Jimi Ray Clapton
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Reg: 09-03-07
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06-22-14 08:53 AM - Post#169265
655,000 human beings lost there lives. That is a staggering number.
$1.7 trillion and counting.
The Staggering Cost Of The Last Decade's US War In Iraq — In Numbers
But yeah... we're spending millions to force accountability with Benghazi, or IRS targeting. Which I would be fine with if it weren't for this ten year old pink elephant being virtually ignored... the gift that keeps on giving.
*655,000* dead human beings - a majority of which were civilians. And no one seems to want to talk about it. Not to mention force accountability with those wealthy, untouchable persons who are directly responsible for these crimes against humanity.
I don't get it.
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civicminded
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Loc: Lone Star State
Reg: 04-24-02
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06-22-14 03:03 PM - Post#169272
In response to Jimi Ray Clapton
Well we should only talk briefly about things people will disagree about. This source suggests that your death numbers are people that would not have died had we not been there. That's gobbledeguk. OK now about the current Iraq problem which is more important, what is the answer?
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readingu
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Reg: 02-08-04
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06-22-14 06:10 PM - Post#169276
In response to civicminded
i don't get it
I don't get anything any more. Jerks on the left Jerks on the right. US in the middle. Turn of the internet for a year and our world may evolve a bit slower and wiser.
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Maringa
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Reg: 11-06-08
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06-23-14 04:13 PM - Post#169299
In response to readingu
People are going to die there by the hundreds of thousands over the next two to three years whether the US is involved or not...whether Obama or future democratic/republican president does anything or not...Both fodder for both parties for years to come...
Syria, and Egypt, where we didn't invade, are quickly trying to catch up with Iraq...
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PartyOfEight
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Reg: 12-09-07
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06-26-14 07:07 AM - Post#169395
In response to Maringa
Say what you will about Saddam Hussein, he was a moderate Muslim who put checks on the religious zealots who would attempt to turn Iraq into a extremist religious region. He held back Iran as well. As bad as he was, he was better than the expansion of this extreme bunch spreading through Iraq today. Unfortunately, our presence there has fostered this growth of extremism. The same would happen here if the US were invaded by a powerful Muslim country. Churches would radicalize, Christians would radicalize and kill by any means available in the name of Jesus. Hard to even guess when this will finally resolve itself.
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell.
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