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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (119835)4/3/2008 4:50:41 PM
From: puborectalis  Respond to of 173976
 
"Right now, the U.S. is spending $500 billion a year on the military, which is more than all 190 countries in the world put together," .........
"The two countries that the military industrial complex and some of our politicians would like to demonize and make enemies are Russia and China," ......... "China just wants to sell us shoes. They're not building landing craft to attack the United States, and Russia wants to be our friends, too."

......" despite the United States' huge military budget, "we can't win in Iraq."

"We're being beaten by insurgents who don't even have any tanks, they don't have a headquarters, they don't have a Pentagon, we don't even know if they have any generals," .

........" the Iraqi insurgents don't like us because we invaded their country and occupied it. Nobody likes to be invaded."