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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 07:27 AM Original message |
Libya no-fly: $15 billion per year. Hungry children: shared sacrifice. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 07:28 AM Response to Original message |
1. Why not just give them $15 billion to split if they stop fighting. |
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katnapped (938 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 07:28 AM Response to Original message |
2. Exactly what I'd been thinking |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 07:30 AM Response to Original message |
3. Ah, the unrec-ers are voracious |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 07:32 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Probably the very same people |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 07:31 AM Response to Original message |
4. Misplaced priorities. |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 07:32 AM Response to Original message |
5. Imperialism on steroids |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 07:41 AM Response to Original message |
7. I've been mulling this over too this morning |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 07:54 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. If only we knew that the rebels were an improvement |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 08:21 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. personally, our government doesn't give a shit who runs the country |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
9. Don't be so negative: The no-fly zone won't last for anywhere near a year |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 08:09 AM Response to Original message |
10. These scenarios probably make faulty assumptions. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 08:15 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. "No one could have predicted." |
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Aerows (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 10:48 AM Response to Reply #11 |
18. I'm waiting for that one, too |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 11:11 AM Response to Reply #10 |
21. Stop making sense. You're harshing the vibe. |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
13. Aw, buck up Manny. It'll be a cake walk. |
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ReturnoftheDjedi (839 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
14. when you're so extreme in your beliefs that you piss on an international effort to save people from |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 10:27 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Iraq was an international effort to save people from slaughter, too |
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ReturnoftheDjedi (839 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 10:43 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. This is not even close to Iraq. There was no Civil War there. |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
16. The "Do-Something" Neocons have it all figured out, surely. |
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Distant Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
19. Libya is a 5m pop country with only 2 major cities, but $TRILLIONS. of untapped OIL and GAS reserves |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-18-11 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
20. This might be the best use of $300 million a week in the whole defense budget. |
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