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From: "6139 Dead, 1282 since 1/20/09" <d...@gone.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 01:37:09 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Fri, Jul 22 2011 9:37 pm
Subject: Re: The Price of War could get you thousands of bridges and more

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>>Let's add the "small change" from the War on Drugs, and we got ourselves
>>a couple of thousand bridges and more.

>>Why does it take a monkey to realize the wars have a cost?

>>http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6quMm-tMqyE/S_T9UYcuKQI/AAAAAAAAAAM/

micdK_MFhdg/s1600-R/ThinkingMonkey.jpg

>>I simply don't know. I give up.

>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------

>>http://webspawner.com/users/BANANAREVOLUTION

> Yeah, you could save the money of the war and build bridges, but just
> because you don't go kick  the enemy's ass, doesn't mean he isn't still
> the enemy, and will travel to your new bridge and blow it up, or knock
> it down, or whatever else... because he's still your enemy.

> You have to kick his ass to convince him that attacking the USA is a
> really bad idea.  If you don't do it, then he just keeps attacking.

So who is this enemy that keeps blowing up your bridges, chuckles?

And what makes him so scary we have to blow over a trillion a year on him?


 
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From: Dave Head <rally...@att.net>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:07:55 -0400
Local: Sat, Jul 23 2011 1:07 pm
Subject: Re: The Price of War could get you thousands of bridges and more
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 01:37:09 +0000 (UTC), "6139 Dead, 1282 since

1/20/09" <d...@gone.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:36:05 -0400, Dave Head wrote:
>> Yeah, you could save the money of the war and build bridges, but just
>> because you don't go kick  the enemy's ass, doesn't mean he isn't still
>> the enemy, and will travel to your new bridge and blow it up, or knock
>> it down, or whatever else... because he's still your enemy.

>> You have to kick his ass to convince him that attacking the USA is a
>> really bad idea.  If you don't do it, then he just keeps attacking.

>So who is this enemy that keeps blowing up your bridges, chuckles?

AQ.

>And what makes him so scary we have to blow over a trillion a year on him?

'Cuz if he gets hold of the right weapons, or comes up with the right
plan to use "everyday household materials", he could possibly kill
vast numbers of people in a single attack.  Or... damage vital
infrastructure.  How would you like to lose maybe 5 - 10 underwater
tunnels in major cities via a truckload of Ammonium Nitrate and
Fertilzer?  It could happen.  The Brits were the ones that found and
foiled the simultaneous attacks on 10 airliners that were to headed
for the US, which, had the attack succeeded, could have killed 3000
more Americans.

A defensive war is not a war you can win.  You have to go defeat the
enemy, or you will eventually lose.  And you will suffer many dead.


 
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From: "6139 Dead, 1282 since 1/20/09" <d...@gone.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:50:35 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Sat, Jul 23 2011 1:50 pm
Subject: Re: The Price of War could get you thousands of bridges and more

AQ, eh.  So which bridges have they blown up?  Be specific, now.

>>And what makes him so scary we have to blow over a trillion a year on
>>him?

> 'Cuz if he gets hold of the right weapons, or comes up with the right
> plan to use "everyday household materials", he could possibly kill vast
> numbers of people in a single attack.  Or... damage vital
> infrastructure.  How would you like to lose maybe 5 - 10 underwater
> tunnels in major cities via a truckload of Ammonium Nitrate and
> Fertilzer?  It could happen.  The Brits were the ones that found and
> foiled the simultaneous attacks on 10 airliners that were to headed for
> the US, which, had the attack succeeded, could have killed 3000 more
> Americans.

The plans that never amounted to anything more than scribbles on the back
of a napkin?  Those plans?

If you want to worry about terrorists, worry about home-grown nazis with
arsenals.  What happened in Norway yesterday was the same as what
happened in OKC and Columbine here.  America has much more to worry about
from native right wing fruit loops then it does from the thoroughly
defanged al Qaida.

And you know what?  All that money being spent on military shit won't do
a damn bit of good against terrorists, whether they are al Qaida or
local, because the entire PURPOSE of terrorist cabels is to nullify and
even defeat vastly superior military forces.


 
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From: Dave Head <rally...@att.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:52:44 -0400
Local: Sun, Jul 24 2011 12:52 pm
Subject: Re: The Price of War could get you thousands of bridges and more
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:50:35 +0000 (UTC), "6139 Dead, 1282 since

1/20/09" <d...@gone.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:07:55 -0400, Dave Head wrote:
>AQ, eh.  So which bridges have they blown up?  Be specific, now.

They planned to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge, but were foild due to our
depriving them of proper training facilities by going and kicking
their asses in Afganistan, and waterboarding the hell out of KSM until
he gave up the name of the guy that was going to do it.  They
interecepted him in I think it was either Columbus or Cincinnati,
Ohio.

Had we NOT been in Afghanistan and Iraq we might not have gotten KSM
and then we likely would NOT have known of this guy and the Brooklyn
Bridge would likely be at the bottom of the river now.

>The plans that never amounted to anything more than scribbles on the back
>of a napkin?  Those plans?

Exactly.  Those plans were prevented from coming to fruition due to
our armed interference in Afghanistan and Iraq.  If we had never gone
to the middle east, we likely would be witnessing these attacks
succeed, and maybe you would even have to worry about getting blown up
by an IED on your way to work.  

>If you want to worry about terrorists, worry about home-grown nazis with
>arsenals.  What happened in Norway yesterday was the same as what
>happened in OKC and Columbine here.  America has much more to worry about
>from native right wing fruit loops then it does from the thoroughly
>defanged al Qaida.

We've only had one Timothy McVeigh over the years, just 1.  And, if we
don't worry about the foreign terorists, we'll have the domestic
terrorist PLUS the foreign terrorists making this place a scary place
to live.  Wanna allow that to happen?

>And you know what?  All that money being spent on military shit won't do
>a damn bit of good against terrorists, whether they are al Qaida or
>local, because the entire PURPOSE of terrorist cabels is to nullify and
>even defeat vastly superior military forces.

Its not working out very well for them.  They keep losing high-ranking
SOB's one after the other to our troops and to our predator drones.  

A defensive war is not a war you can win.  You have to go defeat the
enemy, or you will eventually lose.  And you will suffer many dead.


 
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From: "6139 Dead, 1282 since 1/20/09" <d...@gone.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:14:50 +0000 (UTC)
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Subject: Re: The Price of War could get you thousands of bridges and more

On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:52:44 -0400, Dave Head wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:50:35 +0000 (UTC), "6139 Dead, 1282 since
> 1/20/09" <d...@gone.com> wrote:

>>On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:07:55 -0400, Dave Head wrote: AQ, eh.  So which
>>bridges have they blown up?  Be specific, now.

> They planned to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge, but were foild due to our
> depriving them of proper training facilities by going and kicking their
> asses in Afganistan, and waterboarding the hell out of KSM until he gave
> up the name of the guy that was going to do it.  They interecepted him
> in I think it was either Columbus or Cincinnati, Ohio.

Somebody in Afghanistan was planning on blowing up the Brooklyn bridge?  
So who was the guy who was going to do it, and what evidence is there
that information extorted under torture was legitimate?

> Had we NOT been in Afghanistan and Iraq we might not have gotten KSM and
> then we likely would NOT have known of this guy and the Brooklyn Bridge
> would likely be at the bottom of the river now.

Um, bubbles?  Khalid was captured in Pakistan.  

Not Iraq.  Not Afghanistan.

I note that he also claimed under torture that if OBL were captured or
killed, a massive nuclear explosion would go off in a major European city.

Care to tell us which city was destroyed?


 
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From: Dave Head <rally...@att.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:31:15 -0400
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Subject: Re: The Price of War could get you thousands of bridges and more
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:14:50 +0000 (UTC), "6139 Dead, 1282 since

Look, bonehead, we're not getting the domestic attacks 'cuz we've
disrupted their ability to do that by killing them a lot, and
depriving them of the training areas they need to train people how to
make bombs go boom.  The NY Times Square bomber's stuff didn't go boom
'cuz his training sucked, and he didn't have a clue why his bomb
didn't explode after it failed to do so.

Get a life.  Your pacifist drivel would just lead to the war being
fought here, every day, and maybe you'd die and may I'd die WITHOUT
going to Afghanistan or Iraq.  I'm 64 years old, I retire in 23 weeks
and 6 days, and if I'm lucky, 12 of the weeks will be spent in Iraq
assisting our troops in testing an anti-IED "device" which is all I'm
going to say about it this publically. If its successful there, we'll
save a lot of Americans.  I imagine that doesn't mean much to you, but
it does to me.  But that's how we advance our abilities to protect
this country, by taking the fight to the enemy.  Why don't you grow a
pair and get on board, and quit whining about the poor, downtrodden
terrorists that we kill.  They deserve it.


 
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From: "6139 Dead, 1282 since 1/20/09" <d...@gone.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:18:27 +0000 (UTC)
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Subject: Re: The Price of War could get you thousands of bridges and more

Actually, the only effective weapon is good intelligence.  As for bombing
the shit out of people in Iraq and Afghanistan, I'll bet that the next
successful attack on America will come from someone whose daughter's
weddig was bombed by Americans, or Pakistani family was wiped out by an
American drone.  

We're creating far more future enemies than we're eliminating.  

> Get a life.  Your pacifist drivel would just lead to the war being
> fought here, every day, and maybe you'd die and may I'd die WITHOUT
> going to Afghanistan or Iraq.  I'm 64 years old, I retire in 23 weeks
> and 6 days, and if I'm lucky, 12 of the weeks will be spent in Iraq
> assisting our troops in testing an anti-IED "device" which is all I'm
> going to say about it this publically. If its successful there, we'll
> save a lot of Americans.  I imagine that doesn't mean much to you, but
> it does to me.  But that's how we advance our abilities to protect this
> country, by taking the fight to the enemy.  Why don't you grow a pair
> and get on board, and quit whining about the poor, downtrodden
> terrorists that we kill.  They deserve it.

64, and you're still a fucking imbecile. I very seriously doubt the
veracity of any of your other claims.

 
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Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:05:53 -0400
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Subject: Re: The Price of War could get you thousands of bridges and more
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:18:27 +0000 (UTC), "6139 Dead, 1282 since

1/20/09" <d...@gone.com> wrote:
>Actually, the only effective weapon is good intelligence.

Good grief, here's a obese, epileptic, diabetic adult diaper wearing
alcoholic pretending he knows something about fighting terrorism...

 It's clear that finance and economics will never be the
strong suits of Jamieson or Shook.  See below:

"companies are literally hoarding "cash." And by
definition, if they have the cash, it's not in
circulation. Money is zero-sum, which means, every
dollar a company holds onto is a dollar that isn't
in circulation. "
--Milt Shook
.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.society.liberalism/msg/a3be1dd3b08...

"Bubbles, YOU'RE the one saying if we take money out of
general circulation, the economy will improve."
--David (Zepp) Jamieson stupidly claiming that corporate
cash reserves "take money out of circulation"
.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.rush-limbaugh/msg/9d77036a53c7...

Canyon Note:  

There's two kinds of cash...  there's currency and then there's
non-currency cash like your checking and saving's account,
and the cash equivalents...  only currency is what can be taken
out of circulation, whle the noncurrency cash is only a
reference to some unspecified currency, which, of course,
is in circulation.


 
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From: Dave Head <rally...@att.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:05:57 -0400
Local: Sun, Jul 24 2011 8:05 pm
Subject: Re: The Price of War could get you thousands of bridges and more
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:18:27 +0000 (UTC), "6139 Dead, 1282 since

1/20/09" <d...@gone.com> wrote:

>> Look, bonehead, we're not getting the domestic attacks 'cuz we've
>> disrupted their ability to do that by killing them a lot, and depriving
>> them of the training areas they need to train people how to make bombs
>> go boom.  The NY Times Square bomber's stuff didn't go boom 'cuz his
>> training sucked, and he didn't have a clue why his bomb didn't explode
>> after it failed to do so.

>Actually, the only effective weapon is good intelligence.  As for bombing
>the shit out of people in Iraq and Afghanistan, I'll bet that the next
>successful attack on America will come from someone whose daughter's
>weddig was bombed by Americans, or Pakistani family was wiped out by an
>American drone.  

We don't  bomb weddings.  We have software to be able to bomb targets
and NOT damage nearby objects.  You'd be amazed at what can be done,
but its all classified, so I can't go into it.

>We're creating far more future enemies than we're eliminating.  

You know nothing.

You should see the FRIENDS we created in Kuwait when we kicked the
Iraqi's out.

>> Get a life.  Your pacifist drivel would just lead to the war being
>> fought here, every day, and maybe you'd die and may I'd die WITHOUT
>> going to Afghanistan or Iraq.  I'm 64 years old, I retire in 23 weeks
>> and 6 days, and if I'm lucky, 12 of the weeks will be spent in Iraq
>> assisting our troops in testing an anti-IED "device" which is all I'm
>> going to say about it this publically. If its successful there, we'll
>> save a lot of Americans.  I imagine that doesn't mean much to you, but
>> it does to me.  But that's how we advance our abilities to protect this
>> country, by taking the fight to the enemy.  Why don't you grow a pair
>> and get on board, and quit whining about the poor, downtrodden
>> terrorists that we kill.  They deserve it.

>64, and you're still a fucking imbecile. I very seriously doubt the
>veracity of any of your other claims.

You can always rely on usenet for a personal insult, anytime,
anywhere.  As for the other, I'm a DoD civilian engineer, and yeah, we
get opportunities to volunter to do such things in the war zones.  Did
so from 2007 - 2008, for 3 months, in Baghdad.  This next duty, if I
get it, will be all over Iraq.  With any luck, I'll have a hand in
saving some soldiers, always my main reason for doing it.  There's
lotsa reasons to do it, but that's the main one.  Yeah, the money's
good, which feels alright until you get hit by a sniper with a .50, so
its a gamble to do it at all.  But I read recently that they surveyed
a bunch of really old people, 90+ years old and nearing the end of
their lives, what their biggest regrets were.  The most popular answer
was, "The risks I didn't take."  That's good enough for me.

 
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:38:57 +0000 (UTC)
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Subject: Re: The Price of War could get you thousands of bridges and more

...ok, you're just a fucking joke.

Run along, little troll.

Pester some of your fellow children.


 
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From: "His Highness the TibetanMonkey, the Beach Cruiser Philosopher" <comandante.ban...@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:36:32 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: The Price of War could get you thousands of bridges and more
On Jul 23, 1:07 pm, Dave Head <rally...@att.net> wrote:

Yeah, abandon the country and our own population will be crying for
change, as when Rome fell in 410AD. It's not even that they don't
spend the money, but they dump it down the drain such as around
here... A million buck beach promenade. That's a conservative amount
for a mile of asphalt.

Same in Afghanistan. CORRUPTION IS OUR MAIN ENEMY.


 
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From: "His Highness the TibetanMonkey, the Beach Cruiser Philosopher" <comandante.ban...@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:41:15 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: The Price of War could get you thousands of bridges and more
On Jul 24, 8:05 pm, Dave Head <rally...@att.net> wrote:

Didn't we agree before that that meant "RIDING A BICYCLE"?

I'm getting more and more aggressive at it. I just cut off a car
turning with the green arrow. How much more suicidal you want me to
get?

The police even followed and told me if I was rode as an idiot. But,
under the law of the jungle you must make the first move.


 
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