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Plucketeer

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33. I wasn't raggin' on you

Reply to earthside (Reply #24)

Thu Jan 31, 2013, 03:17 PM

Jan 2013

We very obviously share the same thinking. We need to START reeling in the ridiculous outlays for military crap and use some of those funds here at home!

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Joint Chiefs: Looming cuts would ‘hollow’ military [View all] DonViejo Jan 2013 OP

Good. Hollow the motherfucker out. NT Taverner Jan 2013 #1

+1 villager Jan 2013 #3

^^^THIS^^^ eom Purveyor Jan 2013 #4

I totally agree. Owl Jan 2013 #5

To start how about closing half the overseas bases? earthside Jan 2013 #6

Only HALF? Plucketeer Jan 2013 #14

I said "To start ..." earthside Jan 2013 #24

I wasn't raggin' on you Plucketeer Jan 2013 #33

Sounds like they are starting to get it. bluedigger Jan 2013 #2

Whiney RepubiBrass does not become itself Berlum Jan 2013 #7

Not all -- just stop paying Blackwater rocktivity Jan 2013 #8

Those pathetic losers have lost 2 wars in little more than 10 years and they're coalition_unwilling Jan 2013 #9

"defend"? n/t L0oniX Jan 2013 #12

Exactly! It IS the WAR DEPT. dotymed Jan 2013 #18

Ixnay on the aftdray KamaAina Jan 2013 #23

laughed till I started coughing. MrYikes Jan 2013 #28

The only reason that I consider having a draft dotymed Feb 2013 #39

Cheney is an even better one KamaAina Feb 2013 #41

Good. Maybe we can stop fighting bullshit wars now. n/t Downtown Hound Jan 2013 #10

Retirment community: Medicare and SS cuts will kill us. n/t L0oniX Jan 2013 #11

If "The problem is spending..." november3rd Jan 2013 #13

Hollowed Out military... AlbertCat Jan 2013 #15

Message deleted by the DU Administrators People b4 profits Jan 2013 #16

Crocodile tears. AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #17

Never an exit-strategy.... ReRe Jan 2013 #19

There are no defense "cuts" bluestateguy Jan 2013 #20

The only thing I would really be concerned about Third Doctor Jan 2013 #21

... Phlem Jan 2013 #22

How about using the military only is we need to defend our country and not to offend other countries olddad56 Jan 2013 #25

So what's the downside? nt valerief Jan 2013 #26

So the fuck what? I don't get it. SpankMe Jan 2013 #27

Good. AngryAmish Jan 2013 #29

cannot stop that war machine cash Skittles Jan 2013 #30

I can see the face, but can't remember the name of an instructor at NCO Academy over 20 years ago. patrice Jan 2013 #31

Really Kelvin Mace Jan 2013 #32

Leaving them as hollow as the US middle class, Doctor_J Jan 2013 #34

Isn't the word "bloated" synonymous with "hollow"? Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2013 #35

... and that would be a problem, why, exactly? Myrina Jan 2013 #36

I can only hope ... JustABozoOnThisBus Jan 2013 #37

kick $40 Billion per month in Afghanistan ... lib2DaBone Jan 2013 #38

We are the hollow men Blandocyte Feb 2013 #40

Profound. Absolutely. Profound. Octafish Feb 2013 #42