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originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
a reply to: face23785
All that zeal and energy and yet off you go.
Since I did that one 11 years ago the number is much higher now. Not to mention many I missed when I whipped it up that evening.
But do go on patting yourself on the back for being a blind pro military imperialism "patriot".
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
a reply to: face23785
I'm already well aware of the matter.
I'm more concerned with the reality that it could be 10 million per decade and it wouldnt deter the Neocon's / Neolib's / "Patriots" hardly an inch on the matter; that the liberals proved themselves never to truly care about the AntiWar Movement that they spearheaded, instead it was only partisan theater; that not far off from a trillion per year is spent on such imperialism apparatus when we cant afford it but and yet still "we" push on with the BS; etc.
originally posted by: schuyler
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
How about stop paying towards a trillion per year to the war machine and use that money to fix stuff?
Because "providing for the common defense" is in the US Constitution. However, the trillion dollars a year spend on welfare is not.
originally posted by: UpIsNowDown
originally posted by: schuyler
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
How about stop paying towards a trillion per year to the war machine and use that money to fix stuff?
Because "providing for the common defense" is in the US Constitution. However, the trillion dollars a year spend on welfare is not.
Man thats harsh, happy to spend money$$ on destruction not on helping fellow Americans who may have fallen on hard times
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
a reply to: face23785
The balls on you.
You just said 'truth in the middle of a range'...
The best data I had at the time, a moderate number as the milllion+ number was already commonplace, I went with 600,000, which makes sense as even in hindsight of all estimates the range is 110,000-1,200,00.
Now factor in the work on that page only account for 2003-2010, when US meddling there also accounts for 2010-Current, as "we" got the snowball rolling right on from red snow to yellow snow back into red snow again with ISIS, and then that pesky issue of the CIA triggering the Arab Spring, the Syrian Uprising (which included sending both ISIS & Al Qaeda in as mercs). Etc.
And for what, exactly? Bloodlust & ego tripping rationalized as it was all for oil.
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
a reply to: face23785
Thats all mainstream history / news.
And without it you can hardly even begin to conceive of what the war machine, the wars, since WW2 are all about.
But rock on in ignorance yo
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
How about stop paying towards a trillion per year to the war machine and use that money to fix stuff?
Oh, yeah, they're imperialists too.