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yurbud

(39,405 posts)
Wed Sep 10, 2014, 03:28 PM Sep 2014

Will Obama talk about how we'll pay for military action? or GOP balk at cost? [View all]

After all the budget poor talk and sequestration, that should be front and center since ISIS is not a credible threat to the US, and our bombing of Syria is more likely about getting rid of Assad in any case.


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It doesn't matter!!! Beheading, rape! Islamic State!
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