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To: onlygold1 who wrote (257064)6/27/2010 9:22:37 PM
From: Smiling BobRead Replies (2) | Respond to of 306849
 
100 max
said it could be less than 50.
If that's the case, we can send a dozen special ops and be done with it. But 1064 US soldier's lives lost so far with no end in sight

O doing his best to keep the dollar and the Spoos up.

---Leaders of 20 major industrial and developing countries generally sided with cutting spending and raising taxes, despite warnings from President Barack Obama that too much austerity too quickly could choke off the global recovery.-----

This should be on O's political tombstone.

"We can't all rush to the exits at the same time," Obama said after three days of economic summitry.



To: onlygold1 who wrote (257064)6/28/2010 7:01:14 AM
From: Dan3Respond to of 306849
 
Re: 100 operatives holding US back

15 Saudi Arabians (plus a handful of others) took down the trade towers and killed a couple thousand people.

Timothy McVeigh working with 2 others killed 168 people.

It doesn't take many sociopaths to cause a lot of damage.

I tend to agree that putting locking doors on cockpits in airplanes seems to have greatly reduced the need to go to, and stay in Afghanistan.

I'm not sure what the financial costs were to install sturdy locking doors, but no one was killed doing it, so the human cost was certainly far lower.