How about a post that isn't useless drivel?

[ZahZoo]

Could you tell me why we are there?

See Lounge's firestarter analogy... we're putting that one out with napalm...

[ELVIS]

This is as good a place as any, I guess...

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[ELVIS]

I'm gonna get slammed for this one...

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[ELVIS]

Somebody put some work into this useless drivel...

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[letsrock]

What's wrong with that?

Everything.
Nothing is being accomplished.
How is it we outed Nazi Germany and Japan at the same time in less than 4 years, who had all sorts of technology and equipment. But we cant get some sand ******s out of the caves in over 8 years.
Something is terribly wrong here.

It doesnt take a genius to figure this out.
Letsrock just did for you.

[letsrock]

Could you tell me why we are there?

He'll do anything to support Chimpy, careful now.

[Seshmeister]

The objectives were as I remember

a) To catch/kill Osama Bin Laden - but if he's not dead he's not in Afghanistan.

b) To destroy Al-Queda because of 9-11 but they aren't in Afghanistan either

So now it's supposedly to get Afghanistan back to the time when women had freedom of expression and so on. Why the fuck would we sacrifice a single life of one of our countrymen to give freedoms to Afghani women even if it was possible? What has that to do with us?

The final irony of course was that there was only ever one regime that ever delivered any freedom of expression in Afghanistan, voting, educated women. The time constantly referred to by the US and UK governments when they wheel out the 1st ladies to speak in defence of the war.

That regime of course was the Najibullah Republic of the 80s and 90s. Unfortunately it was destroyed by the mujihadeen we had armed and trained and who then became the Taliban.

D'oh!

[ELVIS]

a) To catch/kill Osama Bin Laden Afghanistan.

D'oh!

No no no no...David Bowie!

[Nickdfresh]

$1 trillion defecit... who spent the last $727 billion of that?

Bush started the mess, but there's somebody making it worse.

Face reality, pussy.

What is your basis for this statistic?

[Blackflag]

What's wrong with that?

It doesn't matter if it's good or bad - there's just no money for this shit.

[Blackflag]

What is your basis for this statistic?

Well, that's an easy question, because every measure says the economy is headed downward...unemployment up, inflation up, interest rates low, money supply up, tax revenues down, deficit up...and statements from China saying they"re tired of loaning the U.S. money.

So is there really a debate about what increased government spending is going to do to the economy? Especially when it's being spent on things that aren't helping - like I listed above?

Shit.

[hideyoursheep]

The objectives were as I remember

a) To catch/kill Osama Bin Laden - but if he's not dead he's not in Afghanistan.

To catch/ kill Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, or anyone who supports or defends them.

b) To destroy Al-Queda because of 9-11 but they aren't in Afghanistan either

That's why I wholeheartedly agree with pushing into whatever corner of Pakistan they are hiding in. Fuck the Paki's- if they don't want to help, we'll help ourselves. As far as I'm concerned that type of apathy towards helping eliminate Al Qaeda inside it's own sovereign border is NO DIFFERENT than the Taliban protecting or refusing to allow the capture of AQ. They don't deserve any sovereignty recognition as long as AQ is there and they do nothing.

Everyone knows (at least I hope so) what the mujahideen mutated into and why. Although I'm not sure you do, as you conveniently left that out.

And why in the fuck would some UK judge have a problem with unmanned drones carring bombs? As if a manned F-16 would be any different..

Other than of course, not risking the life of a pilot.

[hideyoursheep]

Everything.
Nothing is being accomplished.
How is it we outed Nazi Germany and Japan....

You're already an idiot...less than 2 sentences in.

[hideyoursheep]

It doesn't matter if it's good or bad - there's just no money for this shit.

And at what point did we run out of money, shit-for-brains?

NOW the US shouldn't have the WILL to serve justice for 9-11 because some other shit-for-brains wasted money looking for WMD's somewhere else?

You're an idiot. Sit next to Lickscock and STFU.

[Blackflag]

And at what point did we run out of money, shit-for-brains?

Look at the graph above, dickhead. It was right around 2002.

NOW the US shouldn't have the WILL to serve justice for 9-11 because some other shit-for-brains wasted money looking for WMD's somewhere else?

Isn't this what Bin Laden rambled on about in his shitty fucking videos a few years ago? His end game was to tear down the U.S. economy and bankrupt itself.

You're an idiot. Sit next to Lickscock and STFU.

You're one of those gung-ho douchebags who thinks there's always enough money sitting around to blow up the "bad guys" and play world police. Grow up, chicken hawk.