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2009-08-24 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2009-08-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Oh god! Not this again...

Posted by 49 Pan 2009-08-24 00:18|| 2009-08-24 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 And not one mention of Bush-hiter or Cheney-hitler.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2009-08-24 00:25|| http://theworldsworstblog-really.blogspot.com/]">[http://theworldsworstblog-really.blogspot.com/] 2009-08-24 00:25|| Front Page Top

#3 I only wish Miss Emily was correct. Where is my free gas (and mortgage) that Obama promised?

Posted by ed 2009-08-24 00:48|| 2009-08-24 00:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Press TV is an English language international television news channel which is funded by the Iranian government, based in Tehran and broadcast in English on a round-the-clock schedule.

VOMM - Voice of Mad Mullahs. Clearly, they believe Ms. Spence has uncovered something.

Posted by Bobby 2009-08-24 06:58|| 2009-08-24 06:58|| Front Page Top

#5 "The US military... [has] approximately 1,000 bases worldwide...

I think her count may be off ever so slightly. But more importantly I must ask, how in the world can she tollerate living in such a country as this?

Posted by Besoeker 2009-08-24 07:09|| 2009-08-24 07:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Hey, I wish we would go for world domination. But that's just me. Next time someone chants "Death to America" Death should visit them. Or better yet, when they talk about how they will crush the "Great Satan", we should call up their ambassador and say, "Very well, the war starts in 24 hours, have fun"

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2009-08-24 09:50|| 2009-08-24 09:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Emily Spence, a Massachusetts-based author active in human rights, environmental, and social services efforts, believes that, in line with popular belief, Washington was after the Iraqi oil when it invaded the country in 2003.

Must be the Massachusetts wacky water. They have plenty of home-grown nuts like Sheila Leavitt, a nutty, annoying, unrelenting Newton leftie fake doctor, Bwawney Frank, Chappaquidick Teddy, troop-basher Kerry....

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091">Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-08-24 09:54|| 2009-08-24 09:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Spencer points out that US taxpayers are watching 73% of every tax dollar going to military expenditures (54%) and interest payments (19+%)? (With only 27% left for other things).

The last time I checked, the military was only about 20% of the federal budget. Where are these numbers coming from?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-08-24 10:15|| 2009-08-24 10:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Where are these numbers coming from?

She is pulling them from somewhere unwashed and very icky.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-08-24 10:27|| 2009-08-24 10:27|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm with brick.

Posted by Hellfish 2009-08-24 12:16|| 2009-08-24 12:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Spencer points out that US taxpayers are watching 73% of every tax dollar going to military expenditures (54%) and interest payments (19+%)? (With only 27% left for other things).

Every American who actually pays income tax knows what the real amount is because the IRS lists it in the 1040 instructions. Go to page 91 in the link. In, 2007 it was 20% of the budget. Don't expect the "professional journalist" or their layers of fact checkers to report facts that get in the way of those they're in bed with.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-08-24 21:29|| 2009-08-24 21:29|| Front Page Top

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