On 7/13/10 9:27 AM, Harold wrote:
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On 7/13/10 8:26 AM, YukonBound wrote:


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On 7/13/10 7:44 AM, BAR wrote:
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You were going to have a mission shift if we went into Afghanistan
in
force. The original plan was a covert hit squad.

Who is "you"? Bush let Rumsfeld dictate a tiny army with no ability
to have
boots on the ground, despite the recommendations from the military.

The rhetorical you.
We are proving a huge army is not much more effective in the
mountains
than a little hit team.

Most people have no concept of what the military is like and what it
requires.

Sure we do. The military is like a garbage disposal in which you pour
$500 to $600 billion a year and then watch your money go down the
drain.

Once we are out of the Bush Recession/Depression, and there are real
jobs around, we need to cut military spending by half, and, at the
same time raise pay and benefits substantially for a much smaller
active duty force that would be better suited for the sort of trouble
and nonsense we face today.

The $300 billion a year we'd save could go to far more important
needs, such as rebuilding infrastructure, funding schools properly,
providing life-long job training for working adults, et cetera.

These days, massive military expenditures get you...nothing.


Helps lifetime senior officers create their own little empires and
makes
the favoured suppliers/contractors filthy rich.


And when they retire, they go to work for the contractors.

Where did you and your little ball licker gain your military expertise?



Some of us read, flajim, and, if you read, you learn about the
machinations of the military-industrial complex.

You are quite the reader, however, to have a balanced, objective point of
view you need to begin reading materials that are not on the approved
reading list provided by your handlers. It must be tough for you stumbling
through life wearing horse blinders. But, on the other hand, what you can't
see won't spook you.
Here's one you can start with that should help loosen the grip your handlers
have on your mind.
http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/book/flajimsucks




Sorry, flajim, but I have no interest in reading tomes from right-wing
**** slingers.

Surely you are not trying to deny that the military and its contractors
wipe each others' asses during and after "service."