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area51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-24-08 10:02 AM
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16. This govt. has to spend the money somewhere ...
... otherwise, we'd have it available to transition into single-payer healthcare like the civilized countries have.


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  -Why All the Foreign Bases? Echo In Light  Mar-24-08 07:19 AM   #0 
  - "All your base are belong to us."- Republicon homelander Oil & Munitions & Mercenary Cronies  SpiralHawk   Mar-24-08 07:29 AM   #1 
  - Meanwhile, they are closing bases in the US  MiniMe   Mar-24-08 07:32 AM   #2 
  - And if they ever close a base it's usually one on US soil.  Lasher   Mar-24-08 07:38 AM   #3 
  - Did Kennedy, Johnson, Carter or Clinton  Thothmes   Mar-24-08 08:08 AM   #6 
  - No, but President Lasher certainly would. n/t  Lasher   Mar-24-08 11:53 AM   #22 
  - The occupation never ended for Germany and Japan.  quadriga   Mar-24-08 08:26 AM   #8 
     - Not so straight forward  hack89   Mar-24-08 11:02 AM   #21 
        - "construction and wages for civilian workers being the big costs"  harun   Mar-24-08 01:26 PM   #23 
  - I have asked this for so very very long...  OwnedByFerrets   Mar-24-08 07:40 AM   #4 
  - The other explanation is that the US now needs to use the threat of force to achieve interests  AP   Mar-24-08 07:44 AM   #5 
  - The bases are there to protect Corporate interest...  saddlesore   Mar-24-08 08:23 AM   #7 
  - That question has been asked  orangerevolution   Mar-24-08 08:55 AM   #10 
  - Becoming?? I think that mantle was taken on  OwnedByFerrets   Mar-24-08 09:27 AM   #12 
     - Yep  Echo In Light   Mar-24-08 09:30 AM   #13 
     - Sorry, I should have stated that it was a rhetorical question.  saddlesore   Mar-24-08 10:23 AM   #18 
        - "Persons" {private tyrannies} required by law to abide shareholders OVER the public trust  Echo In Light   Mar-24-08 10:27 AM   #19 
  - Meanwhile, no foreign bases in the United States  Paint It Black   Mar-24-08 08:29 AM   #9 
  - Foreign Base in the US  orangerevolution   Mar-24-08 10:00 AM   #15 
  - It's just another example of our hypocrisy  Paint It Black   Mar-24-08 10:08 AM   #17 
  - There is a German base in Texas and Virginia  Zywiec   Mar-24-08 10:30 AM   #20 
  - The Military-Industrial Complex  KharmaTrain   Mar-24-08 09:04 AM   #11 
  - That, coupled w/PNAC, makes 9/11 all the more convenient to keep War Pigs in $  Echo In Light   Mar-24-08 09:31 AM   #14 
  - This govt. has to spend the money somewhere ...  area51   Mar-24-08 10:02 AM   #16 
 

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