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   "ljd"  wrote in message   
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   > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:27:10 -0400, Mike Smith    
   > wrote:   
   >>   
   >> The war on terror is hardly a "financial quagmire" with our   
   >> government   
   >> spending a billion dollars every 8 minutes to run all of it's   
   >> social   
   >> programs.   
   >   
   > Oh really now.  Let's see... 365 x 24 x 60 is 525,600 minutes   
   > in a year, so there are 525,600 / 8 eight-minute periods per   
   > year, or 65,700.   
   >   
   > Damn, man.  I had *no idea* the Federal budget for entitlements   
   > was 65.7 trillion dollars per year.   
   >   
      
   Haven't you heard? Iraq and Afghanistan are "social programs"   
   according to George "Orwell" Bush. Part of the new world order.   
      
   > Here I was thinking the entire Federal budget for 2006 (not   
   > counting off-budget "emergency" supplemental appropriations   
   > for the War on Terror) was a mere 2.8 trillion.  More liberal   
   > lies from the MSM, I guess.   
   >   
   >> Without defense from enemies, the various safety hammocks are   
   >> irrelevant.  Think of the war on terror the ultimate safety net   
   >> which   
   >> allows all the others to continue to survive.   
      
   Right. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Why? Because we say so.   
      
   Nevermind these are neadrathals mostly incapable of strategy and the   
   only reason they were tactically sucessful on 911 was the exploitation   
   of our relaxed open society. No, they did not invent IEDs, this   
   tecnology, including shaped charges is coming from Iran. IEDs are used   
   mostly by the insurgent Sunni and Shiite.   
      
   Most of the violence is sectarian there are very little Al-Qaeda   
   influence in Iraq. Both U.S. military intelligence and the Iraq Study   
   Group and intelligence estimates placed the number of Iraqi insurgent   
   forces at approximately 20,000 combatants. At most, 5 percent of that   
   number are foreigners fighting in Iraq, so a whole 1000 foreign   
   fighters with the majority of those being Iranians supporting Shiites;   
   others Sunnis from Syria and Saudi Arabia supporting Iraqi Sunnis.   
      
   But it is in the best interests of the bush administration that you be   
   afraid, so they manufacture information and mislead as much as   
   possible. We are therfore fighting terroists not occupying a country   
   where people are trying to eject our forces.   
      
   >   
   > If I did math the way you did, I could say the War on Terror   
   > is costing us umptyteen kajillion skadillion dollars a year.   
   >   
      
   Just Goggle it.   
      
   > Can we really afford to keep paying hoobadooba million billion   
   > squintillion dollars a year forever to keep a few towelheads   
   > from coming here so we don't have to fight them there, or   
   > whatever?  Maybe we should just say "fuck it" at some point   
   > and convert to Islam.   
      
   Too expensive.   
      
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