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   cdward said, 5 months ago

   Weren’t most of those dollars sent before 2009?

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   Kylop said, 5 months ago

   Hasn’t that been “news” for the last three years? Or was Mr Asay unable to understand it back then?

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   Copperdomebodhi said, 5 months ago

   Kylop - Yes and no. The Bush administration sent billions in cash to Iraq that it can’t account for. Might have all gone to buy weapons for the insurgency, for all we know.

   Dunno if it was ‘news’ because the “liberal media” barely bothered reporting it. Back then, only America-hating terrorist-lovers questioned the government.

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   Ian Valenzuela said, 5 months ago

   That money wasn’t dumped out of planes, it was given to for-profit corporations, which, completely in character, decided it was better to keep the money than to spend it on reconstruction. International relations are TOO IMPORTANT to be left to the greedy multinationals, and we are paying the price for the neocons’ boondoggle.

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   Corosive Frog said, 5 months ago

   For once, Asay is spot on.

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   linusbern said, 5 months ago

   This comic is hilarious because it is so timely. Oh hang on, my computer clock says its 2009, I think I fell asleep about 5 years ago. Well its about time Asay noticed the middle-eastern wars are big money suck holes. What could possibly have happened while I was asleep to turn Asay against foreign military ventures?

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   Anthony 2816 said, 5 months ago

   Cdedward has the best comment on this.

   And it shows that once again, ANandy is completely clueless.

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   dtroutma said, 5 months ago

   Andy’s so up on the times he’s convinced Castro and Kennedy started WW II.

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   deadheadzan said, 5 months ago

   Yes, Assay has been asleep all through the Iraq fiasco and is only awakening now in 2009 to the fact that yes, we are up to our eyeballs in war debt.

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    pbarnrob said, 5 months ago

    @CH: For a motive, try on this; there was an ongoing investigation about {several Billion to a couple Trillion USD} missing in Pentagon budgets; the IG people compiling the records were – wait for it! – in Bldg. Seven (the one that wasn’t hit by anything, but was ‘pulled’ anyway). Evidence? What evidence?

    It might have helped somebody on the ground if they actually had leafleted with $100 bills, rather than the contractors.

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    NoFearPup said, 5 months ago

    Are you people even trying? The ‘Toon sucks. That’s the lamest C-130s I’ve ever seen drawn. A 5yr. old proud of his Loadmaster father could do better. (One of my nephews.) The subject matter, as was pointed out, is hypocritical. Do you people want government, security, and overseas-pull or not? I’m all for isolationism - but, only if you mean it.