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Published: 2016-08-17 22:48:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 750; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 2
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Actually, it's worse than that, because he made the highest sacrifice to enrich Halliburton, and they gave him jack shit in return.
Also, I highly doubt that you're a veteran yourself, so it's rather disingenuous of you to act like you have the right to speak for them.
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I don't have to be a Veteran to voice an opinionated statement on behalf of Military personnel.
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Not that you need it, but...
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Speaking as a veteran (Army), you have my permission to speak in my behalf.
And since Phracker's only criterion for speaking for all veterans is that one must be one...
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You have my permission to speak on behalf of all of us.
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Well, I'm pretty sure actual vets are more concerned with post-war trauma and the fact that the government leaves them homeless and destitute after war than they are with what a few brown people are doing.
Maybe this video will teach you some basic compassion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_l4Ab…
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As a gen-u-ine Army veteran, you do not have my permission to speak for me.
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And since you're only criterion for speaking for all veterans seems to be that one must be one...
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You do not have my permission to speak for us.
So knock it off.
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Well, since you clearly don't mind non-veterans speaking for all veterans according to your other comment, it seems I do have permission. If not, your permission seems rather arbitrary and based more on political bias than anything principled.
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No, it's based on logic and clear thinking.
No one who is incapable of either can speak for me.
So, Shhhhh, child.
Let the adults talk.
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Are you really a veteran? Because the way you write you come off like you're 12 and couldn't possibly have been in the military. Until you prove otherwise I will have to assume that you just made that part up to silence those you disagree with, which is extremely insulting to those who actually fought in a war and ended up homeless and impoverished afterward. Also, your profile is a bunch of right-wing hillbilly rants about dirty moose-limbs and spics stealin' our jobs, so I think I'm right in saying that your standards are based on political bias after all.
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Yes but Shitty Arabia needs our oil money dammit! Therefore this okay.
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dollar must be preserved
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I would go at least as far as 1917.
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I think the idea was to keep these other forces fighting among themselves instead of the US. . .and none of the idiots who came up the idea thought of a possible 'Frankenstein Scenario'.
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I don't know if they do or not, but I wouldn't put it past them.
Governments can make big money off of wars. It stimulates innovation, the economy, gives them excuses to test out their new weapons and allows them to control the public through scapegoats and fearmongering.
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The problem: if it's your own enemy that you're helping, you could end up getting yourself nuked.
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Not if you monitor them and make sure that they can't use nukes. But yeah, I could easily see this getting out of hand...
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I've heard that the Iran Nuclear Deal included a part that said that Iran didn't have to let US inspectors into their plants... They could do the inspections themselves. This is a country whose leaders chant, "Death to America!" What a bad idea.
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Oh look. Another post that you're not being stupid on. Keep this up. You shit out a few gems once and a while.
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No, it's not that-the weapons deal with Saudi Arabia. However, that is a fine example of crony capitalism and empire building.
No, it's the support to Isis and other such groups. It's the refusal to call it here what it truly is: islamic terrorism. It's the scrubbing of FBI training material of any mention of islam. It's the DHS going after, ironically in the picture, veterans as possible targets of right-wing extremist indoctrination. It's the publishing of "training" slides that says Evangelicals are the same as terrorists-slides prepared with the help of the SPLC.
With our fracking, we've beaten OPEC. And this was on private land.
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That is absolutely sick. Here is a great comic explaining the difference between Muslim extremists and Christian extremists, for those who are so indoctrinated that they think Christians are a threat to anyone: adam4d.com/radical/
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You mean the weapons deal with Saudi Arabia? Because if you're mad about that you should hate what Trump said he'd do.
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Some will claim that we have always funded them... ignoring the facts on the ground at the time: There weren't many choices, if any. And a lot of the people we backed in those days are on Our side- but they aren't the ones who ended up in power afterwards. (thinking of Afghanistan in the 80s)
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Yes.
Exactly.
You should have done that research BEFORE.
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The never ending leftie war for oil needs to end.
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Jimmy Carter was president when 'Operation Cyclone'; the arming and financing of the Mujaheddin began and it continued all throughout Reagan's time in office. It's not just a 'leftie' thing. Both the Democrats and Republicans are creating conditions in the Middle East for terrorism to thrive.
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