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by zhengiszen 1010 days ago
The irony is that he literally helped bomb Iraq (he was Clinton's vice president) for the same oil he's critical about now... What solutions he suggests besides green capitalism ? Hypocrisy is an art
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Are you talking about the First Gulf War that he was Clinton's VP for?

The one where Iraq invaded Kuwait, and we freed Kuwait from the Iraqi army, destroyed their scud missiles they rained on civilians, and then left keeping Iraq intact?

Also, the one that happened during George H.W. Bush's presidency?

Or maybe it's the second one, which happened during George W. Bush's presidency?

Do you understand what powers the VP has?

Do you realize that changing one's mind on new evidence is a sign of intelligence?

Do you understand what he's pitching and that the TED talk was just a focus on the fundamentals of the problem (e.g., fossil fuels are a problem and we need to get off them)?

Do you know what an ad-hominem attack is, and why they are used?