[CLUE-Talk] The military takes a cue from Microsoft

[Dennis J Perkins]

Jeff Cann wrote:

>On Sunday 12 October 2003 10:11 am, Jed S. Baer wrote:
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>>I'm actually getting tired of hearing all the Bush-Bashing over Iraq. 
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>I'm getting tired of an administration that continues to lie to me, and then 
>has the gall to ask you and I to put up $87 billion for next year's Iraq 
>budget.
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>>When you can explain why it's OK to sit back while dissidents (and in Iraq,
>>that was a pretty easy label to come by) are routinely tortured, let me
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>I don't think that it's OK that Iraq's preservation is more important than 
>helping those who are jobless and / or homeless and / or without health care 
>in our country.  IMHO, it's a crime that we have any homeless or unisured or 
>hungry people in this (the wealthiest) country in the world.  Where's the 
>logic in this policy?
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>Also, with regard to torture - you've given a straw man for your argument - I 
>can give you a bunch of other ones (China, Pakistan, Iran, N. Korea) - none 
>are democratic and all have documented human rights abuses of their citizens.  
>So, by your argument, we should be liberating these folks as well.  Is this 
>what you really believe?  How much money are you willing to pay for America 
>to be the global policeman?
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>Consider:  $87 billion / 280 million people in the US = $378,000 per American. 
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>What would happen to our homeless, hunger, jobless, health care situations if 
>we used the $87 billion on our own citizens?  $378K sounds like a lot of 
>money to me.
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>Later,
>Jeff
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$387,000?  Where can I sign up?

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