One TRILLION Dollars Wasted In The Middle East. What Could We Have Done With That Money?

kpete

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Thu Jun-03-10 09:05 AM
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One TRILLION Dollars Wasted In The Middle East. What Could We Have Done With That Money?

One TRILLION Dollars Wasted In The Middle East. What Could We Have Done With That Money?

http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/one-trillion-dollars-wasted-middle-ea

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slipslidingaway

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Thu Jun-03-10 09:09 AM
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1. knr - Kucinich made this point to Congress before the IWR vote :( n/t

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midnight

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Thu Jun-03-10 09:12 AM
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2. "Personally, I opted to pay for four years of college for a million students,

fund the clean up of the gulf oil spill, hire one million elementary school teachers and offer health care for 10 million Americans and guess what? I still didn't reach that one trillion mark." A better use for this money than killing children and their parents.

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The2ndWheel

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Thu Jun-03-10 09:17 AM
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3. Just create another trillion

Hit that 0 key on the keyboard a few more times. It's not like these numbers mean anything anyway.

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Turbineguy

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Thu Jun-03-10 09:18 AM
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4. We could have given

Edited on Thu Jun-03-10 09:18 AM by Turbineguy

$18,000 to every idiot who voted for Bush in 2000, not to vote for him.

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jgraz

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Thu Jun-03-10 09:25 AM
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5. We could have bought back our own Senators from Corporate America

I hear you can get a group rate.

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sandbar

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Thu Jun-03-10 09:28 AM
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6. I sincerely doubt that a trilliion would do the job.

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jgraz

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Thu Jun-03-10 09:34 AM
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7. Are you kidding? These guys are CHEAP.

Throw a few $2300 contributions at them and they're yours for the taking.

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glitch

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Thu Jun-03-10 09:45 AM
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8. We could have hired real scientists and engineers to enforce environmental regulations

and most likely avoided the BP-Halliburton-Transocean Gulf Oil Catastrophe.

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Scuba

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Thu Jun-03-10 10:39 AM
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9. Tax breaks for Big Oil??

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FBI_Un_Sub

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Thu Jun-03-10 12:50 PM
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10. We could have funded a massive Manhattan Project

for zero carbon foot print renewable fuels. Instead, the Trillion went to make Iraq and Afghanistan "safe for Big Oil."

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Quantess

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Thu Jun-03-10 03:30 PM
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11. That is the trillion dollar question.

:kick:

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