>>The Iraqi invasion has been the stupidest episode in our history. Viet Nam was nothing compared to this. At least then we thought it was a good cause and we didn't irritate the entire world in the process.
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>Oh you did, but you didn't notice. The mantra you believed then (and probably still do) was that anticommunism justifies anything. Couldn't go wrong with that, you thought.


How patronizing. FWIW I have never believed the anti-Communist mantra.