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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-10 09:13 PM
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Where is our military?
Why hasn't the National Guard and every other available military person been sent to the BP disaster to help with oil booms and cleanup?

:shrug:
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Incitatus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-10 09:13 PM
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1. Iraq and Afghanistan
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-10 10:50 PM
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11. Where they are useing fuel bought from BP by your friendly Military Industrial Complex
It's a lose/lose situation for US Military/US citizens
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Mind_your_head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-10 09:15 PM
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2. They're very busy chasing boondoggles in Iraq & Afghanistan. eom
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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-10 09:16 PM
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3. Organized militia is occupied in Iraq & Afghanistan. Obama could activate the "unorganized militia"
and that includes all males, with some exceptions, between 17 to 45.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-10 09:17 PM
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4. 8,000 miles away.
where they're really needed.:crazy:
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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-10 09:18 PM
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5. Bush startedf sending national guards..
and when Dems complained Repugs ignored..
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FarCenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-10 09:25 PM
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6. In Okinawa, deposing the Japanese Prime Minister
We've suceeded in achieving regime change in Japan.
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AsahinaKimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-10 09:54 PM
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8. MASAKA!
Edited on Tue Jun-01-10 09:57 PM by AsahinaKimi

それ は まさか ほんとう の はなし じゃ ない でしょ ね?
じょだん じゃないよ!

:P

(you're joking ne?)

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doc03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-10 09:39 PM
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7. They are all over the f--ing world, we still have 58000 in
Edited on Tue Jun-01-10 09:51 PM by doc03
Germany 65 years after the war. We have troops on over 800 installations in 135 countries.
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-10 10:10 PM
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9. Unwisely deployed around the world in pointless exercises of
imperialism. Hey, in case no one has noticed, the American Empire is just about in shambles.
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L0oniX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-10 10:48 PM
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10. Busy spending all our money.
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