on Iraq in 2003, Frank Rich writes. Rich finds it bizarre that anyone listens to John McCain, Joe Lieberman, and Lindsey Graham as they dust off and repurpose the talking points on Iraq, conflating the Taliban with al-Qaeda the same way they did Saddam Hussein's regime.     
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