Our 600 million dollar lie in Iraq
We are putting the finishing touches on the 600 million dollar embassy in Baghdad, the biggest and most expensive Embassy in the world.

Doesn't this give the lie to a quick return for GI's?
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> Shocking! Outrageous! The corruption and collusion never go away; and
> what's worse, this abuse of our tax money is right in your face....
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> Are we going to say, "here, take this 600 million dollar gift for us in
> exchange for the fact that the electricity doesn't run and the water
> doesn't
> flow.?"
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> Come on.
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> I am sure that the Iraqis will treat this the same way they did Saddam's
> palaces the moment we were to leave.
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> No, we shall never leave. It will be the perennial lie: "Oh, yes, we
> intend to send some troops home next year..." but there will always be a
>reason
> for our presence...
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> Ask the Koreans after fifty years whether they still love the presence of
> America in their land.
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> We have no reason to be there. The Koreans can take care of themselves.
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> Policing the world is simply another aspect of Colonialism of eggregious
> eco-nationalism writ large and paid for by the people of a democracy who
>largely
> don't want to be there.
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> Obviously, that was never in our plans.
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> With one of the world's largest supplies of oil, we were always planning to
> stay there.
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> Inside the Green Zone where everything is nice and comfy and only the lowly
> troopers have to go out and get themselves killed sustaining an oil effort
> heaped in lies and subterfuge.
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> We surely need a new 600 million dollar cathedral to lies and greed like we
> do a hole in the head..
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> Wouldn't those GI's rather see the cost of this insane Embassy put into
> catching up on the backlog of GI's who need and deserve treatment but don't
>get
> it because we don't have the money.
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> If nothing else, this puts the cap on all of the lies we have blitzed with
> continually over the last five years about turning Iraq into
> a democracy. We don't give a rat's ass about democracy; we are just there
> to lock up the black stuff in the ground. Period.
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> What does this guy know about a democracy; he's already destroyed ours...
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> And nobody with half a brain should trust him.
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> The very fact that about half of the republicans do shows how screwed up
> this country is and how far we have to go to clean this pit of stupidity,
> ignorance and collusion.
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> I am not a believer in violence of any kind; I've seen too much of it.
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> But I am also a history buff who realized that our founding fathers,
> peaceful people with no desire for violence, were forced to do what was
> necessary to
> bring us freedom and a government of laws and a constitution that has held
> up over two hundred years.
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> It is time perhaps to recognize that sometimes we must stand up to end
> torture, violence, lies, corruption, soldiers for oil policies and that we
>must
> stand tall to end the government's violation of the constitution, habeas
> corpus, the First Amendment, privacy considerations.
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> In the end, it is we who are the leaders....
> Les Aaron
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