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dixiegrrrrl

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2. Of course it was worth it!!!

Reply to phantom power (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 10:43 AM

Feb 2013

Just ask any military contractor.
Just ask any oil company which won subsidized rights to pump out Iraq oil.
Just ask any companies which want to mine the mother lode of uranium in Mali.
Just ask any of the hundreds of Homeland Security/TSA/Border Patrol private contractors who are getting rich
on the story of "Terror Terror Terror" perpetuated for over 12 years now in this country.

Was it worth it to you and me?
Who cares, we have no influence on US policy, really, when it comes down to it.
Not now, anyway.
Maybe...some day...if enough of us have REALLY had enough.....maybe.

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The US has already borrowed $2tn to finance the Afghanistan and Iraq wars [View all] phantom power Feb 2013 OP

Such discussion is almost absent from our national discourse. Lasher Feb 2013 #1

Of course it was worth it!!! dixiegrrrrl Feb 2013 #2

$2Tn to lose another war. At least Pyrrhus got a victory, however hollow. Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2013 #3