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TroubleMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 07:30 PM Original message |
WWII ended 60 years ago, and we still have troops in Germany & Japan. |
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NVMojo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
1. Yo, haven't you been following the base/post closures over there? |
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TroubleMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 07:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Finally....after 60 years. But we still have troops there. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 07:36 PM Response to Original message |
3. Japan and Germany made sense as a post war occupation to |
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TroubleMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 07:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Good points, |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 07:45 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Remember that was started by Bush I |
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TroubleMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 07:48 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. 1991 was when it started. Another mess he left for Clinton. |
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spindrifter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
4. Yeah, and we still have |
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TroubleMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 07:50 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. LOL...some people are still fighting that war. |
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AnnieBW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 07:58 PM Response to Original message |
9. Spyin' on the Russians |
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TroubleMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 08:08 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Yeah....I sort of glossed over the "reasons" |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 08:13 PM Response to Original message |
11. It's not exactly like that |
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TroubleMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 08:28 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. So you think that we'll completely leave Iraq and not leave a base there? |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 08:55 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. I don't know for sure but the future of the Iraqi bases is very uncertain |
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MountainLaurel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 10:31 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. Aren't we already building permanent bases? |
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enigma000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 08:47 PM Response to Original message |
13. Too much of an investment to leave |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 09:04 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. the training of Iraquis is smoke and mirrors |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 09:33 PM Response to Original message |
16. they kinda wanted us there |
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Disturbed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-25-05 11:01 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Amerika will stay in Iraq until the oil is gone. |
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