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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 04:03 PM Original message |
"War Or Car" Blog: For The Cost Of The Iraq War We Could Have Bought Every American A Prius... |
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calimary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
1. YESSSS! First to kick and rec this! |
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amyrose2712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 04:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. K&R |
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whistle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
2. Of course, but Big Oil does not want every American to have a Prius |
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givemebackmycountry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
4. War or Car? Give me a break.... |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 04:42 PM Response to Original message |
5. If you look in the back of John Perkins' book "Confessions of an Economic Hitman", |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 05:10 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. I've GOT to read that book |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 06:21 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. No "profit" to be made, so no corporate backing, so no political will. |
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mahina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 05:34 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Whoa. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-18-08 01:05 PM Response to Reply #10 |
21. He references it in the book, so the study is in the citations. IIRC it was |
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mahina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-18-08 05:42 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. I actually take a lot of hope from that, |
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City of Mills (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 05:46 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. Came across this book by accident |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 06:17 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. It's both a great read and terrifying on many levels, not the least of which is |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 04:42 PM Response to Original message |
6. buying every american a prius would have made the price of oil go DOWN, not UP... |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 04:53 PM Response to Original message |
7. You can't expect that from the party hell bent on destroying the earth |
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Usrename (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 05:03 PM Response to Original message |
8. We could have paid EVERY Iraqi fifty-grand to leave the country. |
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pleah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
11. K&R |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-17-08 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
15. "Freedom isn't Free" We have ever so much more freeedom now we've invested in Iraq. |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-18-08 05:48 AM Response to Original message |
16. could we have had universal health care? |
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robinlynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-18-08 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
17. umm let's see. a great car vs millions dead, maimed, and displaced....hard choice! |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-18-08 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
18. I love it! |
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helderheid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-18-08 11:50 AM Response to Original message |
19. rec 20 |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-18-08 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
20. Yeah, but Blackwater and Halliburton would have missed out on some lucrative deals. |
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DebJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-18-08 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
22. k&r |
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Clark2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-18-08 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
23. I wouldn't want one. |
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hogwyld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-18-08 05:50 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. So, just because it's made by Toyota |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-18-08 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
24. how much longer before they can give me a Lamborghini? |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-18-08 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
25. Better yet...WE don't even have to pay for it!!!!!! |
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