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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Carl on February 11, 2008, 07:03:03 PM
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trof (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-11-08 06:30 PM
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I know how to make the Iraq 'War' drastically less expensive.
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I think I just had one of them epiphany thangs.
They been tellin' us that "We need to fight 'em over there so we don't have to fight em over here".
They got it backwards.
We NEED to fight 'em right...over...HERE!
Here's why:
1. It's INCREDIBLY expensive to haul all those soldiers and equipment 'over there'. It costs in the brazillions of dollars to do that. If we fight 'em over here 99% of that cost of transportation vanishes.
2. It's INCREDIBLY expensive to support our troops 'over there'. We can feed and house them much cheaper right here.
3. Global Warming/Pollution - All that JP-4 (jet fuel) and oil we're burning to get planes and ships and everything and everyone 'over there' and back?
Not any more.
4. Fewer 'enemy combatants'.
How many Iraqis/Afghanis/Al Queda/insurgents/suicide bombers/snipers do you think could actually afford to come 'over here'?
Not too effin' many, I'll tell ya.
Will they be able to pay extra to check a second bag?
No way.
These guys, if they have a job at all, make about $3 a YEAR!
5. Easier ID of the 'bad guys'.
'Over there', they look just like everybody else.
'Over here' they'd kind of stand out, don't-cha think?
I mean how many cab drivers can New York absorb and assimilate?
So there it is folks.
We don't WANT to fight 'em over there.
That's a losing proposition.
Let's fight 'em over here where there won't be near as many of 'em and we can find 'em easier.
This is a no-brainer.
Your comments will be given every consideration.
Thank you.
These are the people that want to be in control of national security. :thatsright:
CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-11-08 06:35 PM
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3. My dear trof!
I believe you're onto something!
K&R
Bunny (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-11-08 06:37 PM
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4. Great idea! The soldiers could go home on the weekends!
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IzaSparrow (599 posts) Mon Feb-11-08 06:40 PM
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7. HAHAHAHA
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-11-08 06:46 PM
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9. trof 4 prez!
And on to the Greatest!
GloriaSmith (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-11-08 06:47 PM
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10. The trick is getting the Iraqi's to come over here
Damn those lazy Iraqi's. They'll probably be soooo self absorbed in doing stupid things like rebuilding their homes and roads and stuff that they'll completely forget out us. Can't they stop fussing over their broken infrastructure for one freakin' second to think about US and our needs???
And after all the attention we paid them all these years...and so close to Valentine's Day.
:bird: :bird: :bird: :bird:
Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-11-08 07:37 PM
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21. K&R too funny for words!
Scary stuff. :censored:
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4. Fewer 'enemy combatants'.
How many Iraqis/Afghanis/Al Queda/insurgents/suicide bombers/snipers do you think could actually afford to come 'over here'?
Not too effin' many, I'll tell ya.
Enough to hijack 4 airplanes. :banghead: :banghead:
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what sort of price tag do you put on 3,000 americans? is that the equation that is being drawn here? what about another 3,000 americans, or perhaps even more?
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4. Fewer 'enemy combatants'.
How many Iraqis/Afghanis/Al Queda/insurgents/suicide bombers/snipers do you think could actually afford to come 'over here'?
Not too effin' many, I'll tell ya.
Enough to hijack 4 airplanes. :banghead: :banghead:
Yeah, and that was with 19 people (actually supposed to be 20). So if they sent even just 1000 people over, that's 200 airplanes hijacked.
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Damn that No Military Draft thing. It is driving them over the edge at this late stage of the Bush Administration.
The moonbats have to conjer up more and more wacky crap to justify their hatred for the USA. None of it would be necessary if we just had a darn draft. Dammit.
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Damn that No Military Draft thing. It is driving them over the edge at this late stage of the Bush Administration.
The moonbats have to conjer up more and more wacky crap to justify their hatred for the USA. None of it would be necessary if we just had a darn draft. Dammit.
can't blame charlie rangel. he tried.
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Damn that No Military Draft thing. It is driving them over the edge at this late stage of the Bush Administration.
The moonbats have to conjer up more and more wacky crap to justify their hatred for the USA. None of it would be necessary if we just had a darn draft. Dammit.
can't blame charlie rangel. he tried.
I know. The rethugicans would have probably helped him.
This "antiwar" movement is so without an anchor. Without the draft, they are protesting the freedom of individuals to enlist, and that is such a no-win platform. It's like protesting the circus for making the Human cannonball perform.
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Damn that No Military Draft thing. It is driving them over the edge at this late stage of the Bush Administration.
The moonbats have to conjer up more and more wacky crap to justify their hatred for the USA. None of it would be necessary if we just had a darn draft. Dammit.
can't blame charlie rangel. he tried.
I know. The rethugicans would have probably helped him.
This "antiwar" movement is so without an anchor. Without the draft, they are protesting the freedom of individuals to enlist, and that is such a no-win platform. It's like protesting the circus for making the Human cannonball perform.
you know, now that you mention it, all those anti-war freshmen representatives and senators that were just elected in the mini tsunami that swept the dems into power . . . . . sort of just disappeared right off the face of the earth, didn't they?
just off the top pf my head . . .
after his firearms violation, where is jim webb? or that kid that played for TN, sucked for the redskins, and vanished from the NFL? or that mildly retarded man that somehow beat rick santorum? where did these people disappear to?
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I know. The rethugicans would have probably helped him.
This "antiwar" movement is so without an anchor. Without the draft, they are protesting the freedom of individuals to enlist, and that is such a no-win platform. It's like protesting the circus for making the Human cannonball perform.
you know, now that you mention it, all those anti-war freshmen representatives and senators that were just elected in the mini tsunami that swept the dems into power . . . . . sort of just disappeared right off the face of the earth, didn't they?
just off the top pf my head . . .
after his firearms violation, where is jim webb? or that kid that played for TN, sucked for the redskins, and vanished from the NFL? or that mildly retarded man that somehow beat rick santorum? where did these people disappear to?
Those folks were just a few names on a day-glo poster. They were only evident when the lights were off. Most of the democrat newcomers are in congress because they ran as Ronald Reagan's ghost. They ran as conservatives and have to act like conservatives or they are out of there in nine months. That is what the MSM won't tell the feeble-minded masses.
The new and predictable meme is that conservatism is dead and George W. Bush killed it. That is SOOOOOOOO ridiculous. That is like saying glamour is dead and Phyllis Diller killed it.
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what sort of price tag do you put on 3,000 americans? is that the equation that is being drawn here? what about another 3,000 americans, or perhaps even more?
Ah, what's few thousand dead Americans now and then, as long as the world still loves us and Halliburton isn't making money?
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Damn that No Military Draft thing. It is driving them over the edge at this late stage of the Bush Administration.
The moonbats have to conjer up more and more wacky crap to justify their hatred for the USA. None of it would be necessary if we just had a darn draft. Dammit.
Would you really want the likes of DUmmy trof going against the enemy??? I think he'd (or any other DUmmy) would more than likely point their rifles the other way. Wouldn't put it past them in the least bit.
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5. Easier ID of the 'bad guys'.
'Over there', they look just like everybody else.
'Over here' they'd kind of stand out, don't-cha think?
I mean how many cab drivers can New York absorb and assimilate?
That sounds somewhat like profiling and you loons are supposed to hate profiling. Remember, if a 20+ year old muslim of mideastern descent with a suitcase with wires hanging out of it is standing next to an 80 year old English granny with a hand purse, we must assume that the granny is the potential terrorist. To do otherwise would be profiling, and profiling is wrong.
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what sort of price tag do you put on 3,000 americans? is that the equation that is being drawn here? what about another 3,000 americans, or perhaps even more?
WE, the next attack will cost far more lives. But, that might be what it takes to make the American people wake up.
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what sort of price tag do you put on 3,000 americans? is that the equation that is being drawn here? what about another 3,000 americans, or perhaps even more?
WE, the next attack will cost far more lives. But, that might be what it takes to make the American people wake up.
Unfortunately, you are probably right. The price of poker just keeps rising.
People like the DUmpers get inured to the number, and rationalize it away, never realizing that next time , it may be 30,000, or 300,000. One successful WMD attack in a major city will not only result in horrific physical carnage, but will deal the economy a devastating blow that will make the Great Depression look like a bull market.
The fact that we have not been successfully attacked since 911 doesn't mean that they've stopped trying.
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They won't be happy until there is another attack on US soil. This truly is the advanced stages of BDS.