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  • Prince Of Dorkness
    Prince Of Dorkness Posts: 3,763
    well... if we're not pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the bottomless pit of a pointless war... maybe we can invest it in some actual infrastructure and work here at home?

    Maybe if we aren't wasting our money shifting around the rubble in a third world country that we're bombing back into the stone age, we could build more schools... invest in companies and jobs and the future of our young people as something other than IED targets?
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  • MotoDC
    MotoDC Posts: 947
    Prince Of Dorkness wrote:
    well... if we're not pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the bottomless pit of a pointless war... maybe we can invest it in some actual infrastructure and work here at home?

    Maybe if we aren't wasting our money shifting around the rubble in a third world country that we're bombing back into the stone age, we could build more schools... invest in companies and jobs and the future of our young people as something other than IED targets?

    Agreed -- and I'm just jumping in to the 17 page thread, so forgive me -- but isn't the "war" over? All we're doing now is trying to help them fix some of the shit we smashed. Not terribly successfully, if the news is to be believed, but nation building is hardsauce afterall.
  • Prince Of Dorkness
    Prince Of Dorkness Posts: 3,763
    MotoDC wrote:
    Prince Of Dorkness wrote:
    well... if we're not pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the bottomless pit of a pointless war... maybe we can invest it in some actual infrastructure and work here at home?

    Maybe if we aren't wasting our money shifting around the rubble in a third world country that we're bombing back into the stone age, we could build more schools... invest in companies and jobs and the future of our young people as something other than IED targets?

    Agreed -- and I'm just jumping in to the 17 page thread, so forgive me -- but isn't the "war" over? All we're doing now is trying to help them fix some of the shit we smashed. Not terribly successfully, if the news is to be believed, but nation building is hardsauce afterall.

    In Iraq, yes.

    Afghanistan is another thing entirely. I won't try to pretend that I'm the foremost authority on wars or international topics, but I think it's been known for quite some time that staying in Afghanistan is a waste of time and money, energy and lives. We should have given up long ago.

    And... why are we still in Vietnam and Germany and South Korea?

    I mean, why is it that we're still in these places? It's not like Germany really needs the American military, do they?
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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    keeponrockin wrote:
    pandora wrote:
    . He has refused meetings, invitations, policy making,
    relationship building because he is off limits in the evening ....
    Is there proof of this? Articles, etc..? With links?

    no there isn't. with each passing post her claims of what he's doing/not doing are getting more and more outlandish, and frankly, obviously completely made up.

    pandora, show us proof that I'm wrong that you're not just making up all this shit. because everyone here, R or D, know that what you are saying is not just embelleshment, it's complete lies.
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  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,598
    cincybearcat wrote:

    Yet again, does anyone think a president can't do his or her job from anywhere?

    This. Bush is accused of taking the longest vacation in the history of the US Presidency, Obama is accused of taking the most vacations in the history of the US Presidency. Both may be technically true but neither is very important. POTUS never gets to take a "vacation". They just get to work somewhere else.
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