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US should be out of Iraq and Afganistan
by Baiano
I thought that by now after the Bush Crime Family has left office, and with this non-republican new administration the United States would be out of Iraq and Afganistan.
Everybody knows that the US invasion in both countries were illegal (invaded a country which had not attacked the US) and was oil motivated. As everybody knows the Bush Crime Family screwed up the occupation with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld in command, which literally has destroyed Iraq. US destroyed a lot of history of Bagdad with museums being looted without any US protection. The US completely screwed up by using torture all over. US also in the process wasted a lot of money (about 12 $Billion in cash) without any accounting giving it away to american contractors (thieves) that were in Iraq to make a buck. The american contractors worked in a no-bid scheme that favoured Dick Cheney's Halliburton as one of the top contractors out there and it has made a killing. So US spends in Iraq about $12 Billion dollars a month.
So with all this war/military spending in the past 8 years plus trade unbalance has caused the US deficit to climb to about 10 $Trillion dollars. All this money has been borrowed from China, Japan and the Saudis.
In addition to the war/military spending, trade unbalance, the US has moved all manufacturing overseas, has also moved or eliminated a lot of jobs in the US.
So with a lot of spending Bush who did not know addition and subtraction also cut US revenues by cuting taxes from the top 2 % of Americans. Then the US deficit skyrockted. A side from this also Bush had to pay off his Wall Street buddies by having no regulation on banking, hedge funds, etc.
Pres Obama came in with a bankrupt country, in a deep recession caused by Bush. So Obama is trying to fix the economy.
Now Pres. Obama wants to increase the number of troops in Afganistan so maybe another $12 Billion or more/month are being spent.
My point is why are we still in Iraq in Afganistan? And by the way the US military have bases in about 150 countries. Why? Why not use this military money for peaceful purposes like education, health care, job creation, etc.
The US needs some change in the capitalism regime that somehow is not working and also cut down on the imperialism that is going to destroy the US if not stopped.
My advice is to get out of Iraq and Afganistan right now!!!!
by Baiano
I thought that by now after the Bush Crime Family has left office, and with this non-republican new administration the United States would be out of Iraq and Afganistan.
Everybody knows that the US invasion in both countries were illegal (invaded a country which had not attacked the US) and was oil motivated. As everybody knows the Bush Crime Family screwed up the occupation with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld in command, which literally has destroyed Iraq. US destroyed a lot of history of Bagdad with museums being looted without any US protection. The US completely screwed up by using torture all over. US also in the process wasted a lot of money (about 12 $Billion in cash) without any accounting giving it away to american contractors (thieves) that were in Iraq to make a buck. The american contractors worked in a no-bid scheme that favoured Dick Cheney's Halliburton as one of the top contractors out there and it has made a killing. So US spends in Iraq about $12 Billion dollars a month.
So with all this war/military spending in the past 8 years plus trade unbalance has caused the US deficit to climb to about 10 $Trillion dollars. All this money has been borrowed from China, Japan and the Saudis.
In addition to the war/military spending, trade unbalance, the US has moved all manufacturing overseas, has also moved or eliminated a lot of jobs in the US.
So with a lot of spending Bush who did not know addition and subtraction also cut US revenues by cuting taxes from the top 2 % of Americans. Then the US deficit skyrockted. A side from this also Bush had to pay off his Wall Street buddies by having no regulation on banking, hedge funds, etc.
Pres Obama came in with a bankrupt country, in a deep recession caused by Bush. So Obama is trying to fix the economy.
Now Pres. Obama wants to increase the number of troops in Afganistan so maybe another $12 Billion or more/month are being spent.
My point is why are we still in Iraq in Afganistan? And by the way the US military have bases in about 150 countries. Why? Why not use this military money for peaceful purposes like education, health care, job creation, etc.
The US needs some change in the capitalism regime that somehow is not working and also cut down on the imperialism that is going to destroy the US if not stopped.
My advice is to get out of Iraq and Afganistan right now!!!!
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