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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 07:07 AM
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2. We need to buy them off
It would be a whole hell of a lot cheaper than starting a war with them in the long run.

Use Iraq as an example.

Saddam would have "surrendered" and left the country for a few billion dollars. Now it is costing us trillions.

Don
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