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> Obama in 2008 -- "I will close Guantanamo"

You could as well have said that he's a politician. I'll bet you believed Google when they said you'd be able to access your email whenever you wanted to as well. Such grandiose claims always have to be evaluated in the context of reality, otherwise we would have to add asterisks to practically each and every thing we say to cover all the possible pedantry.

> I can't remember the last time I heard the world in an uproar about US _not_ intervening and invading a country.

I didn't say "invade". I said "involved". Libya is merely the most recent of many examples.




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