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Tue May-03-11 10:18 AM Original message |
So it turns out we don't need to drop bombs and level entire buildings to take out terrorists |
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Tue May-03-11 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
1. Unfortunately, the time and cost required for an operation |
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Tue May-03-11 10:56 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. But is that really true? We spend hundreds of billions on our military each year. |
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Tue May-03-11 11:01 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. The thing is, you see, is that such operations |
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Tue May-03-11 11:19 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. I think you are making assumptions (just as I am) we don't know what kind of training this took |
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Tue May-03-11 11:25 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Actually, we do know. In the first place training of these special |
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Tue May-03-11 11:36 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. You're saying these special teams are killing terrorists all the time and we never hear about it? |
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Tue May-03-11 11:40 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. No, I'm saying that we don't know what they do, |
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Tue May-03-11 11:47 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. We know what they did in this case, and it showed they are perfectly capable of these operations |
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MineralMan
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Tue May-03-11 01:04 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Have you not read any of the accounts? Truly? |
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Tue May-03-11 01:51 PM Response to Reply #22 |
31. Being done with the discussion doesn't magically make up for the lack of argument on your part |
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Tue May-03-11 12:05 PM Response to Reply #9 |
21. For the trillions of dollars we spend on war we could Afford |
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MineralMan
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Tue May-03-11 01:21 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. No thanks. I won't play. |
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Tue May-03-11 01:27 PM Response to Reply #23 |
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Tue May-03-11 01:44 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. No, you know nothing of the sort. |
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Tue May-03-11 01:47 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Good Bye! |
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Tue May-03-11 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
2. Apples and oranges. |
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Tue May-03-11 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
3. The U.S. Was Also Very Lucky |
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Tue May-03-11 10:33 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. These opportunities seem to never happen, probably because we refuse to make them happen |
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Tue May-03-11 10:41 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. ... not to mention, spending gazillions of dollars on "Shock and Awe" ... |
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Tue May-03-11 11:44 AM Response to Reply #4 |
17. Huh? "...risk on our soldiers ... is unacceptable." ?????????? Where have you been |
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Tue May-03-11 11:48 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Bullshit. More often than not we level entire towns and buildings in order to not send our soldiers |
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Tue May-03-11 12:05 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. k, I understand now. Of course that's true. Perhaps this is why so many of our soldiers are suicidal |
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Tue May-03-11 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
5. The war on terror |
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Tue May-03-11 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
7. Exactly as Senator Kerry said it should be done when he was running for President. |
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Romulox
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Tue May-03-11 11:06 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Too bad he didn't have the kind of clarity on Iraq though... |
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Tue May-03-11 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
13. K&RRRRRRRR~ |
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Tue May-03-11 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
15. Raises the question of who "won." OBL is dead. America is drowning in costly, soul-destroying war. |
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Tue May-03-11 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
25. Or, go broke losing unnecessary wars so that presidents can look tough. |
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Tue May-03-11 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
26. The .mil originally wanted to blow up Bin Laden's compound with B-2 bombers. |
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Tue May-03-11 01:49 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Have not heard this account, do you have any links by any chance? |
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Tue May-03-11 01:51 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Here's one. |
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Tue May-03-11 01:54 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. ok, but that says their concern was not causilties. It was the concern of a lack of DNA |
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