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   omQ R said, about 12 hours ago

   No economies of scale? Say, if you sent in a gazillion troops, the unit cost would drop to mere pennies perhaps?

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   scottfreitas said, about 11 hours ago

   Well… I guess Osama could just listen to his Leftist base and immediately withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan, then do nothing at all until we are predictably attacked on our home soil again.

   Then, when we lose half of downtown Atlanta or whatever, the big question is: who will the liberals blame all the destruction on THIS time?

   Last time they blamed it all on Bush and Cheney, claiming they both planned and carried out 9/11, with Cheney personally pushing the buttons for both the remote-controlled drone airliners AND the plastic explosives planted in the basement of WTC7 (ignoring the 1993 truck bomb planted in the basement of the Twin Towers which, had it proven to be as powerful as the terrorists THOUGHT, would have brought the World Trade Center down for Bill Clinton to pooch his lower lip over in between bee jays).

   So when terrorists next mass-murder Americans on our own soil(ignoring the 13 killed in Texas by a lone terrorist just two weeks ago), will they claim Pres’dent Osama and Joe Biden carried out the attacks? Or would the explosion of a “dirty bomb” be blamed on the GOP? I can hear it now… “The Republicans carried out this attack in order to scare everyone into voting GOP in the next election! Where was Senator Mitch McConnell when this attack took place? We will need to convene an investigation into the whereabouts of all GOP house members right away!”

   The one lesson I’ve picked up from watching Demoncrats ever since 9/11–and with Fort Hood REALLY drumming the point home for me–is that no matter how many Americans die, no matter how high the body count climbs at the hands of Muslim terrorists, the Demoncrats will never accept either blame or responsibility on their parts for coddling Islam as our official State Religion, and will continue telling us all that “diversity” is all that matters. That we cannot sacrifice “diversity”, and that if we dare to imply that Islam is in any way connected with terrorism (as if studying History doesn’t provide all the evidence anyone needs), we must all be charged under the new Hate Crimes laws the Demoncrats recently snuck into a defense spending spending bill at the last moment…

   PS: the chief tenet of Islamic sharia law is that Islam must never be disparaged–that nothing bad can ever be said about Islam, or its followers. So are y’all liberals PROUD that your political party has put itself in charge of enforcing sharia law onto all of us? Mohammed would be pleased, that’s for sure…

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   Jim said, about 10 hours ago

   I wonder how many jobs those bailouts could have created ?

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   tedrall said, about 7 hours ago

   the surest sign of national insanity…………… we could easily keep our entire population fed and housed, but instead we choose to throw all that money away on pointless wars. The public gets the government it deserves!
   btw, I’m not Ted, my email just has his name in it.

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   JDG said, about 7 hours ago

   We are in it and must deal with it. We must stop bullying the rest of the world, insisting that they have our forms of government and our standards of living. We cannot become isolationists and make that work, but we can keep our nose out of other countries.
   
   I long for the days when I could brag that the United States had only started one war and learned it’s lesson and wouldn’t do it again.

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   jaxaction said, about 6 hours ago

   there are those who refuse to pay for the cost of wars, externally or internally– you noe, those who demand punishment, self serving chambermaids of commerence types, (loudly bemoaning “big government” all the while pimping the cost plus gov contracts)demanding mo helios, mo police, mo private prisons,
   mo piss tests, mo parole/probation , mo guards, mo bullets and mo bombs…

   They also can’t count(see recent presidential election).. you will not see these figures on sir rudys foxnoose, they just will not ‘get-it’. the interest ALONE is pure government waste, to say nothing of the loss of life and limb….they can not count anything.

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   dtroutma said, about 5 hours ago

   Our national ANNUAL “defense” budget, the posted one, not the real total from the “black box”, would fund a full DECADE of health care, for all. That defense budget is more than 10 times the amount of the second largest “military” budget in the world. Maybe we could invest more wisely?

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   HARVIN GWIN said, about 4 hours ago

   Going to have a good time come 2012 when celebrity General Petraeus becomes dictator of the New Order of the United States.Glad tidings to you silly hopers and changers.Your worst nightmare is coming soon. Like every president since DDE, P.T. Obarnum is a lapdog of the Pentagon and bankers.

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   comYics said, about 1 hour ago

   Right on Ted Rall!

   Of course we could cut some cost’s by teaching troops agriculture, planting vegtable gardens and hunting food in the various locals. Turn a few of those rifles into shovels. Start building communities in these regions and promote peace. Dig some wells in Africa so that the people their can have an over abundance of water, and share some skills in growing their own food. None will go hungry. Protecting America isnt only about keeping the bad guys out, but also helping the countries prosper with plenty of resources that everybody needs.

   Proverbs 15:1
   A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

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    vhammon said, about 1 hour ago

    The comparison implies a choice between troops in Afghanistan and jobs in America. We have more choice than that:

    The annual GDP in Afghanistan is under $500. We could be hiring scores of local police, teachers, nurses, street cleaners, school builders, etc. in Afghanistan for the cost of one of our soldiers there. - and giving the people there work would go along way toward reducing the number who pick up arms because there’s nothing much else to do, particularly for young men.

    In Afghanistan (as was also true for Iraq when we invaded) more than half of the population are children (under 18).

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    travelgirl said, about 1 hour ago

    personally, losing atlanta would be a good thing in my mind… :)