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For Veterans and Military personnel only.[W:651]

For Veterans and Military personnel only.


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Re: For Veterans and Military personnel only.

Oh so you would prefer they burn.... I'm sorry, I guess expecting you to be honest was my mistake. :shrug:

Right you are, that was the priority wasn't it? Not searching for WMD, not securing the nuclear facilities, not securing the medical facilities.

Good point!
 
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I believe Romney to be far more moderate than Obama, so he get's my vote.
 
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I do not think the Romney Birthers are actual birthers. I think mostly they feel in their minds they are giving republicans a dose of their own medicine. This claim they want to see Romney's birth certificate is merely a rouse to stick it to republicans and are hoping to expose republicans as hypocrite for not wanting to see Romney's birth certificate.

I believe you have nailed it, sir.
 
Right you are, that was the priority wasn't it? Not searching for WMD, not securing the nuclear facilities, not securing the medical facilities.

Good point!




I am surprised such a far left fringe hack such as yourself would think securing the oil fields to prevent a repeat of a horrific environmental disaster of the last war to be something to whine about.

He was known to set them ablaze, why wouldn't they make thier security a top priority?


If he hadnt and they were set ablaze, you would be throwing a tantrum over that..... This is why you get dismissed.
 
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I do when what he said is backed up by others.

Let's be clear about something. Are you saying that the sole purpose of that war was oil or one of the purposes?
 
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I am surprised such a far left fringe hack such as yourself would think securing the oil fields to prevent a repeat of a horrific environmental disaster of the last war to be something to whine about.

He was known to set them ablaze, why wouldn't they make thier security a top priority?


If he hadnt and they were set ablaze, you would be throwing a tantrum over that..... This is why you get dismissed.


Your agreement that the oil wells and facilities were the top priority is noted. Thanks!
 
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Let's be clear about something. Are you saying that the sole purpose of that war was oil or one of the purposes?


I'm saying it is the only credible reason anyone has been able to verify. That is why most of the world believes the war was about oil. Even your man Ron Paul admits it.
 
Your agreement that the oil wells and facilities were the top priority is noted. Thanks!



Only a fool, wouldn't secure them. Of course it was top priority. For the reasons i posted, not for the hackery you spew.

I was there in 91, you, troop basher, were at home. I saw the environmental disaster unfold. I am shocked you would prefer they burn.
 
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I think the biggest problem is that we went. Once we went, the damage was done. There was no easy or even profitable way to exit.

Yeah we shouldn't have gone and then let Hussein Obama whoops I mean Saddam Hussein (I get those 2 mixed up) get a dirty bomb and kill a million Americans........I got it now.......
 
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Yeah we shouldn't have gone and then let Hussein Obama whoops I mean Saddam Hussein (I get those 2 mixed up) get a dirty bomb and kill a million Americans........I got it now.......

Saddam Hussein had a dirty bomb and killed millions of Americans!!?? Wow, you left wing kooks just keep coming up with crazier and crazier ****, don't you my big government loving left-wing friend?
 
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Yeah we shouldn't have gone and then let Hussein Obama whoops I mean Saddam Hussein (I get those 2 mixed up) get a dirty bomb and kill a million Americans........I got it now.......

Yeah, that makes sense, ignore that it was Saudis that attacked us and go after the Saudis enemy who didn't have the capacity to be a threat to the US or its neighbors.
 
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Yeah we shouldn't have gone and then let Hussein Obama whoops I mean Saddam Hussein (I get those 2 mixed up) get a dirty bomb and kill a million Americans........I got it now.......

Yeah, that makes sense

Sucks when people take you out of context like you did to RevHH huh?
 
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President Bush was capable of ordering military action. However, he is not capable of funding said action. That is the job of the Congress. And Congress' both GOP and Dem controlled failed to stop funding the war. Therefore, they are just as to blame as President Bush is. Simple as that. No money=no war.

The order was the problem, period. After VN, not funding would be political suicide. We should not pretend we don't know or understand political realities, especially when those who properly stood up were voted out of office. The decider decided, and that lays the blame on him. He had no pressure of any kind to needlessly start a war.
 
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Yeah we shouldn't have gone and then let Hussein Obama whoops I mean Saddam Hussein (I get those 2 mixed up) get a dirty bomb and kill a million Americans........I got it now.......

How do you get a middle eastern dictator mixed up with an American president.It almost sounds like you are pulling the same ****die hard anti-Bush lib-tards did when Bush was in office. Conservatives should be above such petty nonsense.
 
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The order was the problem, period. After VN, not funding would be political suicide. We should not pretend we don't know or understand political realities, especially when those who properly stood up were voted out of office. The decider decided, and that lays the blame on him. He had no pressure of any kind to needlessly start a war.

I'm not pretending to say that it wouldn't be political suicide. However, it hurts (and I mean that) to know that my life and the lives of the Marines that I've lost are not as important as some politician getting a vote. Our Congress has allowed itself to be neutered. They are responsible, solely responsible, for that. Wars don't happen without money. Congress controls the money. Shame on them
 
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I will abstain if Obama and Romney are my only choices.
 
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"Every single Republican presidential candidate (except Ron Paul) condemned Obama for ending the war and not leaving thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq indefinitely. The GOP field hasn’t persuaded much of anyone.


That includes Mitt Romney, by the way, who called the end of U.S. mission in Iraq an “astonishing failure.” Romney, it turns out, was for the war, then unwilling to state a position on the war, then against the war. This is the same Republican presidential hopeful who once said he’d “set a deadline for bringing the troops home” from Iraq — but only if it’s a secret deadline; said it’s “entirely possible” that Saddam Hussein hid weapons of mass destruction in Syria prior to the 2003 invasion; and made the bizarre assertion that IAEA weapons inspectors were not allowed entry into Saddam Hussein’s Iraq."

Political Animal - GOP rhetoric on Iraq fails to persuade
 
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Yeah, that's a good example of why I personally find Mr. Romney eh. Consistency is not a word that one would use to describe him.
 
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Yeah, that makes sense, ignore that it was Saudis that attacked us and go after the Saudis enemy who didn't have the capacity to be a threat to the US or its neighbors.

The Saudis as in supported by the Saudi govt? That makes no sense for all sorts of reasons.
 
Yeah, that makes sense, ignore that it was Saudis that attacked us and go after the Saudis enemy who didn't have the capacity to be a threat to the US or its neighbors.



So you think we should have attacked saudi arabia?
 
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I'm not pretending to say that it wouldn't be political suicide. However, it hurts (and I mean that) to know that my life and the lives of the Marines that I've lost are not as important as some politician getting a vote. Our Congress has allowed itself to be neutered. They are responsible, solely responsible, for that. Wars don't happen without money. Congress controls the money. Shame on them

yes, they have allowed themselves to be neutered, democrat and republican alike. And contempt for this is proper. But the decision to go to war was Bush's and Bush's alone. I've fine with shame on all of them, but I think we need to be clear on what they have to be ashamed of.
 
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The Saudis as in supported by the Saudi govt? That makes no sense for all sorts of reasons.

As supported by rich Saudi donors. Most of the suicide bombers in Iraq were also Saudi.
 
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