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dreamnightwind

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7. Good point about the Tea Partiers

Reply to Blue_Tires (Reply #4)

Sat Jan 28, 2012, 12:10 AM

Jan 2012

They have no problem spending money on the military.

This looks more to me like a resource grab than a contractor cash grab. Well, not a resource grab but giving military backing to uninterrupted resource extraction.

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Report: Pentagon plans floating military base in Mideast [View all] Judi Lynn Jan 2012 OP

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I think Gigibagigi Jan 2012 #8

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Not isolationism. ronnie624 Jan 2012 #17

Oh I agree we should try to work harder at cooperating with countries however this isnt cstanleytech Jan 2012 #19

you can pay for it fascisthunter Jan 2012 #13

Cute, to bad for you though that you decided to insert a smartass comment and ignore cstanleytech Jan 2012 #15

the coolest thing about the entire thing is onethatcares Jan 2012 #2

Perhaps they can rechristen it The Titanic Orrex Jan 2012 #3

Naturally, there isn't a single math-challenged teabag congresscritter Blue_Tires Jan 2012 #4

Good point about the Tea Partiers dreamnightwind Jan 2012 #7

Mm. Gigibagigi Jan 2012 #9

Wait! We have them already... they are called The Sushi Bandit Jan 2012 #5

+1 beat me to it. Joe Shlabotnik Jan 2012 #6

I posted about this on the other DU site............ TheDebbieDee Jan 2012 #11

Time for some education, tsunamis have almost zero effect on ships at sea only when their in port or cstanleytech Jan 2012 #16

Might be a fairly easy target for a submarine attack. DCBob Jan 2012 #12

talk about power going to our country's head fascisthunter Jan 2012 #14

'Ponce'? There's an unfortunate name for a ship muriel_volestrangler Jan 2012 #18

From the wiki site on it cstanleytech Jan 2012 #20