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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts) Mon Dec 7, 2015, 09:13 AM Dec 2015

War Drums Are A Beating. GOP And Neocons Are Beating Them.

Voting GOP looks like it will be voting for invasion of the Middle East and war. The GOP feverish to send combat US combat division to Iraq and Syria. And besides that go back into Afghanistan with more divisions. The problem is that where would the troops be stationed. Where would the bases be to operate from. And who would allow us to land and where.

As far as the cost a paying for such war seniors, poor people, food stamp, veterans recipients et all would have to cough up any federal benefits to make war. Where would the trillion dollars come from? Who kin would you send into that quagmire. Then how long would we have to stay to stabilize and build a new society?

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War Drums Are A Beating. GOP And Neocons Are Beating Them. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Dec 2015 OP

Joe Scarborough and his crew have been speaking for weeks about where the American people are on merrily Dec 2015 #1

Where? Halliburton and the US Taxpayer. Octafish Dec 2015 #2

Just exactly WHERE are we supposed to go??? nruthie Dec 2015 #3

Sometimes we need to listen very carefully to what people say Baitball Blogger Dec 2015 #4

merrily

(45,251 posts)

1. Joe Scarborough and his crew have been speaking for weeks about where the American people are on

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Mon Dec 7, 2015, 09:25 AM

Dec 2015

this. Apparently, we're not only ready to go to war--any war, anywhere--without any endgame, but we are also dying for the US government to take away what's left of the Bill of Rights. I didn't realize that was where I am, but, if baby-faced Willie Geist says that's where I am, who am I to feel otherwise?

Octafish

(55,745 posts)

2. Where? Halliburton and the US Taxpayer.

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Mon Dec 7, 2015, 09:40 AM

Dec 2015

Cheney, as SecDef for Poppy Bush, made it that way. History unmentioned in Corporate Owned News and Slackademia:

Cheney's Multi-Million Dollar Revolving Door

News: As Bush Sr.'s secretary of defense, Dick Cheney steered millions of dollars in government business to a private military contractor -- whose parent company just happened to give him a high-paying job after he left the government.

By Robert Bryce
Mother Jones
August 2, 2000

EXCERPT...

In 1992, the Pentagon, then under Cheney's direction, paid Texas-based Brown & Root Services $3.9 million to produce a classified report detailing how private companies -- like itself -- could help provide logistics for American troops in potential war zones around the world. BRS specializes in such work; from 1962 to 1972, for instance, the company worked in the former South Vietnam building roads, landing strips, harbors, and military bases. Later in 1992, the Pentagon gave the company an additional $5 million to update its report. That same year, BRS won a massive, five-year logistics contract from the US Army Corps of Engineers to work alongside American GIs in places like Zaire, Haiti, Somalia, Kosovo, the Balkans, and Saudi Arabia.

After Bill Clinton's election cost Cheney his government job, he wound up in 1995 as CEO of Halliburton Company, the Dallas-based oil services giant -- which just happens to own Brown & Root Services. Since then, Cheney has collected more than $10 million in salary and stock payments from the company. In addition, he is currently the company's largest individual shareholder, holding stock and options worth another $40 million. Those holdings have undoubtedly been made more valuable by the ever-more lucrative contracts BRS continues to score with the Pentagon.

Between 1992 and 1999, the Pentagon paid BRS more than $1.2 billion for its work in trouble spots around the globe. In May of 1999, the US Army Corps of Engineers re-enlisted the company's help in the Balkans, giving it a new five-year contract worth $731 million.

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http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2000/08/cheney.html

Mr. Other Priorities' main qualifications for Secretary of Defense seems to have been his voting record in support of War Inc.

nruthie

(466 posts)

3. Just exactly WHERE are we supposed to go???

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Mon Dec 7, 2015, 10:54 AM

Dec 2015

Everywhere?

Baitball Blogger

(46,770 posts)

4. Sometimes we need to listen very carefully to what people say

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Mon Dec 7, 2015, 11:00 AM

Dec 2015

and if we do, we can just begin to see how warped our world is.

For example, George Bush II and Iraq. Not that I don't believe he had his own agenda, but in response to why he went into Iraq he said that people wanted an immediate response. PEOPLE WANTED AN IMMEDIATE RESPONSE.

And, not just any people. But the people that he thinks counts in this country.

That's how stupid it gets around here. The snake eating its own tail.

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