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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 07:42 PM Original message |
If you can credibly explain why we are STILL in Afghanistan or Iraq, I will pay your way in the next |
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Newsjock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 07:48 PM Response to Original message |
1. 'Credible' doesn't necessarily mean I agree with the reasoning, but here goes |
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Kitty Herder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 07:50 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. I don't think your theories are either/or. |
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mikita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
2. I can't wait to see some of the reponses.... |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 07:56 PM Response to Original message |
4. We are still in Iraq because it has serious strategic value |
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11 Bravo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 08:13 PM Response to Original message |
5. And afterwards you can get a job with BP deciding what a "legitimate" claim might be. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 08:27 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. My finding of legitimacy would be ..... |
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Dover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 08:18 PM Response to Original message |
6. I would not presume to have all the information necessary to make that case |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 08:28 PM Response to Original message |
8. To destroy our enemy, the Taliban. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 12:16 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Feel better for having said that? |
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 01:56 AM Response to Reply #8 |
16. Why is the Taliban our enemy? |
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nemo137 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 04:15 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Because our interests and theirs are no longer aligned. |
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 07:32 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. We didn't even TRY diplomacy and sanctions with Afghanistan |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 10:07 AM Response to Reply #8 |
24. Which is why our colonial administration in Kabul is negotiating a peace with them? |
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WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 08:29 PM Response to Original message |
9. Given the completely subjective nature of the contest |
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Angry Dragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
10. The militay needed a place to test their new weapons and to |
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GreatCaesarsGhost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 10:49 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. yes |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 09:53 PM Response to Original message |
11. A quick two part answer |
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 01:54 AM Response to Original message |
14. 'Cuz we're America, FUCK YEAH |
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Ishoutandscream2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 07:44 PM Response to Reply #14 |
42. Stinky, I think Hugabear wins |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 01:56 AM Response to Original message |
15. Poppies, Pipelines, Profits, Presence |
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OnyxCollie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 02:19 AM Response to Original message |
17. Why are we in Iraq? Because the hydrocarbon law hasn't passed yet. |
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fishbulb703 (492 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 02:37 AM Response to Original message |
18. Uh, because they have not been ordered to return home. Do you have PayPal? nt |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 07:36 AM Response to Original message |
21. It comes down to one word: MONEY! |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 07:48 AM Response to Original message |
22. Thucydides's "History of the Peloponesian War", II.63 |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 10:06 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Because the fall of Saigon worked out so poorly for us? |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 10:55 AM Response to Reply #23 |
27. Read up on what happened in Cambodia after we left Vietnam NT |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 11:15 AM Response to Reply #27 |
29. You are kidding, right? |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 04:00 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. If you simply refuse to see the events of 1975 as connected, fine |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 07:19 PM Response to Reply #33 |
39. Rationalize away the slaughter? |
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izzybeans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
25. So we can fiddle while the world burns? |
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jp11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
26. I can sum it up in one line and it is credible but see my post |
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frustrated_lefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
28. I'll take a stab. |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
30. This OP is endorsed by BlueIris. |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
31. The US people have accepted the plundering of their financial and human resources for the military. |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 05:00 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. and the military protect and seek out resources for private corporations |
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branders seine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 12:40 PM Response to Original message |
32. money for the elites. |
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bahrbearian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 05:03 PM Response to Original message |
35. Oil and Oil pipe line, Gas and Gas piplines, Oh and "he tried to kill my Poppy" |
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noiretextatique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
36. america believes its entitled to those pesky brown people's resources |
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Ishoutandscream2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 07:45 PM Response to Reply #36 |
43. Stinky, this one looks like a possible winner, too |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 05:24 PM Response to Original message |
37. Because pulling out is not as simple and quick as people want it to be |
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Martin Eden (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
38. Consequences of withdrawal, to national security and in US domestic politics |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 07:24 PM Response to Original message |
40. PNAC |
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conscious evolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 09:08 PM Response to Reply #40 |
44. correct answer |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 07:40 PM Response to Original message |
41. Plunder from the American treasury (credit card) and of resources |
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