See! W *did* win the war!!

[underpants]

It's the same military equipment it's just in a different country than we emptied the Treasury to buy it for. Specifically the Missouri part.


On a related note - what was the plot line of "Red Dawn" again?

[merrily]

1. Good point. Remember all that stuff around Iraq, how we could not just

abruptly withdraw because we had to get our equipment out of there?

Hell, we "substantially" withdrew from WWII, the Korean War and the Vietnam War without worrying about that.

Was this Pentagon program of giving excess equipment to local LE the reason we allegedly could not leave Iraq without getting out our equipment first? (As if no human or dollar cost were associated with staying until we got our stuff out.)

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. I remember news pics of helicopters being shoved over the sides of ships

at sea as we left Viet Nam.

And if equipment is do damn important, how come the Gov.is giving military stuff, including tanks, to various police depts over here?

[merrily]

9. Helicopters shoved over the sides of ships? Never heard of that. Good grief.

Apparently, nothing is as easy to spend as US taxpayers' money, whether it's a $20 muffin, dance lessons in Vegas, or dumping helicopters into the ocean. Or wars in the Middle East.

[underpants]

4. Well apparently we did leave some stuff

Because ISIS has some of it now. But not the really good stuff-we needed that for Missouri.

I'll see if I can find the link to Rachel Maddows story on the heavy equipment spread out across America

[merrily]

8. As the saying goes, charity begins at home.

[MisterP]

3. Red Dawn's plot was about how we weren't giving the Taliban enough money

[underpants]

5. Ouch

[MisterP]

6. it's so weird to go through the Heritage Foundation's newsletters and see the Shuttle and Pol Pot

being endorsed on the same page as weapons in the great crusade against Moscow

the likes of "Communism, Hypnotism and the Beatles" are stored at Simi Valley, but I can't find that one 50s preacher's pamphlets that said UFO aliens were Commies because they were for dancing and race-mixing
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/textual/Personal%20Papers/HENDRIX%20ANTI.htm
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/textual/Personal%20Papers/THE%20EVELYN%20PHILIPS%20ANTI.htm
a lot of these are at http://conelrad.com/

[Brother Buzz]

7. It's an unknown known that all that shit is fungible and stuff happens