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BigBearJohn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 10:48 PM Original message |
Can ANYONE give me 1 REAL BENEFIT we received for the $1.2 trillion spent on war? |
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Fuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 10:49 PM Response to Original message |
1. Own any stock in McDonnell Douglas? |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 10:49 PM Response to Original message |
2. We saved GE from having to pay taxes. Imagine what could have happened--the horror. |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 10:50 PM Response to Original message |
3. Um, fewer soldiers guns tanks and bombs cluttering up our military bases? |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 10:51 PM Response to Original message |
4. it kept millions of people employed |
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JaneQPublic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 10:51 PM Response to Original message |
5. War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. |
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BigBearJohn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 10:52 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Would make a great song! :) As true today as it ever was. (sigh) |
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Rage for Order (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
6. We got to rotate our stock of bullets, bombs, and missiles |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 10:54 PM Response to Original message |
8. Employed thousands of young people and scarred them emotionally and physically for life. |
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Newest Reality (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
9. The MIC |
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david13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 10:58 PM Response to Original message |
10. The soldiers get a paycheck? Some people work for the contractors. |
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Angry Dragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 11:00 PM Response to Original message |
11. Did someone tell you that you would get a benefit?? |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
12. Nothing. Take it up with Bush. |
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sharesunited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 11:03 PM Response to Original message |
13. If you're talking about Libya |
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Sonoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
14. You can feel a whole lot goddanged safer, that's what. |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 11:10 PM Response to Original message |
15. Do you see al Qaeda's Naval Fleet on our shores? Huh? |
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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 11:38 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. I did not realize the CIA had issued Al-Qaeda ships...who knew? |
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BrightKnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 11:14 PM Response to Original message |
16. They could have had the Saddam guy taken out for less than $1.2 T. |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 12:27 AM Response to Reply #16 |
25. Maybe we could have just bought Iraq |
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Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 11:14 PM Response to Original message |
17. USA's only remaining 'major manufacturing' are heavy arms |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 11:33 PM Response to Original message |
18. Cheap oil...er, um |
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BklynThirtyThree (65 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 11:35 PM Response to Original message |
19. bought a lot of houses in the vineyard |
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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 11:37 PM Response to Original message |
20. The warmongers: the MIC and Lords of Money got richer. |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
22. prosthetic device improvement. |
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Gravel Democrat (598 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
23. "What could we have done with $1.2 trillion if we spent it on the AMERICAN PEOPLE?" |
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I Drink Water (80 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 12:22 AM Response to Original message |
24. Iraqis got Universal Health Care, passed by Bush and the Republicans. |
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KeepItReal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 12:50 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. +1000 |
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_ed_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 09:43 AM Response to Original message |
27. The only people that benefit are Obama's corporate buddies |
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