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dreamnightwind

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72. Interesting story

Thu Jan 10, 2013, 03:24 PM

Jan 2013

"But, it did make me realize that there were some of them out there that totally hated our being in their country, even if we had come 6,000 miles to keep their asses from being invaded by So Damn Insane. Not to mention "restore 'democracy' to Kuwait." Hah! That one always cracked me up."

This part also cracks me up: "we had come 6,000 miles to keep their asses from being invaded by So Damn Insane". We usually spin opposition leaders as insane, or unstable, or "more dangerous than Hitler", etc., to justify an invasion. And somehow I doubt that keeping Saudi Arabia safe from him is why you were sent those 6,000 miles (sorry you had to go through that). Anyway, that's too much kool-aid for me to drink.

But we agree on the important point here, that our presence on Saudi soil put a target on our backs.

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