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This ad just aired during the PGA Champiohship (Original Post) underpants Aug 2015 OP
The same ad was running here in Arizona last week, KarenS Aug 2015 #1
The US is the most prolific explosives making nation the world has ever known nolabels Aug 2015 #2
Folks...the military complex has got to be #1 export... Hulk Aug 2015 #3
Sleazy republican mother fuckers want another war. IHateTheGOP Aug 2015 #4
And soon Person 2713 Aug 2015 #5
The American Security Initiative is full of... V0ltairesGh0st Aug 2015 #6
Where was he when he was hit by an Iranian bomb? JDPriestly Aug 2015 #7
Exactly. Duppers Aug 2015 #8
I'm simply asking for more facts about his situation. JDPriestly Aug 2015 #15
How would he know where the bomb came from? sulphurdunn Aug 2015 #10
What exactly does this man's wounds sulphurdunn Aug 2015 #9
The Republican Party = The War Party. Enthusiast Aug 2015 #11
Fucking Warmongers snort Aug 2015 #12
The billionaires dvduval Aug 2015 #13
I guess the Bomb said imthevicar Aug 2015 #14
According to Google, Robert Bartlett was injured in the Iraq War. JDPriestly Aug 2015 #16

nolabels

(13,133 posts)
2. The US is the most prolific explosives making nation the world has ever known
Sun Aug 16, 2015, 04:41 PM
Aug 2015

Me thinks the pot be calling the kettle black. Another thing you might want to note is a person mostly doesn't make staff Sargent on one's first tour. I got out after my initial enlistment. I personally would classify what happened to him as an occupational hazard. That explosion also doesn't indicate to me any reason to be going to war or war type hostilities with anybody. And if there was war needing to be started because of hostile explosions then many places in our own United states could be a starting point with such twisted logic

Yet, of course, there is the old adage, when you place a hammer in a mans hand everything starts to look like a nail

 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
3. Folks...the military complex has got to be #1 export...
Sun Aug 16, 2015, 05:04 PM
Aug 2015

...behind refined petroleum. I don't know for a fact, but I would guess those two are what keeps us competitive in the world today, economically. We import nearly everything else.

Anyone know where I might go to research this one?

War IS our business. If the world stops all the senseless killing and threatening each other, we would be hurting big time.

Israel is "our testing ground" for weapons. They slaughter Palestinians to test out the latest riot weaponry and mid range explosives, and we are having a field day in Africa and the Middle East today. Our major competitors are Russia, China, and a few European "socialist" governments.

War is good for business. Peace sucks.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
7. Where was he when he was hit by an Iranian bomb?
Sun Aug 16, 2015, 06:20 PM
Aug 2015

I watched twice, but I did not hear him say.

Was he in the Gulf between Iraq and Iran? Where was he?

Duppers

(28,117 posts)
8. Exactly.
Sun Aug 16, 2015, 06:50 PM
Aug 2015

Last edited Mon Aug 17, 2015, 04:50 PM - Edit history (1)

Not in 2005. Iranian bomb? Bullcrap.


There's one way to prevent this: stay out of Iran.
Besides, what country is currently fighting ISIS the most?

Damn gullible wingers.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
15. I'm simply asking for more facts about his situation.
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 04:06 PM
Aug 2015

Have we been secretly fighting Iran? I think it is a valid question. Where and when was this soldier hit by an Iranian bomb?

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)
11. The Republican Party = The War Party.
Sun Aug 16, 2015, 07:26 PM
Aug 2015

What does this guy's wounds have to do with Iran?

Not a fucking thing.

It also has nothing to do with patriotism or fake Republican patriotism.

dvduval

(260 posts)
13. The billionaires
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 01:10 AM
Aug 2015

The billionaires should be forced to put their name on it.
"Paid for by billionaires who want to appeal to your emotion, not your intelligence"
There should be a public service announcement at the end of every ad. Something!
This is only the beginning. Argh!

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
16. According to Google, Robert Bartlett was injured in the Iraq War.
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 04:17 PM
Aug 2015

I don't know why a bomb made in Iran would have been used against our troops in Iraq.

The Iranians are Shiites, as I understand it, and they fought Saddam Hussein the same person we fought in the Iraq War. Iran has benefited more than any other country from our having fought in Iraq.

I don't understand why Robert Bartlett thinks that the bomb that injured him was Iranian.

We need more facts. I want to make it clear that I am not calling Robert Barrtlett a liar. I just want to know how he knows that what he states in that ad is true. If not, why does he say it.

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