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bigdarryl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-11 08:32 PM
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The Congress can stop this war ASAP if they had the guts
Stop the funding completely end of discussion
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gimama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-11 08:42 PM
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1. YES! could end all 6 wars, NOW
if they had the guts and INTEGRITY to do so.

Bring our Troops HOME, NOW..& care for 'em when they get Home.
thanks for Your OP.:patriot:
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-11 09:22 PM
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5. So it's 6 wars now? Which imaginary new ones have started?
Let me guess, we've invaded Freedonia?
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gimama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-11 09:30 PM
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8. counting ..
1. Iraq
2. Afghanistan
3. Pakistan
4. Yemen
5. Libya
6. "global war on terror"

hmm...do You count the "war on drugs", too?
It's ALL a waste of Treasure, our People & resources,
as well as those we war against. I'm SICK of it. YOU aren't?
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-11 09:33 PM
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9. So, two wars, and three imaginary wars, and recon support for NATO. Pretty much what I expected.
Seriously, this level of hysterical exaggeration does no favors to anyone, least of all the cause of bringing the ACTUAL wars to a close.
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-11 10:33 PM
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11. 130+ people have been killed by the US in Yemen this MONTH>
It is a fucking war. As is Pakistan. Tell the families of the dead that it is just hysterics. Jeezus you are calloused. Anything to defend Obama, right?
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 01:25 PM
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21. A war requires both sides to actually be fighting
Last I checked nobody is fighting our drones. What we're doing in Yemen might be better referred to as just plain killing.
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 11:52 AM
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19. +1000
It just lends the warmongers and argument to use.
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JoePhilly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 10:23 AM
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16. Everything is a war now.
Its all the rage.
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dionysus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-11 11:32 AM
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22. get it right, it's 57 wars buster!
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-11 08:46 PM
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2. They absolutely should stop funding this bullshit - problem is, most are...
...taking money from the war profiteers.
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bigdarryl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-11 08:57 PM
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3. The President and Congress need to stop lying and treating the American people
like we are kids and tell us the REAL reason we are in Afghanistan.Its the oil reserves and that pipeline also the minerals
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-11 09:29 PM
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7. The oil reserves? Afghanistan doesn't HAVE any oil.
None. There is no oil pipeline running through Afghanistan either. So seriously, peel off the tin foil.
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Hawkowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 10:07 AM
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14. Afghanistan's 'Vast Riches Of Minerals' Highlighted By Pentagon
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 01:17 PM
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20. The pipeline hasn't even been built yet (and it may never get built)
Edited on Sun Jun-26-11 01:18 PM by Hippo_Tron
And the minerals were discovered almost a decade after we went in there. We're in Afghanistan because of vengeance.
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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-11 09:12 PM
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4. Yeah, well, progressives stayed home in '10 and congress is run by the GOP now
...
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nichomachus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-11 09:24 PM
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6. There was only one Democrat in Congress willing to prove he had balls
But they threw Weiner out.
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ClarkUSA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-11 10:34 PM
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12. Yeah, to "prove" it, he flashed them across the blogosphere.
Edited on Wed Jun-22-11 10:38 PM by ClarkUSA
:rofl:

Seriously, Weiner never accomplished a damned thing in Congress. He was another John Edwards, minus the nice hair and mole.
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ellisonz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 06:16 AM
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13. ....
:rofl:
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Kaleva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-11 12:47 PM
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24. And we have the picture to prove he had balls!
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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-11 10:21 PM
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10. Let's just call this whole mess over with and everyone go home...
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vaberella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 10:08 AM
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15. "Guts" ROFL! It's not about guts...this simplistic way of looking at war kills me. n/t
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TheKentuckian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 11:34 AM
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17. True, "guts", "spine", and "balls" have little to do with it.
More to do with greed, avarice for power, adherence to our false national secular religion, an appalling disrespect for human life, lack of humanity, and ideological absurdity.

Lack of fortitude is a minority problem, the majority lacks scruples and good intent.

A few good Democrats fail to have the fortitude to stand up to the TeaPubliKlan/Turd Way majority but the real issue is willful mal-intent.
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 11:52 AM
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18. Dealing with pesky details is not your strong suit
Who knows what would happen to us if you were President.
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Kaleva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-11 12:46 PM
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23. Too few people pressuring Congress to stop the war by refusing to fund it.
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saras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-11 01:55 PM
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25. Never mind the "wars", how about the US just stop killing people? Especially outside the country?
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