Getting into Libya makes the Defense budget harder to cut.
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Sat Apr-09-11 11:37 AM
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Getting into Libya makes the Defense budget harder to cut.
That leaves only the things we like on the table for cuts. This is the price of getting into war. We have nothing to bargain with to protect projects we like except a shutdown.
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Sat Apr-09-11 11:43 AM
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1. We will print money to continue our love affair with wars if needs be.
Beg borrow and steal, we simply must have never ending wars.
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Sat Apr-09-11 11:50 AM
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2. But the biggest problem is it's turned Obama into a champion of defense appropriations.
Probably the Senate too as they are so gung ho to expand our involvement.
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Sat Apr-09-11 12:11 PM
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5. Obama chose to go to Lybia. He chose his Advisors.
What about the War Machine--Defense Contractors??
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Sat Apr-09-11 12:14 PM
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7. Ironically they were championed by Samantha Powers and Susan Rice.
Not the normal suspects I imagine.
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Sat Apr-09-11 12:32 PM
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9. IMHO, Powers and Rice were, sadly, used to accomplish agendas made elsewhere.
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Sat Apr-09-11 12:31 PM
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8. Both Defense and the DNI provided strong assessments that case for
intervention was EXAGGERATED and not based on best intelligence. Did Obama make this decision? Or was this Hillary's deal with France, England and the House of Saud.
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Sat Apr-09-11 11:53 AM
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3. Wait, so getting in to another war won't save us money?
Did someone tell the president before he authorized the attacks?
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Sat Apr-09-11 12:10 PM
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Sat Apr-09-11 12:13 PM
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6. Apparently not if you're an elected official
or maybe they don't care. They will get paid regardless.
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