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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Arab countries pick up the tab for a strike in Syria
Doesn't that make our military mercenary?
Doesn't that mean that the citizens who *volunteered* to defend our country are being rented out?
eissa
(4,238 posts)leftstreet
(36,116 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)John Kerry's mouth is where reason goes to die.
karynnj
(59,506 posts)ie the Obama administration REFUSED the offer of money for regime change. The fact is that he was ASKED by Congressman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen whether the wealthy Arab nations would help the US with the cost. This was not something he just said out of the clear blue sky. Should he have lied or not told the truth to Congress?
Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)We were essentially a rent-a-cop for Kuwait under Bush the Elder.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)were the biggest contributors, with Kuwait paying some 15+ billion in cash:
http://people.psych.cornell.edu/~fhoran/gulf/GW_cost/GW_payments.html
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)Thanks for posting that.
karynnj
(59,506 posts)It however was a war for oil - as Senator Lugar said at a SFRC hearing - and it started the whole mess that led to today.
Erose999
(5,624 posts)The Link
(757 posts)Hutzpa
(11,461 posts)for all the wrong reasons.
I sure hope they're not that desperate to pull sh*t like this.
OMG!!