Our Only Chance Of Bringing The Troops Home Within The Next 10 Fucking Years

my2handsmy2hands Posts: 17,117
edited April 2008 in A Moving Train
is Barack Obama... that is the flat out reality of the situation... realize it
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  • spinbrett getting to ya?

    hehehe
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  • Didn't you used to rag on Ron Paul supporters for posting Paul threads over and over again?

    uh, yeah.
    :cool:
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  • 10 years is the new estimate now?

    We can't afford to keep this war going, period

    I think we'll see the same amount of war with Hillary, Obama or even McCain and then the bottom is going to collapse under us if it's not ended because we have no way of paying for it.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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  • bah.
    nevermind.
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  • JD SalJD Sal Posts: 790
    10 years is the new estimate now?

    We can't afford to keep this war going, period

    I think we'll see the same amount of war with Hillary, Obama or even McCain and then the bottom is going to collapse under us if it's not ended because we have no way of paying for it.

    Why do you feel this way? It doesn't make sense. McCain is pro-surge and pro-war and Obama is the total opposite.
    "If no one sees you, you're not here at all"
  • JD Sal wrote:
    Why do you feel this way? It doesn't make sense. McCain is pro-surge and pro-war and Obama is the total opposite.


    How the hell would we even pay for McCain's plans? He's knows it's bullshit. There's no way we can keep this war going much longer.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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  • slightofjeffslightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    JD Sal wrote:
    Why do you feel this way? It doesn't make sense. McCain is pro-surge and pro-war and Obama is the total opposite.

    well, if Obama is anti-surge, then he's a dipshit. (Actually, I think he's a tell-the-base-what-it-wants-to-hear politician. Same thing).

    It had to be done.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • slightofjeffslightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    How the hell would we even pay for McCain's plans? He's knows it's bullshit. There's no way we can keep this war going much longer.

    How would we play for Obama's plans, or Hillary's? Everyone wants to spend money, on defense or on other things.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • How would we play for Obama's plans, or Hillary's? Everyone wants to spend money, on defense or on other things.

    Not to mention all the corporate welfare. We could cut out that and trim down the bloated defense budget and end this war then we'd have plenty of money for social spending and UHC.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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  • JD SalJD Sal Posts: 790
    well, if Obama is anti-surge, then he's a dipshit. (Actually, I think he's a tell-the-base-what-it-wants-to-hear politician. Same thing).

    It had to be done.

    Why is Obama a dipshit if he was anti-surge?

    And I disagree. He's a politican after all, but I think he's the most sincere candidate in a while and I think he will do everything possible to end this war.
    "If no one sees you, you're not here at all"
  • JD SalJD Sal Posts: 790
    How the hell would we even pay for McCain's plans? He's knows it's bullshit. There's no way we can keep this war going much longer.

    How did we pay for it the past 5 years? We shouldn't have sustained such a large military presence for this long, but we have.
    "If no one sees you, you're not here at all"
  • JD Sal wrote:
    Why is Obama a dipshit if he was anti-surge?

    And I disagree. He's a politican after all, but I think he's the most sincere candidate in a while and I think he will do everything possible to end this war.


    One of his advisors said 16 months is a best case scenario. His plan says we keep troops in Iraq if Al Qaeda is there. How is this different from what Bush has been using to keep the war going?
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • JD Sal wrote:
    How did we pay for it the past 5 years? We shouldn't have sustained such a large military presence for this long, but we have.

    You're right, it's real bad now so this must be as bad as it can get...we can go on forever. There's bad then there's worse

    Maybe we can all just go into our closets and start using our monopoly money.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • JD Sal wrote:
    How did we pay for it the past 5 years? We shouldn't have sustained such a large military presence for this long, but we have.

    Do you understand how fiat currency works?

    We could fund this war until the end of time.
    It is just going to cost us the value of the dollar.

    The Fed can print up as much money as the Government wants, provided the government is willing to give the Fed something of "value", like treasury bonds ... which are little more than notes saying that you and i are liabled to repay what funds the Government has requested.

    At the end of the day, the only limit to the amount of money the Government can get from the Fed, is that amount which the market will knowingly accept before it decides that the dollar has no value.

    That is what the dollar index attempts to measure, the relative "value" of the dollar as perceived by the markets.

    It's down 7 pennies in 8 months, by the way.
    ;)

    Here is one of my favorite quotes on the subject, as found in The Creature from Jekyll Island by G.E. Griffin, page 162:
    Every one, through whose hands a bill passed, lost on that bill what it lost in value during the time it was in his hands. This was a real tax on him; and in this way the people of the United States actually contributed those ... millions of dollars during the war, and by a mode of taxation the most oppressive of all because the most unequal of all.

    This was in reference to the Continental dollar, one of America's first experiments with "fiat" currency -- which coincidentaly was created out of necessity ... for what? ... to fund a WAR. :shock: :eek: :gasp:
    Remember the phrase, "not worth a Continental"?
    Yeah.
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  • JD SalJD Sal Posts: 790
    One of his advisors said 16 months is a best case scenario. His plan says we keep troops in Iraq if Al Qaeda is there. How is this different from what Bush has been using to keep the war going?

    A military report that was released I believe in the Fall of 2007 said that Al Qaeda accounts for 2% in Iraq. That's it, 2%. But, everytime you hear about a roadside bomb, it was AL QAEDA! Bush spins this bullshit and the media just slops it up.

    And I think his advisor was just being realistic with the expectations. A best case scenario now would probably be 12-16 months. As much as you and I want it to happen, all the troops can't just come home tomorrow. It's going to take time.
    "If no one sees you, you're not here at all"
  • JD Sal wrote:
    A military report that was released I believe in the Fall of 2007 said that Al Qaeda accounts for 2% in Iraq. That's it, 2%. But, everytime you hear about a roadside bomb, it was AL QAEDA! Bush spins this bullshit and the media just slops it up.

    And I think his advisor was just being realistic with the expectations. A best case scenario now would probably be 12-16 months. As much as you and I want it to happen, all the troops can't just come home tomorrow. It's going to take time.


    So how do you know Obama won't use the Al Qaeda excuse to keep us in Iraq?

    I wonder why the Dems are looking so good to Defense contractors this year?
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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    -Oscar Wilde
  • So how do you know Obama won't use the Al Qaeda excuse to keep us in Iraq?

    I wonder why the Dems are looking so good to Defense contractors this year?

    How do we know he WON'T?

    C'mon bookie ... you know whats up.
    He has flat out said he WILL use this excuse.
    Its on his website, isn't it?

    :(
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    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • How do we know he WON'T?

    C'mon bookie ... you know whats up.
    He has flat out said he WILL use this excuse.
    Its on his website, isn't it?

    :(

    I know this. But I was interested in hearing JD's answer. :)
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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  • JD SalJD Sal Posts: 790
    So how do you know Obama won't use the Al Qaeda excuse to keep us in Iraq?

    I wonder why the Dems are looking so good to Defense contractors this year?

    I don't know. Neither do you. Bush ran on a platform of no nation building. How many other countless lies did he tell? But I take Obama as slightly more sincere that George Bush. So far, Obama has responded to every major obstacle very well in my opinion, by talking to Americans like adults, with dignity and respect. He can bring this country together. Even Ed Rendell, the governor of PA who is a superdelegate for Hillary, said Obama has done something that no one else is his lifetime has been able to do. It's a movement. Young people are inspired and are getting involved with politics like no other time in history.

    Obama must follow through on what he pledges to do. Do either of us know for sure if he will? Of course not. No one but Obama does. But if he says wants to end the war, I trust that he will do everything in his power to make that happen.
    "If no one sees you, you're not here at all"
  • NevermindNevermind Posts: 1,006
    This thread title made me laugh. Were building permanent bases there. We are going to be stuck there till way after we all expire.
  • El_KabongEl_Kabong Posts: 4,141
    doh
    standin above the crowd
    he had a voice that was strong and loud and
    i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
    eager to identify with
    someone above the crowd
    someone who seemed to feel the same
    someone prepared to lead the way
  • El_KabongEl_Kabong Posts: 4,141
    JD Sal wrote:
    A military report that was released I believe in the Fall of 2007 said that Al Qaeda accounts for 2% in Iraq. That's it, 2%. But, everytime you hear about a roadside bomb, it was AL QAEDA! Bush spins this bullshit and the media just slops it up.

    And I think his advisor was just being realistic with the expectations. A best case scenario now would probably be 12-16 months. As much as you and I want it to happen, all the troops can't just come home tomorrow. It's going to take time.

    his advisor also said obama would be comfortable keeping 5 battalions in iraq which is roughly 35,000 or so troops
    standin above the crowd
    he had a voice that was strong and loud and
    i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
    eager to identify with
    someone above the crowd
    someone who seemed to feel the same
    someone prepared to lead the way
  • El_Kabong wrote:
    ummm, bush certainly did NOT run on a platform of nation building!!! in fact, in the 2000 debates he criticized gore for kosovo saying our military is not to be used to police the world or for nation building and went on and on how wrong it was to misuse the military like that

    "no nation building"
    check Sal's post again,
    he had it right.

    I just think he is misguided to trust obama much more than that.
    ;)
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  • El_KabongEl_Kabong Posts: 4,141
    my2hands wrote:
    is Barack Obama... that is the flat out reality of the situation... realize it

    wow, now that was some great dissertation!!! you sold me!
    standin above the crowd
    he had a voice that was strong and loud and
    i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
    eager to identify with
    someone above the crowd
    someone who seemed to feel the same
    someone prepared to lead the way
  • my2handsmy2hands Posts: 17,117
    How the hell would we even pay for McCain's plans? He's knows it's bullshit. There's no way we can keep this war going much longer.

    so he asks you to explain how mccain, clinton, and obama represent the same us foreign policy and use of war... and you respond by saying hopw will mccain pay for it and the war will have to end soon anyway?

    which is it? ;)
  • my2handsmy2hands Posts: 17,117
    Nevermind wrote:
    This thread title made me laugh. Were building permanent bases there. We are going to be stuck there till way after we all expire.

    there is a major candiate speaking out against the permanent presence and bases in iraq... his name is barack obama, you might want to check him out
  • bootlegger10bootlegger10 Posts: 16,054
    JD Sal wrote:
    Why is Obama a dipshit if he was anti-surge?

    And I disagree. He's a politican after all, but I think he's the most sincere candidate in a while and I think he will do everything possible to end this war.

    Except he just keeps voting for it in Congress right now. Real sincere.
  • bootlegger10bootlegger10 Posts: 16,054
    my2hands wrote:
    there is a major candiate speaking out against the permanent presence and bases in iraq... his name is barack obama, you might want to check him out

    You are naive.
  • my2handsmy2hands Posts: 17,117
    10 years is the new estimate now?
    that wasnt an estimate... that was my trying to point out that unless obama wins we will be in oraq for the next 10 years developing a permanent presence... this is the reality if the situation... he was gainst it from jumpstreet and he is the only current option on the table to end it
    I think we'll see the same amount of war with Hillary, Obama or even McCain

    what makes you say that?
  • my2handsmy2hands Posts: 17,117
    You are naive.

    :rolleyes:
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