Community | March 19, 2010 | 32 comments

Iraq: Thousands Dead, $747.3 Billion Spent And Not Any Safer

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdnnRAf1Yio

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32 comments // Iraq: Thousands Dead, $747.3 Billion Spent And Not Any Safer // Video

  • CaptB
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      CaptB  

    • We will be pulling out of Iraq in the near future. We are in a draw down right now.

      We need to continue our efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan on combating the Alquada (sic) terrorist.

      I just wonder how many Iraqi lives were lost from Bush wanting to first find WMD. Then to spread democracy after there were no WMD. But the oil profits were too good to pass up. 20 million or 40 million Iraqi lives?

    • 1 year ago
  • artemis6
  • JonRaymond
  • that_one_dude
  • shanklinmike
  • shanklinmike
  • bking74
  • ibrake4rappers13
  • Crenshaw_Brothers
  • GodsnLiberals
  • shanklinmike
  • irie_ojo
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      irie_ojo  
    • GodsnLiberals:

      once again ignorant.... we are there and have been there for years ( before bush jr sent us there) for the oil not freedom of any kind. the US also could give a shit if it gets any safer..... while no one is paying attention they are taking all the oil they can grab.

    • 1 year ago
  • carmalite
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      carmalite  

    • Oh but the rich got richer and Halliburton's stock went way up. The oil companies made out like bandits and the parasites running the contracting firms got rich too. Just think how Eric Prince has benefited from this war. Good Christian Eric knew how to make money off death.

    • 1 year ago
  • bking74
  • maddogger
  • CarolineS
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      CarolineS  

    • I'd love to know the cost of these wars to the UK, our government apparantly needs to make up a few billion to help with the economy, so they are selling off companies like the student loans company, and apparantly the port of dover.
      If they really wanted to save money, then pull out of these two wars for a year or two and we'll save enough money to bring the economy back to life and save few thousand lives in the process, but then that would be common sense, and as we all know our "leaders" severely lack common sense

    • 1 year ago
  • GodsnLiberals
  • carmalite
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      carmalite  
    • GodsnLiberals:

      But all the red republicans were so gung ho for this war. They justified it endlessly and called anyone who was against it a traitor.
      Now they are unhappy with the war. Awwww poor babes.

    • 1 year ago
  • bking74
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      bking74  
    • carmalite:

      I am career military, a bit conservative for current but I can't stand it when Americans voice their opinion on the war/military/foreign policy and if it doesn't corresponds with certain elements of our society those Americans are labeled "traitors" simply because they share a different view. What those ignorant fcuks don't realize is that the majority of us have dedicated our lives so that all American's can have what beliefs or opinions they want.

    • 1 year ago
  • shanklinmike
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      shanklinmike  
    • GodsnLiberals:

      Actually, he promised more war in Pakistan, the mainstream media just didn't blare that part of it. Fox hushed that to make him look like a peacemonger so the warmongers would stay with the reps and think he was weak on terror.

    • 1 year ago
  • GodsnLiberals
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      GodsnLiberals  
    • carmalite:

      well were you not "gung-ho" in getting obama elected because he was going to end this...??

      it did nto end and as a matter of fact not only does it continue but obama seems to had take it up a notch..

      does it make you feel betrayed?? stupid?? treated like a fool..??

    • 1 year ago
  • shanklinmike
  • GodsnLiberals
  • bking74
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      bking74  
    • shanklinmike:

      The mainstream media might not have focussed as much as they should have but in Obama's defense he was always honest from the start that he was planning on a massive military escalation in Afghanistan.

    • 1 year ago
  • bking74
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      bking74  
    • GodsnLiberals:

      Thank you for your patriotism and support, honestly it means a lot. I have been called a baby killer, terrorist and a monster. None of it bothers me, it's just tiny words from people who honestly don't know what the fuck they are talking about. I feel sad for them, they don't even realize the lives that were lost and sacrifices that were freely given so those idiots could enjoy the basic freedoms they take for granted. Taken the time to even show them that their petty little words matter if more then they deserve. Idiots like that would take the word "traitor" and wear it with a misguided, unearned pride.

    • 1 year ago
  • irie_ojo
  • artemis6
  • jswiz
  • GodsnLiberals
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      GodsnLiberals  
    • jswiz:

      its hard to think of healtcare reform when someone is trying to ram a 747 up your ass at every opprotunity..humm wonder how much that would cost to remove a 747 out of someone ass?

    • 1 year ago
  • shanklinmike
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      shanklinmike  
    • jswiz:

      it's not about the price tag, it's about who supplies it. I don't want coercion on peaceful people. I'm tired of the government backed corporatism. There is no utopia, but individual rights are the closest thing to it.

    • 1 year ago
  • shanklinmike
  • theultimateend
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      theultimateend  
    • GodsnLiberals:

      Yes because in US history that sort of thing has been going on far too often.

      You do realize the likelihood of anyone you ever meet in your entire life dying from any terrorist act is far less than the chance of you being struck twice by lightning?

      They aren't exactly wizards. Nobody is ever going to let another asshat take over the cockpit of a plane regardless of the expensive airport security that doesn't work :P.

      But I understand I'm just feeding a troll here.

    • 1 year ago
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