Reality-BasedTM Political Numbers from Nicholas Beaudrot
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Reality-BasedTM Political Numbers from Nicholas Beaudrot
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Um, Mr. Gilliard? No one shot Bobby Kennedy because he was for civil rights; Sirhan Sirhan, a halfway-deranged Palestinian-American, shot RFK, supposedly for his support of Israel (The Evan Thomas biography suggests Sirhan saw video of Kennedy at a synagogue; Wiki suggests that the evidence is not so clear-cut)
Elsewhere, yes, let's stop conflating pre-emptive war (which is what Israel did when they saw the tanks lining up on their border) with preventative war (which is what George W. Bush was selling when he got us to invade Iraq on the off chance that they might some day ). The first is a natural response to a real threat; the second is just wetting the bed over what might happen many years down the road.
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