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WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-30-09 01:07 PM Original message |
"It will cost one million dollars a year to support one soldier for one year in Afghanistan" |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-30-09 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
1. Gotta spend it to make it! |
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glen123098 (419 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-30-09 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
2. Its kind of strange |
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mother earth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-01-09 08:15 PM Response to Reply #2 |
23. Following the money trail is always the eye opener. We |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-30-09 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
3. God forbid that the money be spent on anything useful! |
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derby378 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-30-09 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
4. Meanwhile, "the other side" can fund an insurgent for far, far less per year |
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Major Hogwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-30-09 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
5. And when the soldiers come home --- they will be forgotten and left jobless and homeless |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-30-09 02:09 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Yes, b/c those sending them to kill & die don't actually give a shit about them |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-30-09 02:38 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. WWII vets?? |
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Major Hogwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-01-09 01:20 AM Response to Reply #8 |
17. Flaming? Those are just the facts, Jack. |
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spoony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-30-09 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
6. Just wow. k/r |
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Auggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-30-09 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
9. Amend title to read "...one soldier and many war profiteers..." |
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NecklyTyler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-01-09 06:08 AM Response to Reply #9 |
21. The defense contractors are still pulling the strings even after the election |
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FarLeftFist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-30-09 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
10. OR $60,000 a year to send one to an Ivy League college. |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-30-09 07:20 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Nobody listened with Jesse Jackson made that argument about sending people to college |
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shadowknows69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-30-09 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
11. Funny that the soldier probably sees only about 30K of that million in his paycheck |
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keep_it_real (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-30-09 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
12. A lot of that money will go to private contractors in Afghanistan |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-30-09 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
13. Oh come on! |
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lpbk2713 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-30-09 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
14. I hope to hell we squeeze Haliburton out of the picture as much as possible. |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-30-09 06:30 PM Response to Original message |
15. Is there any way I could arrange to have them just send me a million |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-01-09 04:16 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. During the Viet Nam War someone suggested that |
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NecklyTyler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-01-09 06:45 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. During the Viet Nam War someone else suggested that |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-01-09 03:51 AM Response to Original message |
18. what do the widows get..?? |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-01-09 04:36 AM Response to Original message |
20. check out what the troops request on anysoldier.com |
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branders seine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-01-09 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
24. it's just Unocal externalizing their costs |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-01-09 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
25. And they get their measly $25k a year |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 07:46 AM Response to Original message |
26. Hopefully Congress will enact the legislation where we will pay for this war with |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 07:47 AM Response to Original message |
27. I can see a mission is Afghanistan |
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