Comments on: Long-term presence in Iraq = trillions in taxpayer dollars. http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:15:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: daytripper http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-4086248 daytripper Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:42:13 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/#comment-4086248 <em>Generations of TRUE Americans have died and struggled to attain and defend these rights which you are throwing away ! No one wants our country to collapse or be attacked but <strong>some seem to have no problem with our doing these things to other sovereign nations !</strong></em> Thats the real "blow-back" of the modern era. these spooks have plied their trade for decades overseas, and now they are it bringing back onto US soil. they have suddenly realised that their methods of manipulating foriegn states and governments are just as easily applied on home turf. what people must realise is that there is a (rogue) network of military/political/intelligence/economic elite that have turned their decades old ways on their own country. Their only motivations are money and power. they are anti-democratic, anti-rights, anti-liberty. None of these things are required for their version of capitalism, which is marxism with shinier cars. Generations of TRUE Americans have died and struggled to attain and defend these rights which you are throwing away ! No one wants our country to collapse or be attacked but some seem to have no problem with our doing these things to other sovereign nations !

Thats the real “blow-back” of the modern era. these spooks have plied their trade for decades overseas, and now they are it bringing back onto US soil. they have suddenly realised that their methods of manipulating foriegn states and governments are just as easily applied on home turf.
what people must realise is that there is a (rogue) network of military/political/intelligence/economic elite that have turned their decades old ways on their own country. Their only motivations are money and power. they are anti-democratic, anti-rights, anti-liberty. None of these things are required for their version of capitalism, which is marxism with shinier cars.

]]> By: theswan http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-4085231 theswan Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:43:18 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/#comment-4085231 Open your wallets, children. Open your wallets, children.

]]> By: freeman http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-4085127 freeman Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:03:32 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/#comment-4085127 The chosen people is just another name for ethnocentrism ,Racism .Before you can commit an act of inhumanity it always helps to dehumanize you enemy ! Helps you to sleep at night ! Atleast half of the old testament is an indictment against racism ! Does your God advocate raping ,pillaging and slavery ,because the god of the old testament does . The chosen people is just another name for ethnocentrism ,Racism .Before you can commit an act of inhumanity it always helps to dehumanize you enemy ! Helps you to sleep at night !
Atleast half of the old testament is an indictment against racism ! Does your God advocate raping ,pillaging and slavery ,because the god of the old testament does .

]]> By: freeman http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-4085117 freeman Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:58:38 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/#comment-4085117 God bless everyone , not just the USA. Hypocrites are easy to find ,look in the churches ,among the pious . Many are called but few are chosen . God bless everyone , not just the USA.
Hypocrites are easy to find ,look in the churches ,among the pious .
Many are called but few are chosen .

]]> By: freeman http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-4085102 freeman Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:53:56 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/#comment-4085102 Jesus thought so too ,or you wouldn't be here telling me that your a christian ,because you are a gentile ,but God sees no colors ! We are all Gods children ,any other perspective is just an excuse to hate ! Jesus thought so too ,or you wouldn’t be here telling me that your a christian ,because you are a gentile ,but God sees no colors ! We are all Gods children ,any other perspective is just an excuse to hate !

]]> By: freeman http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-4085095 freeman Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:51:55 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/#comment-4085095 Nationalism is racism . Nationalism is racism .

]]> By: freeman http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-4085090 freeman Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:50:35 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/#comment-4085090 Generations of TRUE Americans have died and struggled to attain and defend these rights which you are throwing away ! No one wants our country to collapse or be attacked but some seem to have no problem with our doing these things to other sovereign nations ! The world is too small for this attitude any longer ,try solving global warming unilaterally . One world ,One people , one destiny . Bob Marley Generations of TRUE Americans have died and struggled to attain and defend these rights which you are throwing away ! No one wants our country to collapse or be attacked but some seem to have no problem with our doing these things to other sovereign nations ! The world is too small for this attitude any longer ,try solving global warming unilaterally .
One world ,One people , one destiny .
Bob Marley

]]> By: freeman http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-4085080 freeman Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:46:21 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/#comment-4085080 HABEAS CORPUS is the right that ALL other rights guaranteed by our constitution hang upon ,without it the constitution is no more than window dressing ! HABEAS CORPUS is the right that ALL other rights guaranteed by our constitution hang upon ,without it the constitution is no more than window dressing !

]]> By: alphainfinityomega http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-4085073 alphainfinityomega Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:43:31 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/#comment-4085073 Don't think for a minute that this wasn't the plan all along. The only glitch was we weren't greeted as liberators. <strong>∞</strong> Don’t think for a minute that this wasn’t the plan all along.
The only glitch was we weren’t greeted as liberators.

∞

]]> By: freeman http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-4085071 freeman Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:43:09 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/#comment-4085071 But you trust george bush or so you said yesterday , despite the fact that the lead up to war was an obvious con job and has taken the lives of 3/4 of a million people ,wounded several times that ,and is being run by oil exec'c who wrote pre 911 of their intention to invade the mid east to control the developing world .WAR CRIMES ! I don't think much of our bought and paid for Democratic representitives either ,but I have gone on record and repeatedly said so ,where as your statements seem obviously republican ,whatever your calling yourself . But you trust george bush or so you said yesterday , despite the fact that the lead up to war was an obvious con job and has taken the lives of 3/4 of a million people ,wounded several times that ,and is being run by oil exec’c who wrote pre 911 of their intention to invade the mid east to control the developing world .WAR CRIMES !
I don’t think much of our bought and paid for Democratic representitives either ,but I have gone on record and repeatedly said so ,where as your statements seem obviously republican ,whatever your calling yourself .

]]> By: freeman http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-4085055 freeman Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:38:19 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/#comment-4085055 As the law now stands Jake ,in thre hands of any future president American citizens have no rights under our constitution . As the law now stands Jake ,in thre hands of any future president American citizens have no rights under our constitution .

]]> By: beep52 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-4085054 beep52 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:37:55 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/#comment-4085054 Two trillion dollars? I guess that shoots the wad on the New American Century. Two trillion dollars? I guess that shoots the wad on the New American Century.

]]> By: TripMaster Monkey http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-4085049 TripMaster Monkey Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:36:18 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/#comment-4085049 Jake D. sez: <blockquote><em>As for being taken seriously, I don’t expect that any more than Stephen Colbert</em></blockquote> Ahh, so you're merely doing a <em>satirical impression</em> of a mouthbreathing, jackbooted, goosestepping neocon apologist? That would explain why so many of your posts are so recursively satirical. <blockquote><em>I am also upset that the U.S. is slowly becoming a fascist state ; )</em></blockquote> Oh yes, you seem to be <i>so</i> upset... Your posts to date would belie this assertion even if you had not qualified it with your little winky smiley-face. Jake D. sez:

As for being taken seriously, I don’t expect that any more than Stephen Colbert

Ahh, so you’re merely doing a satirical impression of a mouthbreathing, jackbooted, goosestepping neocon apologist?

That would explain why so many of your posts are so recursively satirical.

I am also upset that the U.S. is slowly becoming a fascist state ; )

Oh yes, you seem to be so upset…

Your posts to date would belie this assertion even if you had not qualified it with your little winky smiley-face.

]]> By: freeman http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-4084955 freeman Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:02:04 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/#comment-4084955 According to mohammed there are 2 angels ,perched on your shoulders recording your thought speach and actions ,so answer very carefully ,God is watching . According to mohammed there are 2 angels ,perched on your shoulders recording your thought speach and actions ,so answer very carefully ,God is watching .

]]> By: freeman http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-4084949 freeman Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:00:13 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/#comment-4084949 If your charged by mistake for a crime of which you are innpocent ,after the loss of Habeas corpus you will rot in the kings dungeon .No day in court ,and you actually support that ?And you expect to be taken seriously ? If your charged by mistake for a crime of which you are innpocent ,after the loss of Habeas corpus you will rot in the kings dungeon .No day in court ,and you actually support that ?And you expect to be taken seriously ?

]]> By: freeman http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-4084943 freeman Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:57:26 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/#comment-4084943 The republican . The republican .

]]> By: freeman http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-4084942 freeman Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:56:40 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/#comment-4084942 I loved the list of your most memorable quotes posted yesterday ,by another blogger .It was a nice Fox sound bite collection . If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck .......Its Jake I loved the list of your most memorable quotes posted yesterday ,by another blogger .It was a nice Fox sound bite collection .
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck …….Its Jake

]]> By: freeman http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-4084924 freeman Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:52:07 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/#comment-4084924 Jake you do more here to convince people to abandon your party than a 100 left wing bloggers.Your a christian who likes war and torture ,a patriot who has no problem with the loss of the most basic rights guaranteed under the constitution. Keep up the good work .I hope they pay you well for this . Jake you do more here to convince people to abandon your party than a 100 left wing bloggers.Your a christian who likes war and torture ,a patriot who has no problem with the loss of the most basic rights guaranteed under the constitution.
Keep up the good work .I hope they pay you well for this .

]]> By: TripMaster Monkey http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-4084904 TripMaster Monkey Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:45:11 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/#comment-4084904 A.Political, You beat me to it...thanks. <b>^_^</b> A.Political,

You beat me to it…thanks. ^_^

]]> By: A.Political http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-4084892 A.Political Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:40:15 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/long-term-presence-in-iraq-trillions-in-taxpayer-dollars/#comment-4084892 Jake D: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/topstories/home/feeds/ap/2007/09/20/ap4139335.html" rel="nofollow">Stocks Trade Flat After Two-Day Rally </a> Well, that was short lived ;) Jake D:
Stocks Trade Flat After Two-Day Rally

Well, that was short lived ;)

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