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El Mimbreno

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11. Terrorists - $444,000 each

Reply to still_one (Reply #7)

Fri Apr 14, 2017, 09:31 AM

Apr 2017

$16 million bomb to take out 36 terrorists. Estimates of ISIS strength are all over the place, but if we accept a number of 20,000, They can all be wiped out for only $8.9 billion. Yeah, right.

Mob hitmen would be cheaper.

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What the F***! Are we really supposed to believe the MOBUS video? [View all] lunatica Apr 2017 OP

surely very exciting for Brian Williams to wax enthusiastically over, I suspect. NRaleighLiberal Apr 2017 #1

The film is only seconds long lunatica Apr 2017 #2

Same folks who still swoon at the special effects from the original Star Trek TV shows. n/t CincyDem Apr 2017 #5

LOL! lunatica Apr 2017 #6

Hey those effects are AMAZING hurple Apr 2017 #8

Welcome to my world. old guy Apr 2017 #9

according to afghanistan, it killed 36 people. spanone Apr 2017 #3

Do you believe the film and what our generals are claiming? lunatica Apr 2017 #4

i don't believe anything from this administration. they lie like the boss. spanone Apr 2017 #15

+1,000 malaise Apr 2017 #21

Even assuming that a good number of ISIL members were killed, why would anyone assume still_one Apr 2017 #7

Terrorists - $444,000 each El Mimbreno Apr 2017 #11

and the odds these ISIS people were going to harm any of us treestar Apr 2017 #19

It is suspicious. yallerdawg Apr 2017 #10

36 isn't a lot. Bradical79 Apr 2017 #12

It all looks like stock film Delmette2.0 Apr 2017 #13

The bomb was most likely dropped from a c130 Jeroen Apr 2017 #16

Looks like a 2naSalit Apr 2017 #14

One only needs to read The Pentagon Papers BSdetect Apr 2017 #17

Oh yeah! I should have included them in my post. lunatica Apr 2017 #18

Kick lunatica Apr 2017 #20

Damn, you are so right. I was in high school OldHippieChick Apr 2017 #22