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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 01:36 PM Original message |
And how much money will we pour into Libya when the damage is done? |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
1. they are going to pay us back with oil. |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 01:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Yes like the Iraqis, which is why gas in $.99 a gallon now... |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 02:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
11. There's been no indication that the "opposition" don't expect to pay |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 02:30 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Right, you've been assured by the White House and Gaddafi.... |
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dennis4868 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
2. There used to be a time when... |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 02:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
15. +1...nt |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 02:40 PM Response to Reply #15 |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 03:06 PM Response to Reply #15 |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 04:47 PM Response to Reply #15 |
38. Uncalled for |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 03:02 PM Response to Reply #2 |
23. so the families that are homeless and hungry HERE matter less than empire building? |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 03:26 PM Response to Reply #23 |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:00 PM Response to Reply #23 |
48. It's not an either / or. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:13 PM Response to Reply #23 |
56. So, I'm a "war ,monger", I have a lot in common with Buchanan, etc. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:01 PM Response to Reply #2 |
49. Many of them have toned down their rhetoric as they've become educated. |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 02:57 PM Response to Reply #2 |
75. So very well said! |
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Newest Reality (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
4. And then, |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
5. It'll be regime change and nation-building all over again. |
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OregonBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
6. So is it your contention that we should have sat by and watched while the rebels were slaughtered? |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 02:00 PM Response to Reply #6 |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 02:19 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Look, I am poor and homeless, and *I* am grateful for the action taken in Libya. |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 02:24 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Why shouldn't we put the needs of our citizens first? |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 02:33 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. NO.... it isn't an either or... we can do BOTH |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 02:36 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Then revolt and I will join you......... |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 02:41 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. I have been revolting (!) ~~chortle~~ And I HAVE asked others to join me. |
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Upton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 03:36 PM Response to Reply #10 |
27. "PLEASE, stop using us in this way!" |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 03:38 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. I have just as much right to speak as you do. Sorry that bothers you. |
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Upton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 03:40 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Sure you have a right to speak... |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 03:47 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. "Look, I am poor and homeless, and *I* am grateful for the action taken in Libya." |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:53 PM Response to Reply #29 |
66. More so than you'll ever do. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:56 PM Response to Reply #66 |
67. Whoops. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 08:57 PM Response to Reply #7 |
47. Complete straw man. One can show concern for poor here, and those being slaughtered elsewhere. |
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nosmokes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 02:37 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. There are other responses and options besides the military. |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 03:15 PM Response to Reply #18 |
76. unfortunately, sometimes the only way to stop bullets and bombs is with the |
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bhikkhu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
8. As an oil producer, they have a good economic base to manage by themselves |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 02:16 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. A LOT of Republican plants are still in place around Washington |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:05 PM Response to Reply #8 |
52. Correct, international loans will be the likely outcome. |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
16. I am hoping that the Libyans will step up to the plate |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 03:44 PM Response to Reply #16 |
30. Do you KNOW who these "Libyan Rebels" are? |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:03 PM Response to Reply #30 |
50. They're freedom fighters who are welcomed in every city that they liberate from Gaddafi. |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:24 PM Response to Reply #50 |
57. Yeah....Right.... |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:29 PM Response to Reply #57 |
58. It does when the tyrant is truly evil. Sorry. |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:44 PM Response to Reply #58 |
61. Yet.. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:46 PM Response to Reply #61 |
63. Watch carefully, OK? Because you're going to be in for one fucking hell of a surprise. |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:57 PM Response to Reply #58 |
68. Maybe....Maybe not....and maybe not yet. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 10:11 PM Response to Reply #68 |
70. There is no "rebel army." They're mostly civilians who have taken up arms. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 10:20 PM Response to Reply #68 |
74. If you turn out to be completely wrong, will you acknowledge it? |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:57 PM Response to Reply #30 |
69. Yeah, I heard that on Faux. |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 10:14 PM Response to Reply #69 |
71. Oh?...and did you hear THIS from today's London Telegraph? |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 10:17 PM Response to Reply #71 |
72. This has been debunked on the other thread, but then.... |
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OregonBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 04:41 PM Response to Reply #16 |
37. And the rebels fighting the regime not only asked us, they begged us to do something. What should we |
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nosmokes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 05:01 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. They're begging us in Syria,Bahrain,Palestine, Yemen,Jordan and a score of other |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:03 PM Response to Reply #40 |
51. Syria, Bahrain, Palestine, Yemen, Jordan do not have their leaders calling for the extermination... |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
19. The sky is the limit. |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 02:43 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Money we borrowed from China |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 03:50 PM Response to Reply #22 |
33. "more people want to fight wars than help their own" |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 03:53 PM Response to Reply #33 |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 08:11 PM Response to Reply #34 |
44. You know that I am NO a "war supporter", and you KNOW why Libya and not other countries, |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:06 PM Response to Reply #34 |
53. DU has become, after people researched, supporters of the Arab Spring, and Libyan revolution. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:08 PM Response to Reply #22 |
54. People who feel for the impoverished at home have every right to feel for the weak elsewhere. |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 03:24 PM Response to Reply #22 |
77. you don't seem to be getting it- Bobbolink is pointing out something |
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Upton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 03:19 PM Response to Original message |
25. K&R |
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Modern_Matthew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
31. Let them put it back together themselves. We've already done way too much. nt |
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Iterate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 04:30 PM Response to Original message |
35. You're right at a basic level, |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:10 PM Response to Reply #35 |
55. That really says it all, and says it eloquently. As I watch the videos, and particularly the one |
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Iterate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:34 PM Response to Reply #55 |
59. Or maybe a different "us" and "them" |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:42 PM Response to Reply #59 |
60. Yes, there is that side, also... The Powerful (them) vs the rest of us. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:47 PM Response to Reply #35 |
64. +1, deserves it's own post. Will go ignored. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 04:36 PM Response to Original message |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
39. Unrec...nt |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 05:08 PM Response to Reply #39 |
41. ......... |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 05:10 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. ... |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 05:18 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. One day the war will end....... |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 08:27 PM Response to Original message |
45. Depends on how much they can steal from other areas. |
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lib2DaBone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
46. What about Syria... CIA Alqueida Fighters...? |
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Iterate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:50 PM Response to Reply #46 |
65. The ones who did that are dead. |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
62. How much money? Just assume it will be way more than we're willing to spend here |
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killbotfactory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-26-11 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
73. We have frozen $39 billion of Gaddafi's money. n/t |
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