Securing our borders - Page 6

gldstwmn · #76 04-26-2005, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

[I don't subscribe to love it or leave it...I am saying that if you don't think America has great freedoms, then go live somewhere where you think does. Come back when Bush is gone if you think that's our problem.

I don't think anyone asked for that advice.
I have a right to execise my free speech, which includes being critical of my government. Since I have a child, who will someday probably have children herself, I would like to stay and see what I could do to make it better for those who come after me.
What makes you think that the problem will go away once Bush is gone? His legacy is going to be around for a long, long time.

dissention · #77 04-26-2005, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

But, hey, haven't we all misplaces 3.7bn. dollars at some point?

Let me check between the cushions of my couch.

strandinthewind · #78 04-26-2005, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

But, hey, haven't we all misplaces 3.7bn. dollars at some point?

So, we spent how many more billions to get this comparably insignficant amount?

strandinthewind · #79 04-26-2005, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by bretonbanquet

We don't even know what happened to the money from our own oil in the UK, let alone the oil we're busy appropriating from elsewhere

Yep - and do not get me started on the UN's corruption, which probably is well over that amount.

wondergirl9847 · #80 04-26-2005, 03:16 PM

I think I worded my post wrong. LOL I am not saying you have to agree with the president/government/laws/whatever here...but do realize that you live in a great country. There are lots of crap I don't agree with and pray to be changed, but I realize I'm blessed. I don't take it for granted.

That's all.

dissention · #81 04-26-2005, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

So, we spent how many more billions to get this comparably insignficant amount?

If you had read the article, you would have noticed that it's $20 billion that's unaccounted for. And that's just what we know about.

strandinthewind · #82 04-26-2005, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

No one ever said that this country didn't have great freedoms in this thread.

Again, why should people move because they don't like the president? Isn't this country all about participation from the people and you have the luxury of trying to change things? Saying people should leave just doesn't make any sense to me.

Me either. My word - we agree

- come over here and naked immdiately - the moon and stars have aligned - it is time to make the anti - christ

gldstwmn · #83 04-26-2005, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Again, if the US had wanted to give them money, clearly there was an easier way to do that.

You mean easier than no bid contracts?

gldstwmn · #84 04-26-2005, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

Let me check between the cushions of my couch.

Just look in Dick Cheney's pockets. While you're at it, you might as well give DeLay the once over.

strandinthewind · #85 04-26-2005, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

If you had read the article, you would have noticed that it's $20 billion that's unaccounted for. And that's just what we know about.

If you had read the article you would also know it was an accusation not a fact

Even so, $20 billion is less than we have spent

gldstwmn · #86 04-26-2005, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

So, we spent how many more billions to get this comparably insignficant amount?

I don't know. How much is it? Break it down for me.

gldstwmn · #87 04-26-2005, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Yep - and do not get me started on the UN's corruption, which probably is well over that amount.

Awww, so it's all the UN's fault. We should nominate that nice John Bolton after all. He'll take care of everything.
LMFAO.

gldstwmn · #88 04-26-2005, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

I think I worded my post wrong. LOL I am not saying you have to agree with the president/government/laws/whatever here...but do realize that you live in a great country. There are lots of crap I don't agree with and pray to be changed, but I realize I'm blessed. I don't take it for granted.

That's all.

And I do?

strandinthewind · #89 04-26-2005, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by gldstwmn

You mean easier than no bid contracts?

Interetingly, not all of that money went to Halliburton, who I think has a long history of no bid contracts with the US and not just with W.

But, clearly there were easier ways to give money to Halliburton than to risk a world war? That is why though I think Halliburton profited, as it has in the last two decades, off of the US' actions, that was not the main intent.

strandinthewind · #90 04-26-2005, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by gldstwmn

Awww.so it's all the UN's fault. We should nominate that nice John Bolton after all. He'll take care of everything.
LMFAO.

Well, the UN clearly does not have clean hands

I mean the head of its son made money off of oil for food, which the head of the UN promoted though it killed probably in the millions and the vast majority of those women and children. Thus, the UN is by no means an innocent in all of this.