Apocalypse

So basically, in your opinion, the biggest political scandal of all time is America?

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ARealConservative

I didn't day anything of the sort.

Apocalypse

Perhaps not knowingly.

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ARealConservative

either explain yourself or be ignored.


totally your call.

Apocalypse

The only thing in common with what took America to the wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and WWI, is America itself.
Your government makes the calls, hence your government was the reason for joining/starting these wars.
And when referring to the American government, one can simply call it "America".

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CaptainCourtesy

Your knowledge of history is certainly lacking if you believe that.

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Gardener

Biggest scandal? I would say that came on November 7th, 2000.

and it ruined a perfectly good birthday for me, too.

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Scorpion89

Here are a few on my top list,

House Banking Scandal-the House of Representatives Bank found that 450 members had overdrawn their checking accounts, but not been penalized. Six were convicted. Twenty two more were singled out by the House Ethics Committee.

Abscam-FBI sting involving fake 'Arabs' trying to bribe 31 congressmen. Arrested were NJ State Senator Angelo Errichetti (D) and members of the Philadelphia City Council. The following six Congressmen were convicted.

Swartwout-Hoyt scandal-involving the Port of New York Collectors' Office, became a struggle between President John Tyler (D) and Congress concerning authority to appoint and pay investigative commissioners.

SpotsCat

No joke!

There was the sordid affair involving LBJ and Billie Sol Estes, which was supposedly making JFK consider changing the VP for the 1964 election.

The Congressional investigation into General Dynamics winning the contract for the TFX (F-111) - which was manufactured in Fort Worth.

And, let's not forget the affair about the Serve-U Corporation and the role that LBJ's protegee Bobby Baker played in it - which caused Baker to resign as Secretary to the Senate Majority Leader in October 1963.

And then suddenly, on November 23rd, 1963, all these problems just went away...

Funny how life works out sometimes, isn't it?

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tryreading

The three things these wars have in common are the misinformation, faked intelligence, you know, the lying that started them off. That was done by our government, you're right. But I don't think his point in bringing up the 3 wars was to demean America, but to remind us that our leaders have lied to us for public opinion purposes to get the war backing they wanted at the time.