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2017-11-02 Iraq

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-11-02 05:36|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Depressing, but predictable.

The thing about geopolitics is you can change the politics, but not the geo.

Posted by phil_b 2017-11-02 05:44|| 2017-11-02 05:44|| Front Page Top

#2 What, again?

Posted by Herb McCoy7309 2017-11-02 05:49|| 2017-11-02 05:49|| Front Page Top

#3 "These people are tough, reliable and upright. Shit, that's creepy..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-11-02 08:37|| 2017-11-02 08:37|| Front Page Top

#4 This may come back to haunt the US.

There was once this guy "Nguyễn Sinh Cung" in southeast Asia who was actively aiding US and British forces in defeating the Japanese in that area. He once upon a time in 1945, accompanied and encouraged by US OSS Agents, declared:

All men are created equal; they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights; among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

This immortal statement was made in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in 1776. In a broader sense, this means: All the peoples on the earth are equal from birth, all the peoples have a right to live, to be happy and free.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of the French Revolution made in 1791 also states: All men are born free and with equal rights, and must always remain free and have equal rights.

Those are undeniable truths.

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In the field of politics, they have deprived our people of every democratic liberty.

They have fettered public opinion; they have practiced obscurantism against our people.

In the field of economics, they have fleeced us to the backbone, impoverished our people and devastated our land.

They have robbed us of our rice fields, our mines, our forests, and our raw materials. They have monopolized the issuing of bank notes and the export trade.

They have invented numerous unjustifiable taxes and reduced our people, especially our peasantry, to a state of extreme poverty.

After the Japanese had surrendered to the Allies, our whole people rose to regain our national sovereignty...

We are convinced that the Allied nations, which at Tehran and San Francisco have acknowledged the principles of self-determination and equality of nations, will not refuse to acknowledge the independence.

A people who have courageously opposed domination for more than eighty years, a people who have fought side by side with the Allies against the fascists during these last years, such a people must be free and independent!

For these reasons, we, the members of the Provisional Government, solemnly declare to the world that:

[This Nation] has the right to be a free and independent country—and in fact it is so already. And thus the entire ... people are determined to mobilize all their physical and mental strength, to sacrifice their lives and property in order to safeguard their independence and liberty.

Some pretty strong echoes of the US Declaration of Independence in there. His Intel and Military associates from the US trained him well.

He was of course backstabbed by the US State Dept, which drove him away from the nascent respect for Western Democracy that had been planted by the US.

I think he changed his name somewhere along the way. They ended up calling him Ho Chi Minh.

Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2017-11-02 18:08|| 2017-11-02 18:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Why do we need a state department? What do they do that could not be done by a 'mail in' bureau? Why do we need foreign embassies?

Posted by irishrageboy 2017-11-02 19:10|| 2017-11-02 19:10|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm embarrassed for my country.

Posted by Vernal Stalin4700 2017-11-02 19:43|| 2017-11-02 19:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Why do we need foreign embassies?

Otherwise, who would distribute the payoffs?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-11-02 19:54|| 2017-11-02 19:54|| Front Page Top

#8 This will be remembered.

Posted by newc 2017-11-02 20:06|| 2017-11-02 20:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Really,
Rantburgers, you didn't see this coming?
Really?
It's not over. You realize this, right?

Posted by jvalentour 2017-11-02 23:15|| 2017-11-02 23:15|| Front Page Top

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