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March Madness: CONSERVATIVE Media lied to you about Iraq (and now Trump)

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There’s just something about the month of March that drives Republican presidents insane.

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March 19, 2018 · Admin Mugsy · No Comments - Add
Posted in: General, myth busting, Partisanship, Politics, Rants, rewriting history, Right-Wing Hypocrisy, Right-Wing Insanity, Scandals

STUNNING VIDEO: Iraqi soldiers say if US sends more troops, “We’ll fight them too!”

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Iraqi soldiers: “If Obama sends more troops to fight ISIS, we’ll fight ISIS AND the Americans!” (2:48) [flv:http://mugsysrapsheet.com/4blog/video/iraqis_threaten_to_fight_more_us_troops-150614.flv http://mugsysrapsheet.com/4blog/video/iraqis_threaten_to_fight_more_us_troops-150614.jpg 512 288] The full clip shows what a chaotic mess Iraq has become since the 2003 invasion. Not just from the constant fighting, but with the rise of Islamic militancy (women completely covered, schools closed, Christians […]

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June 15, 2015 · Admin Mugsy · No Comments - Add
Posted in: Election, Middle East, National Security, Politics, rewriting history, Right-Wing Insanity, Terrorism, War

Iraqis Showing the Route to Peace/Progress with Massive Infrastructure Project?

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After 12 years of war, Iraq may be showing America and the rest of the world the path to peace: Iraqi’s are building an entire city, Bismayah, just outside Baghdad. The massive infrastructure project has already created hundreds (thousands?) of new construction jobs (and hundreds more tangential jobs, related and non to construction) and once […]

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June 8, 2015 · Admin Mugsy · No Comments - Add
Posted in: General, Infrastructure, Jobs, Middle East, National Security, Right-Wing Insanity, Seems Obvious to Me, War

GOP Desperately Needs You to Forget How the Iraq War Started. Woodward: I found no lies.

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First it was “Benghazi!”, and the unmitigated OUTRAGE on the Right over the deaths of four Americans on 9/11/12 on the watch of a Democratic president (9/11/01? Four THOUSAND dead under a Republican President and Republican Congress? That’s not an “outrage”, that’s something to campaign on!) Next was Jeb Bush last week desperately hoping to convince everyone that “everybody” […]

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May 25, 2015 · Admin Mugsy · No Comments - Add
Posted in: Election, Middle East, myth busting, National Security, Politics, rewriting history, Right-Wing Hypocrisy, War

STUNNING VIDEO: Kristol claims “Iraq was safe and peaceful when George Bush left.” Seriously.

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My eyebrows hit the ceiling: “OMG! Did he really just say that???” Resident Right-Wing Chief Revisionist Historian and iconic Chicken-hawk Bill Kristol actually said during yesterday’s episode of ABC’s ThisWeek that “George Bush left Iraq safe & peaceful when he left office in 2008.” You think I’m kidding? Watch: Kristol: “Bush left Iraq safe & peaceful” […]

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February 23, 2015 · Admin Mugsy · One Comment - Add
Posted in: Middle East, myth busting, National Security, rewriting history, Right-Wing Insanity, War

No Arming Syrian Rebels. Have we learned *nothing* from Iraq?

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Two famous proverbs haunted me all last week:  “Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.” – Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman (1729-1797)  “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over & over, and expecting a different result each time.” – Author Rita Mae Brown (1983) as quoted by […]

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September 22, 2014 · Admin Mugsy · No Comments - Add
Posted in: Middle East, National Security, Seems Obvious to Me, Terrorism, War

This Is Why We Said No to Invading Iraq in 2003. Those who pushed for war, please shut up.

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Last June, The Rachel Maddow Show commented on the number of former Bush Administration figures that were suddenly being booked on the Sunday Political Talkshows to pontificate on the rise of ISIS, the Sunni-based terrorist organization: Attention Media: Stop booking Yahoos to advise on Iraq! (4:52) [flv:http://mugsysrapsheet.com/4blog/video/trms-stop_booking_yahoos_on_iraq-140620.flv http://mugsysrapsheet.com/4blog/video/trms-stop_booking_yahoos_on_iraq-140620.jpg 512 288] Yesterday on ABC’s ThisWeek, Bill […]

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August 25, 2014 · Admin Mugsy · One Comment - Add
Posted in: Middle East, National Security, Politics, rewriting history, Terrorism, War

Is ISIS Really a Threat to the U.S.? The argument(s) for staying out of Iraq’s Civil War.

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By now, you’ve already heard the “catastrophic”, “world-is-coming-to-an-end” news that a terrorist group “too extreme for alQaeda” (“too extreme” for a group that dive-bombed hijacked planes into buildings? Doubtful.) is slowly taking over Iraq, with Iraqi soldiers so afraid, they’re “stripping off their uniforms and running for their lives”. And… of course… a conga-line of Republicans taking to […]

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June 16, 2014 · Admin Mugsy · One Comment - Add
Posted in: Middle East, myth busting, National Security, Terrorism, War

10th Anniversary of the Iraq War, the Price of Gas, and the Mess We’re In Today

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Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of the saddest chapter of the George W. Bush presidency. Every disaster to follow… to this day… can be traced back to that decision to invade a relatively unarmed nation that had not attacked us, under the false pretense of “Weapons of Mass Destruction”. Our exploding National Debt, our decimated economy (from gas prices […]

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March 18, 2013 · Admin Mugsy · No Comments - Add
Posted in: Economy, Energy Independence, Middle East, Money, Politics, Right-wing Facism, Terrorism, War

Japan, Iraq, gas prices, and other disasters

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After such a convoluted week, this weeks’ Op/Ed may seem a bit convoluted as well, so bear with me. I’ll do my best to tie everything in. After suffering one of the worst earthquakes in history, followed by a massive tsunami that may have caused more death & destruction than the quake itself, Japan’s worst […]

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March 14, 2011 · Admin Mugsy · One Comment - Add
Posted in: Economy, Energy Independence, Environment, Middle East, Money, Politics, War

VIDEO: Sen. Robert Byrd on Iraq invasion – Mar. 13, 2003

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Senator Robert Byrd passed away this morning at the age of 92. Here is Sen. Byrd’s prescient speech warning against the invasion of Iraq on March 13, 2003… six days before the invasion (40 min):   While I highly encourage you to watch the entire 40 minute speech, here are a few highlights:   “The […]

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June 28, 2010 · Admin Mugsy · No Comments - Add
Posted in: General, Politics, Rants, War

Rove’s faulty memory on Iraqi oil revenues funding reconstruction. A Quick List.

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Iraq War Anniversary Edition Last week on Meet the Press, Karl Rove made the following astounding assertion: “No one in the Bush Administration ever said the reconstruction of Iraq could be paid for with Iraqi oil revenues.” Really? Are you F-ing kidding me? That little bit of revisionist history may fly with your neo-Conservative buddies, […]

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March 17, 2010 · Admin Mugsy · No Comments - Add
Posted in: myth busting, Politics, Right-Wing Insanity, War