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Luminous Animal

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31. Ah. The White Man's burden. A universal counterbalance to what?

Reply to ConservativeDemocrat (Reply #29)

Sun Oct 19, 2014, 11:18 PM

Oct 2014

And please, tell us why we should care if Egypt would to spend more on weapons if we decreased our spending.

P.S. Noted. No comment on my previous post.

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It pays the right people. DirkGently Oct 2014 #4

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Terror! AQ! Terror! ISIS! 99th_Monkey Oct 2014 #10

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It's time to end the self-inflicted wars. CJCRANE Oct 2014 #2

It's time to treat those who incite these wars as traitors Man from Pickens Oct 2014 #15

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Creepy! Faux pas Oct 2014 #41

yep!! oldandhappy Oct 2014 #8

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Tom Lehrer figured this out in the 60s tclambert Oct 2014 #11

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kpete, you are firing up DU with important OP's. woo me with science Oct 2014 #12

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But..but...we're nobly doing it for their own good! Tierra_y_Libertad Oct 2014 #16

Meanwhile, back in reality ConservativeDemocrat Oct 2014 #17

Meanwhile, in reality reality. Gallopp/WIN poll: U.S. greatest threat to world peace Luminous Animal Oct 2014 #18

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The difference between a tyrant and a savior is how they're viewed... ConservativeDemocrat Oct 2014 #29

Ah. The White Man's burden. A universal counterbalance to what? Luminous Animal Oct 2014 #31

Of course not. Poster still lives in the Reagan Era. Rex Oct 2014 #33

I live in the Obama era ConservativeDemocrat Oct 2014 #40

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, blah blah blah. Luminous Animal Oct 2014 #35

I know this will come as a shock to anti-American haters ConservativeDemocrat Oct 2014 #37

Nice apology for the MIC. Rex Oct 2014 #32

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This will piss off the authoritarians to no end. Rex Oct 2014 #26

Global genocide :-( Dont call me Shirley Oct 2014 #27

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