that's not the only reason - the billions paid by taxpayers for the
"rebuilding" of Iraq and Afghanistan that went to Dick Cheney's buddies - that
was an important reason for us to be there too
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On Sat, 1/25/14, Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Fighting for a Failed War
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, January 25, 2014, 5:34 PM
Let's not
forget that Afghanistan is
known as the graveyard of empires. Of course the
real reason the
US was there was so that billions if not trillions of
dollars
could be made by the military industrial complex.
It's all about
money. So "we" didn't speed $400B on
a stealth fighter, instead
the MIC stole our money.
On 01/25/2014 05:15 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com
wrote:
Yes, We
can thank
the West for that. Whenever we destabilize a
country,
obviously, or covertly, we leave the door
open to
zealots, who have been victims of this
heavy-handed
quest for resources and political influence.
The Taliban
and Al Qaida are the shadows we leave
behind, after
bombing the shit out of some country, or
using silent,
deadly drones to violently dismember a
family, or ten.
Fucking over third world countries used to
work so
efficiently; a puppet government in our
pocket and we
were off to the races, citizenry be damned.
Unfortunately, IEDs, cell phones and the
Internet
changed all that.
Now, things are at a point where we will
spend $400
Billion (yes, with a 'B') on a
stealth fighter, that is
already over a decade late (F-35), instead
of using that
money to directly help ourselves. We keep
hoping that if
we pour enough of our weapons into the
world, we can
somehow return to the good old bad days, of
'might is
right'.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
<s3raphita@...>
wrote:
What a
shit-hole Afghanistan has become. It
used to be a
hippie haven a long, long time ago.
Check out these
pictures of women in Afghanistan
pre-Taliban . . .
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/it_didnt_always_suck_to_be_a_woman_in_afghanistan
