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Six Years Ago

By The Daily Dish

Mar 20 2009, 12:48 PM ET

You realize again from this speech just how utterly different the rationale was for the war at the start than it is now: to "defend the world from grave danger." There was no grave danger. How the US government could have been so incompetent in making such a serious charge remains bewildering to me. How I was so credulous still shames me.



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