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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 12:42 AM
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Instead of agreeing to taxcuts for the rich, why not let them pick another country to attack?
They get another war. Taxcuts for the rich die in the exchange.

Some might even argue it's the "middle ground."

The CPAs in the crowd would probably tell us that we'd save money with the extra war.
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somone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 12:46 AM
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1. Nah, put them in a time machine and drop them off here:
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howaboutme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 12:49 AM
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2. I think they are eyeballing Iran as we speak
and just like Iraq it won't be a war fought to protect OUR USA freedom.

"On Saturday, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a prominent Republican voice for an aggressive foreign policy, floated the idea of an all-out offensive against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's regime -- "not to just neutralize their nuclear program, but to sink their navy, destroy their air force and deliver a decisive blow to the Revolutionary Guard. In other words, neuter that regime. Destroy their ability to fight back."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101109/pl_yblog_upshot/iran-hawks-step-up-pressure-on-obama-some-see-echoes-of-iraq
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 01:01 AM
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5. The neocons didn't just dry up and blow away
We will relive the nightmare because we didn't have tribunals and executions over the invasion of Iraq.
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howaboutme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 01:24 AM
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6. Exactly and it was the impeachment of GW Bush
that was taken off the table by Nancy Pelosi that would have unmasked the secretive deals and false intelligence that put us into Iraq, and the investigation may have even uncovered the workings behind 9-11.

Here is the letter sent to President Obama by Republican Congressmen.

http://tom.house.gov/files/Letter%20to%20President%20on%20Iran.pdf

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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 12:50 AM
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3. Isn't it spring time in Argentina right now? n/t
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 12:52 AM
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4. We would save money with another war, assuming it would resemble the two going on now.
Over the past 10 years the Bush tax cuts have cost $1.8 trillion. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost $739 billion and $357 billion, respectively.
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Faryn Balyncd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 02:12 AM
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7. i think they want both
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Luminous Animal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-10 02:19 AM
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8. We're already escalating a secret war without them. Yemen.
Edited on Fri Nov-12-10 02:19 AM by Luminous Animal
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