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kcjapan
President Barack Obama has coddled AWOL Bush's war of lies and the Shia-Tea profiteers for seven long years. Bush had his opportunity to lie and deign while the American Public was held hostage to the Shia-Tea war on terror for years and years.
Here's a suggestion, the war is over.
They won! The Shia-Tea profiteers left the US with forty years of bills to pay and not one child left behind who won't suffer for AWOL's deceptions.
So, America, 'you break it you bought' boo hoo. End of.
If you're looking for retribution send Bush over there to finish his wars of lies. Maybe conscription for AWOL is the best remedy, obviously there isn't enough money in the world to pay for his deceptions. And, as many already know, there's no way to pay for the 100,000 innocent dead of Iraq.
It's time to stop blaming Barack for Bush.
MarkG
First of all Afghanistan was justified Iraq I opposed but it happened from both sides of the isle and many of that 100,000 you refer to were deserving or killed by their own.
Second, I covered before the shi-tea party you refer to is for more freedom. Quite the opposite of the Shia. GOP-Shia would be much more appropriate as they was more governing and less personal freedom.
And third, the money wasted in Afghanistan is not as much as Obama wasted on the green initiative, stimulus, welfare, obamacare, Obama phones, shovel ready jobs (that didn't pan out) and the immense collateral damage yet to unfold. No wonder Trump is polling well, he is a no BS business man knowing solvency.
Libya, Syria, and Iran belong to Obama. He'll pass it on to the republican president in 13 months from now.
kcjapan
Here's a factor. Seven Trillion, with 38 years left to pay on AWOL Bush's debt. Here's a factor, Bush lied thirty thousand Americans into life altering maiming. Here's a factor, AWOL Bush's bestest buddies made a very nice profit spending American wealth on their private profit. (Including Vice President Cheney's Halliburton)
So, how many more lives and tax dollars will AWOL Bush get to spend on his dementia?
According to Top General-San, the rest of the next century of American wealth will be used to shield AWOL Bush's lies in a perpetual campaign of "he kept us safe".
So far, his dummy Rump will say whatever it takes to again sell wars of profiteers, probably including Mr. Rump? Lord knows, Rump's no fool. Nice to know those American kids have all the money in the world to pay for AWOL's Rump.
bass4funk
But what has he down except buying a stash of "Fruit of the loom" yellow T-shirts?
As the same goes for Barack Hussein, why are you not outraged as the majority of Generals in the Pentagon are?
Tell that to ISIS, Al Qaida, Iran and the other radical Islamists destabilizing the region
As well as the Dems with their entitlements, even more so. But libs forget LBJ that started to drain the country of its wealth by spreading socialism and crippling the Black and Latino communities.
I agree.
Bush spends a lot of time with wounded vets, spends a lot of time and private money helping kids in Africa, what has Obama done for the wounded soldiers that died on his watch or being half African, when has he visited Africa and spent his money to help people in his ancestral homeland?
But what about the majority of Iraqis that died as a result of the sectarian violence? That doesn't bother you?
So now it's back to smelling incense, the bong and escaping to the liberal sanctuary?
Here is another factor...So then how are we going to pay for Obama's $18 Trillion (soon to be $20 Trillion) as in true liberal fashion? Math is not a liberals strongpoint.
And Obama when he became president, he was handed a stable Iraq and what did Biden say on Larry King that Iraq under Obama once the troops are withdrawn will be the greatest achievement of his admin. So basically, if Iraq or Afgahnistan is a success, Obama takes the credit, if it's a failure, blame it on Bush...ROFLMAO!
Here we go again, so making money is bad, and we shouldn't allow our soldiers to buy uniforms and products from the US, we should give that money to the French or the Chinese instead. No wonder businesses are leaving country, when libs have a problems supporting them.
How many more people will Obama finally get off living on food stamps? 45 million and rising is not enough?
At this rate, Obama will have disbanded our military. Treasonous? Hmmmm.....
Actually, NO. They're all paying for the anointed ones debt, plus Obamacare. Sigh....398 more days until Barack Hussein is out of office, that is something we can all take comfort in.
WilliB
KC-Japan:
What is "Shia-Tea"? You have been tossing this term around on several threads here, but never defined it. What does it mean?
kcjapan
What is "Shia-Tea"? Well, let's imagine a political party, say, in the States, that has a fiercely religious fan base. Let's imagine they wear tri-corn hats and scream "They want THEIR country back!" And, this imaginary party, is largely focused on biblical rationale for social, educational, medical and fiscal policies in State, Local and National Government.
Fortunately, this religiously obsessed political party is all just a fantasy and may exist in other countries or other forms of governance, but the wise and educated American is much too sophisticated to, say, shut down the government over a religious principle. That only happens in foreign countries, maybe like places in Afghanistan or some Middle Eastern countries.
This is why Gen. John F. Campbell has suggested Americans should continue their occupation of Afghanistan. The religious nature of the Afghan government's history and fundamentalism is dangerous and breeds all sorts of evil. Again, the lucky American hasn't any worry like those poor Afghanis. Fanatical religious belief has no place in structure and force of American government because the Founding Fathers warned repeatedly of the dangers of religion in the Constitution.
mukashiyokatta
Who is the commander-in-chief of such an inept military? What have you got to say for yourself?? Where is the apology? How come we are not seeing the photos and names of the dead doctors on the news, with Anderson Cooper saying, "we shall remember them..."? These guys who did the shelling, are they the ones who come back to the US crying that they have PTSD? Your victims wish they could have gotten off as lightly as that. The entire world now hates the US even more than they already did.
Black Sabbath
"The Never Ending Stoooooooory-----. La la la, la la la.
bass4funk
That is a broadly over the top accusation of a group that is diverse and multi-faceted.
If that were true, Obama wouldn't have been elected and we wouldn't have Trump or Sanders now. You giving the people too much credit.
Pretty much the same, they're ruled by dictators, so not much of a difference.
No, the reason is pure and simple. Obama as in Iraq has given a timetable of exactly when he wants to pull out the troops, all the Jihadists have to do is wait it out and look what happened after we left. The exact same thing will happen once we leave Afghanistan and as in Iraq, the military is not ready and not capable of handling the Taliban, they need assistance and leaving would create another vacuum and Obama didn't learn the first time and he wants to make the same mistake again???
And domestic terrorism, which the country has been dealing with and will continue to do so for the next 397 more days.
kcjapan
Yes, the gun nuts have racked up 294 mass murders with their lack of self control, mental stability and unlimited access to weapons of mass destruction.
Of course, the Shia-Tea and the NRA wouldn't have it any other way. Dictatorship of gun hysterics isn't any fun if there aren't multiple deaths monthly. And that a far more profitable business plan anyway.
America sure has a lot of work to do to return to a civilized society.
Some are lucky enough to run away when they don't like the President or some other nit they like to pick. Real Patriots stay and fix the country others have abandoned and broken even in the face of armed madmen who slaughter children in their schools.
It must be easy to run away; AWOL Bush showed Americans how. No wonder it's a popular tactic with the GOP Shia-Tea.
bass4funk
More like mental instability, that needs to be reassessed through building more mental asylums and thorough background checks.
Don't forget libs like Harry Reid that strongly support the NRA proudly.
Guns, bombs, abortion clinics all profitable business.
In 15 months, we hit the reset button.
After 7 years with this Tyrant, I'd run away as well.
In 15 months, a lot of those people will move back.
But Obama is running away, if he didn't, Putin wouldn't be calling the the shots.