White House: United States is in Afghanistan and Iraq -- by invitation

by Elsewhere 10 Replies latest jw friends

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  Elsewhere

  http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1.htm

  
  
  Helen Thomas Rides White House Press Sec: 'Were we invited into Iraq?'
  Wed May 25 2005 17:16:06 ET
  
  Wire Queen Helen Thomas today ripped into White House spokesman Scott McClellan over his claims that the United States is in Afghanistan and Iraq -- by invitation.
  
  Joined in progess...
  
  Q The other day -- in fact, this week, you said that we, the United States, is in Afghanistan and Iraq by invitation. Would you like to correct that incredible distortion of American history --
  
  MR. McCLELLAN: No, we are -- that's where we currently --
  
  Q -- in view of your credibility is already mired? How can you say that?
  
  MR. McCLELLAN: Helen, I think everyone in this room knows that you're taking that comment out of context. There are two democratically-elected governments in Iraq and --
  
  Q Were we invited into Iraq?
  
  MR. McCLELLAN: There are two democratically-elected governments now in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we are there at their invitation. They are sovereign governments, and we are there today --
  
  Q You mean if they had asked us out, that we would have left?
  
  MR. McCLELLAN: No, Helen, I'm talking about today. We are there at their invitation. They are sovereign governments -- Q I'm talking about today, too.
  
  MR. McCLELLAN: -- and we are doing all we can to train and equip their security forces so that they can provide for their own security as they move forward on a free and democratic future. Q Did we invade those countries?
  
  MR. McCLELLAN: Go ahead, Steve.
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  EvilForce

  Awesome post!!!
  
  George W and his ilk are so delusional it's mind blowing. He must have had his mind on the stripper/porn star that is coming to the White House for dinner with Bush June 14th.
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  heathen

  I can believe they were invited into Afghanistan because the Bush family is so tied in with the Bin Laden family , so now what we have is the US going in and arming and training the Al queida right in their own back yard . I don't think Iraq invited anybody in though, despite what the Bush administration says . They wanted the American public to believe that there was some kind coup de tate already in the making and the US would be welcome , but obviously it was all a fairy tale . I direct you to info wars and Alex Jones for more mind blowing facts .............
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  CoonDawg

  Seems to me that this is the "smoking gun" yet no one in the American mainstream media gave it any attention, other than how it may have affected the outcome of the elections in the UK. This is proof positive, not denied by the participants, that this war was a set up from way back.

  Ern
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  SixofNine

  Damn, I never thought the WhiteHouse would fall for my invitation gag! "deear meester Boosh, you are cordjewally invited to a quagmire in the desert party. We wish for yew to bring a dip and sum cokes and sum gunbarrel deemoocracy. RSVP, don't think, just come!"
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  Sparkplug

  don't think, just come!"

  LMAO
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  EvilForce

  Six of Nine...LOL
  
  However I guess on another level it's not really all that funny given all the deaths between all the soldiers and innocent civilians.
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  heathen

  Not to mention that americas future has been mortgaged to foreign countries . What is the price tag on this one going to be ? I've always felt that the invasion was unconstitutional even from the legal aspect of the constitution . Our democracy is based on that but how can you promote democracy if you keep breaking the laws that control government tyranny ? They don't even care about democracy in those parts of the world . The only difference between them and say, communist china, is that they are allowed one religion .
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  EvilForce

  I posted on another thread that it will cost $ 500,000,000,000 yup that's 1/2 a trillion $.
  
  I also outlined on another thread that by using $ 300 billion we could have created $ 5,000 rebates on hybrid vehicles (current hybrid premium is about $ 2,800) to save ourselves 2 billion barrels of oil daily....the exact amount of oil Iraq outputs. That was focusing on 1 solution.
  
  High speed rail is another.
  Raising CAFE - fuel effieciency
  Better Mass Tran
  R&D into hybrid and hydrogen vehicles and start the investment in changing over the fuel stations
  
  Ok, I'm pissed off now.... I'm going to start a new thread....I don't want to hijack this one
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  heathen

  LMAO --- EvilForce . Yah it makes me angry too . I am so sick of the oil barons controling the economy and destroying the environment . There just has to be another way . American industry is just so friggen creative I couldn't even think for a minute that there haven't been thousands of ideas already that were simply stifled by beaurocrats . Let's face it though we are at this point very dependant on the products from oil not just for fuel .