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90-percent

(6,829 posts)
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 09:40 AM Mar 2012

Col. Wilkerson on The Ed Show last Night

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45755822/vp/46675786#46675786

It's nice to see the clip of our beautiful President discussing the COST OF WAR.

Fucking Chickenhawks talking war as a leading solution to anything is the absolute height of hypocrisy.

Could we as a country at least repair all the broken military VOLUNTEERS we created in the last ten years before they go on to destroy a good portion of a future generation?

Waring on Iran ain't gonna be the cake walk of invading Iraq, also. They'll fight back and our casualties could possibly approach Viet Nam era body counts!

-90% Jimmy
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Col. Wilkerson on The Ed Show last Night (Original Post) 90-percent Mar 2012 OP
Wow. That was powerful. HopeHoops Mar 2012 #1
Soldier & veteran suicides have to be included as 'costs of war' duhneece Mar 2012 #2
additionally 90-percent Mar 2012 #3
k & R n/t ejbr Mar 2012 #4

duhneece

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2. Soldier & veteran suicides have to be included as 'costs of war'
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 10:28 AM
Mar 2012

As well as the increase in domestic violence and the waterboarding of civilians that have happened since the US approved torture.

90-percent

(6,829 posts)
3. additionally
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 11:08 AM
Mar 2012

I am not well educated on the subject, but isn't our current Presidents "License to Kill" anywhere on earth bound to cause maybe a little blow back?

I recall an obscure piece of info from the Kennedy days. Castro got wind JFK was discussing his assassination, which I think the C.I.A. actually tried and flubbed many times. Not unreasonable to think Castro may have responded in kind, perhaps with the tragic results of November 22, 1963?

Well, if the USA can assassinate their leaders, what's to prevent them from DOING THE SAME TO US?

Isn't there at least some sort of pact among the leaders of the world that they agree not to go assassinating each other?

Our CIA blowback factory has historically done a pretty rotten job of providing us with the Security we crave. Maybe we should yield a few more Constitutional Rights to help them along?



-90% jimmy

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