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KingFlorez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-17-08 09:31 PM
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2. That's a good point
There was a lesson to be learned in what happened with the Soviet Union and it's not impossible it could happen here.
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  -Remember how the Soviet Union collapsed? scheming daemons  Sep-17-08 09:29 PM   #0 
  - Didn't the Soviets build a Wall!?  StClone   Sep-17-08 09:30 PM   #1 
  - slight difference  dwickham   Sep-17-08 09:40 PM   #16 
  - That's a good point  KingFlorez   Sep-17-08 09:31 PM   #2 
  - Are you including "corporatists" into your definition of "terrorists"?  Kristi1696   Sep-17-08 09:31 PM   #3 
  - Al Qaeda  abumbyanyothername   Sep-17-08 09:32 PM   #4 
  - Half-assed efforts in Afghanistan are catching up to us, they blew tons of  NC_Nurse   Sep-17-08 09:32 PM   #5 
  - The USSR collapsed for one reason:  FKA MNChimpH8R   Sep-17-08 09:32 PM   #6 
  - The housing crisis would have happened without the War on Terror  Marsala   Sep-17-08 09:33 PM   #7 
  - I understand your analagy, and I do see a similarity, BUT.....  napi21   Sep-17-08 09:34 PM   #8 
  - I have been saying this since 2003  FreakinDJ   Sep-17-08 09:35 PM   #9 
  - The Soviet economic and political systems were a house of cards and totally corrupt. nt  MookieWilson   Sep-17-08 09:35 PM   #10 
  - Yes, kind of like ours  sandnsea   Sep-17-08 09:38 PM   #13 
  - And your point is?  The Village Idiot   Sep-17-08 09:54 PM   #19 
  - Russia is doing it again  ben_meyers   Sep-17-08 09:37 PM   #11 
  - That was their goal to bankrupt us and keep us in fear  Tribetime   Sep-17-08 09:37 PM   #12 
  - Maybe this is our last, best chance to finally starve the beast?  tridim   Sep-17-08 09:38 PM   #14 
  - This was driven by pure unadulterated GREED!!  MichDem10   Sep-17-08 09:40 PM   #15 
  - The terrorists have won if McCain wins the election.  protect our future   Sep-17-08 09:41 PM   #17 
  - I think that *ss and co. did more to cause our meltdown than Al Queda.  jwirr   Sep-17-08 09:53 PM   #18 
  - I think the breakup of the British Empire is a better comparison.  Spider Jerusalem   Sep-17-08 10:07 PM   #20 
  - We financed al Queda to keep them fighting in Afghanistan  EC   Sep-17-08 10:22 PM   #21 
 

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