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To: RandFan

“Iraq wasn’t a failure of intelligence. It wasn’t an honest mistake. It was a bald-faced lie.”

Nope. That is horseshit. I had access to classified info back then. SOME of it was mistaken, but it was not “a bald-faced lie.”

Steve Bannon is a self-serving bullshitter. There is a reason Trump threw him out YEARS ago!


5 posted on 06/21/2025 12:54:25 PM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: Mr Rogers

“Steve Bannon is a self-serving bullshitter. There is a reason Trump threw him out YEARS ago!”

Yep. Bannon is a self-serving narcissist. He doesn’t know how to play on a team and leverage everyone’s strengths. He focuses on weaknesses and condemns everyone but himself for the smallest of imperfections. In other words, an immature adult.


6 posted on 06/21/2025 12:56:18 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Mr Rogers

“Nope. That is horseshit. I had access to classified info back then. SOME of it was mistaken, but it was not “a bald-faced lie.”

My source (at State Dept back then) agrees with Mr. Rogers on this.


9 posted on 06/21/2025 12:59:17 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: Mr Rogers

The US knew of his weapons because we sold them the materials. No joke. It is all well documents.


11 posted on 06/21/2025 1:00:48 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Mr Rogers

He’s all that + he’s a drunk. He was unjustly imprisoned but the upside was his stupid mouth was shut for four months in the run up to the election .Other than the named attributes , he’s great


16 posted on 06/21/2025 1:05:11 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Mr Rogers

Well Trump just had lunch with Bannon and Bannon went to prison for defending President Trump.

What have you done lately?


19 posted on 06/21/2025 1:08:34 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Mr Rogers

Yup....how does he know its a “bald face lie”?? He has intelligence sources???


20 posted on 06/21/2025 1:11:52 PM PDT by God luvs America
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To: Mr Rogers

Thank you for pushing back against the “Iraq was a lie” trope. I was in Iraq 2003-2004, got some of the Salman Pak info and did some work at Abu Graib. There were things out there moved into Syria and Iran, and there was some stuff that was destroyed.

But the intel was right. When the second plane hit the towers, I and some of the people I knew immediately thought Iraq.


23 posted on 06/21/2025 1:20:15 PM PDT by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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To: Mr Rogers

Me too. No WMDs has been repeated so many times that every body believes it except for some of us who were there.


39 posted on 06/21/2025 1:31:35 PM PDT by Pocketdoor
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To: Mr Rogers
Nope. That is horseshit. I had access to classified info back then. SOME of it was mistaken, but it was not “a bald-faced lie.”

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49 posted on 06/21/2025 1:39:06 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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Panicans gonna panic.


80 posted on 06/21/2025 2:31:06 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO O.THER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Mr Rogers

Exactly! People also forget Bannon has a huge drinking problem.

People forget about about the German HUMINT source CURVEBALL. His material tied everything together. At the time he was believed to be golden. He was later discovered to be a fabricator. I don’t think we ever had direct access to him. Did the Germans use him to manipulate us into taking out Saddam? Could be!

We never had good HUMINT sources on Iraq.


89 posted on 06/21/2025 2:56:08 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Mr Rogers

Him and Poso both...


99 posted on 06/21/2025 3:36:34 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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