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Agree, the architects of our 21st century wars and those that implemented them are still held in high regard and not seen as the murderous bastards they really are. They pushed a long held agenda planned in the early 1990's just waiting for a 9/11 to pull it off. Anyone who doubts this should listen to Weslie Clark, You-tube: "Gen Wesley Clark Reveals US Plan To Invade Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Lybia." They rationalize the horror they created, the people they killed, and somehow are able to live with themselves. Just think of Cheney who is a primary signatory on the Project for a New American Century who pushed for the war in Iraq, orchestrated it, yet gets paraded around the Jan 6 comm by his daughter and continues to be held in esteem while we're targeting Trump for the Jan 6 riot. Yeah, nothing like a scapegoat to divert attention away from the horrors we implemented in the 21st century. Focus your ire on Trump, hate him, and let everyone else slip away unscathed. A perfect scapegoat used by many. He was in no way perfect,  and implemented policies one could truly challenge, but he was, and in many ways continues to be our scapegoat. He continues to be used in that way by the democrats, although indirectly, as was demonstrated when Taibbi came before them to give his findings on the Twitter files which showed that Twitter, Facebook Google etc, were taking orders from the FBI, the CIA, the democrats etc,  that is, "The news media became an arm of a state-sponsored thought-policing system", Taibbi. said. He took a lot of loathsome flack from the democrats that day. One of the orders Twitter took was to push the lie that Biden's son's lap top was nothing more then Russian disinformation, since they wanted a Biden win, and maybe they thought they deserved it after pushing the lie of Russia-gate for four long years which continues to this day.  

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Are you capable of commenting, ever, without looping the nasty Democrats persecuting Trump refrain? Seriously, it’s become a running gag on Caitlin’s blog. It isn’t that you’re wrong, it’s just that it’s a known, digested story, but you seem to want to argue that he’s a viable alternative for peaceniks who want their country back. Are you aware that this current run on banks is a direct result of your guy weakening the laws that were drafted in 2009 to prevent a repeat of the near global economic depression in 2008? He’s a human toxin. He loves oligarchs and hates the poor. He is presently campaigning for the 2024 Republican nomination by promising to cease aid to Ukraine and politically destroying the neocons. The only reason he probably won’t win is because he’s a notorious liar.

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My commentary on Trump, or my position is a running gag on Caitlain's site? Well, I'll be damned, thanks for telling, maybe I'll pay attention to it sometime. Or maybe not because who gives a shit. Sure lets blame him for the Banks, and if that's the case the democrats supported him on that one. Well, I did defend him when they said he was an illegitimate president because the Russians put him in office, you know Russia-gate, and I was right on that count. I defended him when they said he sent some hookers over to a hotel room in Russia where Obama and his wife slept and paid them to piss on their bed. I never believed that, and I was right, and he never did that. Did you believe it, because it's so stupid. I thought that what they are calling an insurrection wasn't an insurrection, but a riot and Glen Greenwald agrees. It was a riot, and I don't think he told them to do that. Go prove that he did, but you can't use the mainstream media as proof. Guess why? He didn't lie us into any new wars and Caitlan is talking about the Iraq war which was based on lies, lies Biden even sold to his fellow democrats in the Senate. Then he said when there were no weapons found, he just took George at his word. He forgot, I guess,  he was pushing that war in the 1990's. Unwarranted you made a lot of unwarranted accusations and when you do that it makes an ass out of you. Now you would think someone like yourself might be more concerned about the lies pushed by Biden and those in his administration who has us on the brink of a possible nuclear war, remember Trump wanted to get along with Russia, but they wouldn't let him. 

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