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May 23rd, 2016 at 3:38:44 AM permalink
odiousgambit
Member since: Oct 28, 2012
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Anybody else following the complete collapse
of Venezuela?


Some liberals still can't acknowledge it. I was listening to some dumbass [I forget who] just recently that was still waxing wonderful on how the poor are being helped so much he could have swooned when he visited there

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I know a guy on a gambling forum .... he hates the US even
more.


Guys like Chavez and his successor are stupid about a lot of things, but they have the part down cold where you blame the US for everything. Amazing how well it works.
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May 23rd, 2016 at 9:13:43 AM permalink
petroglyph
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Who would have thunk? http://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-obama-idUSKCN0YD050 We gave more than 52 thousand lives to stop the spread of communism. They are still communists, and we are arming them.

Is this bizzaro world run amok?
The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW
May 23rd, 2016 at 10:05:04 AM permalink
DRich
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Quote: petroglyph
Who would have thunk? http://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-obama-idUSKCN0YD050 We gave more than 52 thousand lives to stop the spread of communism. They are still communists, and we are arming them.

Is this bizzaro world run amok?


"Was it over when the German's bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell No!"
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May 23rd, 2016 at 10:16:42 AM permalink
petroglyph
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Quote: DRich
"Was it over when the German's bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell No!"
Doesn't it also seem a bit ironic that Obama received a Nobel Peace prize?

Watch what they do, not what they say.
The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW
May 23rd, 2016 at 10:16:45 AM permalink
terapined
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Quote: petroglyph
Who would have thunk? http://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-obama-idUSKCN0YD050 We gave more than 52 thousand lives to stop the spread of communism. They are still communists, and we are arming them.

Is this bizzaro world run amok?

We should have never attacked Viet Nam and committed war crimes
52K killed, blame that on Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon.
We committed war crimes and now arming them
Sounds like a good deal since we never really paid for the USA's war crimes against Viet Nam
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May 23rd, 2016 at 10:38:31 AM permalink
petroglyph
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Quote: terapined
We should have never attacked Viet Nam and committed war crimes
52K killed, blame that on Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon.
We committed war crimes and now arming them
Sounds like a good deal since we never really paid for the USA's war crimes against Viet Nam
Who are we supposed to be arming them against?
The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW
May 23rd, 2016 at 10:50:33 AM permalink
terapined
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Quote: petroglyph
Who are we supposed to be arming them against?


China
Things are very tense between these 2 countries
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World"
May 23rd, 2016 at 11:05:26 AM permalink
petroglyph
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Quote: terapined
China
Things are very tense between these 2 countries
What about? South China sea?

Stark raving crazy, to build up arms in defense from China. Mad.

Laying around Viet Nam, in unknown locations are estimated to be still, one million land mines from the last sinister mass annihilation . Viet Nam doesn't have the capitol to do this, it's nuts nuts nuts, and stupid.

The conspiracy side of my brain says the cia has something to do with it. Starting to ring fence around not only Russia, but China as well. The northwest of China is going to see insurgency's from the Uighurs, who also joined up with AQ, in Syria.

Grand chessboard, ala Brezinski and Kissinger.
The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW
May 23rd, 2016 at 11:29:25 AM permalink
rxwine
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Brazilian experts have been pointing out that the country once successfully eliminated the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that carry the Zika, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever viruses. Then the government simply stopped paying for eradication and prevention, and the mosquitoes came back.


Public memory is short. Out of sight, out of mind. Thus that's where the funding cuts start.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/zika-virus-basically-our-fault-who-chief-says-n578796
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May 23rd, 2016 at 1:36:56 PM permalink
Nareed
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Quote: terapined
We should have never attacked Viet Nam and committed war crimes


Agreed.

In the book "The March of Folly," the author titles the chapter on Vietnam as "America Betrays Herself in Vietnam."

To begin with, America should have never lifted a finger in response to French requests for assistance in reconquering Indochina. Or rather, just the middle finger.
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