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1% KNOWS WAR IS A GOOD BUSINESS
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1% KNOWS WAR IS A GOOD BUSINESS
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The 1 percent knows what good business war is, owing partly to America's seemingly insatiable will to spend its money on military affairs and the ease with which the national security state can be ga
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1% KNOWS WAR IS A GOOD BUSINESS
posted at November 16, 2011 5:27 PM EST
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The 1 percent knows what good business war is, owing partly to America's seemingly insatiable will to spend its money on military affairs and the ease with which the national security state can be gamed to furnish private corporations with windfall profit-yielding public contracts. More than half of the discretionary budget is devoted to military matters, as though there were no use for that money domestically. Rakaa Iriscience of Dilated Peoples puts it well in the aptly titled "Big Business": "If more than half the budget goes to military spending, less than half goes to whatever it's defending." And the 1 percent are making out like bandits ( from Truthout) |
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Re: 1% KNOWS WAR IS A GOOD BUSINESS
posted at December 2, 2011 11:06 AM EST
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In Response to Re: 1% KNOWS WAR IS A GOOD BUSINESS: Right! And Romney, Gingrich, Cain would happpily start another one with Iran. The problem is: we can't afford it! Our debts equals our GDP now... Posted by Astra2012 the fate of 50 year-old Mohammad Rahim, a farmer from Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan? Four of his children -- two sons and two daughters, all between four and 12 years old -- were killed in a “NATO” (undoubtedly American) airstrike, while working in their fields. In addition, an eight-year-old daughter of his was “badly wounded.” Whether Rahim himself was killed is unclear from the modest reports we have of the “incident.” The above and stories like that are really awful ...it remains that the longer we occupy these countries then terrible things may well happen to the civilian populations and create more hate for our country which will last for generations. Preventing war should be the agenda of the USA. But there are too many people in this country that worship their weapons and so it extends beyond that into support of aggression. |
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Re: 1% KNOWS WAR IS A GOOD BUSINESS
posted at December 2, 2011 1:46 PM EST
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Awful.But all wars are. That's why I support the only candidate who voted against war in Iraq! otherwise our government (Bush, Obama...) does not care that WE, PEOPLE protest wars |
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Re: 1% KNOWS WAR IS A GOOD BUSINESS
posted at December 4, 2011 7:10 AM EST
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In Response to Re: 1% KNOWS WAR IS A GOOD BUSINESS: Awful.But all wars are. That's why I support the only candidate who voted against war in Iraq! otherwise our government (Bush, Obama...) does not care that WE, PEOPLE protest wars Posted by Astra2012 On Wednesday night, the Senate adopted by voice vote an amendment introduced by Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley calling on President Obama to speed up U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. This was a watershed event towards ending the war. The previous high water mark of Senators calling for expedited withdrawal was 27; the previous high water mark on a vote was 18. The vote is a green light from the Senate to the White House for a faster military withdrawal that would save many American and Afghan lives and (at least) many tens of billions of taxpayer dollars. www.dailykos.com/story In June, President Obama announced the phased withdrawal of the 33,000 troops. Ten thousand were to be out by the end of this year and the remaining 23,000 are scheduled to leave by the end of next September. Obama voted against the Bush Iraqi invasion. Packing & patrolling....U S troops roll out of IRAQ are the headlines of today. IF Sectarian strife or other violence should break out in Iraq once U.S. forces have left, Obama could be blamed for abandoning Iraq .....even though it was predicable in the very beginning that when the U.S. left then there might well be a civil war. Iraqis never asked to be liberated to start with. The middle east loves their enslavement to ISLAM. |
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Re: 1% KNOWS WAR IS A GOOD BUSINESS
posted at December 5, 2011 11:58 AM EST
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you said Obama voted against the Bush Iraqi invasion. In theory all Democrats were supposed to vote against that war- just some proved to be spineless (among others our Secretary of State). Ron Paul had guts to be the ONLY republican to vote against war! President needs to have the ability to go against the flow. Truman had it.He would never be the president now-and it would be OUR loss! Obama needs to be liked by everybody-and this is not possible. yes, it might be bad in Iraq and Afganistan when we leave, either now, in a year or even in 10 years! But American president should think first about American people- they pay for these wars! The sooner they end the better for everybody. As Ron Paul said: "We marched in, now we'll march out" Ron Paul is Thomas Jefferson of our times! |
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