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n2doc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 07:17 AM Original message |
Toon: The Trillion-dollar sacred bull in the room |
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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 07:27 AM Response to Original message |
1. 1000 Recommends! |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 07:28 AM Response to Original message |
2. Now THAT is good. |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 07:30 AM Response to Original message |
3. Clinton did a good job at taking away the cash from that animal.... |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 08:07 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. He did not, he reduced the number of people in the Military, but other spending was maintained. |
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Bosso 63 (759 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 08:49 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. "Why do we NEED 12 CVN' s?", is my pet peeve. |
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Sherman A1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 03:09 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. Precisely |
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SergeStorms (248 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 03:59 AM Response to Reply #11 |
43. An Eisenhower Republican...... |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 04:17 PM Response to Reply #10 |
22. Thank you for that assesment. Good to know all of that. |
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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 09:17 PM Response to Reply #10 |
32. Clinton was simply the best President we ever had. |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 10:12 PM Response to Reply #10 |
39. CVNs are tactically better than CVs |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 07:58 PM Response to Reply #3 |
28. Do you have any sources, links or evidence that Clinton did what you suggest? nm |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 07:49 AM Response to Original message |
4. A bull that shits jobs, btw, both in and out of the military and not all "defense" related either. |
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Tansy_Gold (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 08:00 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. If we didn't have the MIC. . . . |
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Tansy_Gold (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 08:00 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. If we didn't have the MIC. . . . |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 08:03 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Yeah, it's just that being out there looking for work in a red state has me down. The best person |
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Tansy_Gold (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 10:04 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. It's ALWAYS been about stuff other than your qualifications |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 10:31 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Well, I guess I have been thinking it was also about the quality of my work. Stupid me! |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 09:26 PM Response to Reply #4 |
35. Think of all the really terrific jobs we could create with that money . . . |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 07:53 AM Response to Original message |
5. Don't mess with the sanctity of the corporate-military marriage |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 09:29 PM Response to Reply #5 |
37. +1000% -- and we now have to include oil as a "national security" issue, obviously . .. |
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Soylent Brice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 08:05 AM Response to Original message |
9. K&R |
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Gus Gusterson (9 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
12. "Disastrous Rise of Misplaced Power" |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
15. Recommended. nt |
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branders seine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
16. End the overseas occupations NOW! |
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slay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
17. K&R - End the wars NOW. |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
19. It is killing us. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
20. And, the bullshit produced consists of a limitless number of bogeymen we need "protecting" from. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
21. +1 trillion and counting! nt |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 04:36 PM Response to Original message |
23. K & R nt |
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lame54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 05:08 PM Response to Original message |
24. It's so fucking obvious... |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
25. It's the third rail of American politics |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 08:02 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. Ron Paul and Barney Frank are doing just that |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 06:55 AM Response to Reply #25 |
49. Alan Grayson |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
26. Those guys in Congress are pretty clever... |
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wordpix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 09:28 PM Response to Reply #26 |
36. well, it IS the military industrial Congressional complex, after all |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 06:39 PM Response to Original message |
27. K&R. I agree. |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
30. Want to fix the debt problem ...reduce the fucking defense spending! |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 09:15 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. I totally agree, war is dumb, I think it is far better to travel and |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 09:19 PM Response to Original message |
33. +10000000000% . . . money and freedom at stake . . . for the world!! |
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wordpix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
34. Yeah and that bull never gives any milk or cream, either |
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LawnKorn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 05:51 AM Response to Reply #34 |
46. It gave us the Global Positioning Satellite system |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 06:12 AM Response to Reply #46 |
47. indeed. and imagine the advances we could make if such ingenuity and enterprise |
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AlbertCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 10:08 PM Response to Original message |
38. The MIC is just welfare for government contractors. |
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CLANG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-13-10 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
40. So true, so true... yeah.... true |
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inna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 01:36 AM Response to Original message |
41. Instead, "defense" budget keeps growing and growing... |
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Norrin Radd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 02:27 AM Response to Original message |
42. kr |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 04:56 AM Response to Original message |
44. No shit |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 04:59 AM Response to Original message |
45. The U.S. Cannot Kick Militarism. |
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badgerpup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 06:18 AM Response to Original message |
48. K & R |
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booley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-14-10 09:58 AM Response to Original message |
50. Unfortunately the MIC knows how to manipulate voters too |
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