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Old 03-08-2012, 06:50 PM
 
Location: Old Town Alexandria
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People who can't afford to live in the USA won't fare well abroad. Too many challenges. Too few resources. The people for whom a move might make sense are the middle-class who are under insured, the adventurers, loners. There's a current discussion of this over on the Retirement forum here at C-D.
How many countries have you traveled to and observed? Any Links or stats? {facts}
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Old 03-08-2012, 06:53 PM
 
Location: Old Town Alexandria
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"I'm extremely dissapointed in Fox News and CNN. After we witnessed police brutality we kept calling them constantly and then they shut down their headquarters. Anytime we mentioned Occupy Wall Street, they'd hang up on us."

1:45-1:55

Was this person working on the behalf of RT? Does that sound like, "Fair and Balanced News" to you?
CNN and Fox are both owned by corporate interests. I detest all of them

real news on linktv or free speech tv.com. The rest of you can just remain myopic and listen to pablum from Ali Velshi, or whoevers on Fox. I do not trust any of them for real news on the actual economy.
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Old 03-08-2012, 06:56 PM
 
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CNN and Fox are both owned by corporate interests. I detest all of them

real news on linktv or free speech tv.com. The rest of you can just remain myopic and listen to pablum from Ali Velshi, or whoevers on Fox. I do not trust any of them for real news on the actual economy.
These are much better sources than RT or PressTV.
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Old 03-08-2012, 07:31 PM
 
Location: Northridge/Porter Ranch, Calif.
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Let's recap the past few years:
We had a war criminal as vice president (Dick Cheney) who owned the company rebuilding Iraq after we decimated it. And, he shot his friend while hunting, LOL.
How was Cheney a "war criminal?"

Iraq would not have been "decimated" had Saddam cooperated with the U.N. and U.S. Haliburton was also signing no-bid contracts during the Clinton administration.

You've not heard of a hunting accident? Like the saying goes, I would rather have gone hunting with Cheney than go for a drive with Ted Kennedy.
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Old 03-08-2012, 07:45 PM
 
Location: Old Town Alexandria
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Cheney cannot go to certain countries...ever hear of The Nuremberg Trials, or geneva Convention...
Waterboarding is a torturetechnique that consists of immobilizing the victim on his or her back with the head inclined downwards; water is then poured over the face into breathing passages, causing the captive to believe he or she is dying.[1][2] In contrast to submerging the head face-forward in water, waterboarding precipitates an almost immediate gag reflex.[3] It can cause extreme pain, dry drowning, damage to lungs, brain damage from oxygen deprivation, other physical injuries including broken bones due to struggling against restraints, lasting psychological damage or, if uninterrupted, death.[4] Adverse physical consequences can manifest themselves months after the event, while psychological effects can last for years.[5]
So the former vice-president has just confessed to a war crime. I repeat: the former vice-president has just confessed to a war crime.
There is no statute of limitations for such a crime; and the penalty under law is either the death penalty or a prison sentence for life:

Cheney: "I Was A Big Supporter Of Waterboarding" - The Daily Dish - The Atlantic

There is a reason he couldnt fly to Switzerland last year.
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Old 03-08-2012, 07:56 PM
 
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Cheney cannot go to certain countries...ever hear of The Nuremberg Trials, or geneva Convention...
Waterboarding is a torturetechnique that consists of immobilizing the victim on his or her back with the head inclined downwards; water is then poured over the face into breathing passages, causing the captive to believe he or she is dying.[1][2] In contrast to submerging the head face-forward in water, waterboarding precipitates an almost immediate gag reflex.[3] It can cause extreme pain, dry drowning, damage to lungs, brain damage from oxygen deprivation, other physical injuries including broken bones due to struggling against restraints, lasting psychological damage or, if uninterrupted, death.[4] Adverse physical consequences can manifest themselves months after the event, while psychological effects can last for years.[5]
So the former vice-president has just confessed to a war crime. I repeat: the former vice-president has just confessed to a war crime.
There is no statute of limitations for such a crime; and the penalty under law is either the death penalty or a prison sentence for life:

Cheney: "I Was A Big Supporter Of Waterboarding" - The Daily Dish - The Atlantic

There is a reason he couldnt fly to Switzerland last year.

Waterboarding isn't torture.
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Old 03-08-2012, 07:58 PM
 
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Halliburton was the only company allowed to bid on a $7 billion contract during the Iraq war.

And what do you call waterboarding?

Has Cheney ever been waterboarded?

He dodged the draft 5 times, he's a chickenhawk, nothing more.
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Old 03-08-2012, 08:14 PM
 
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Halliburton was the only company allowed to bid on a $7 billion contract during the Iraq war.

And what do you call waterboarding?

Has Cheney ever been waterboarded?

He dodged the draft 5 times, he's a chickenhawk, nothing more.

Bill Clinton and Joe Biden were also draft dodgers.

What's your point?
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Old 03-08-2012, 08:17 PM
 
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The number of suicides of our troops is proof that some are indeed giving up on America. They return from war and see we elected subversives that are destroying our nation, and they are being demoralized, spread too thin and those that are getting out of the military have problems finding honorable employment, often.
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Old 03-08-2012, 08:20 PM
 
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The number of suicides of our troops is proof that some are indeed giving up on America. They return from war and see we elected subversives that are destroying our nation, and they are being demoralized, spread too thin and those that are getting out of the military have problems finding honorable employment, often.
Sunny, I'm going to assume you "mean well" with this statement, but please don't politicize this issue. Our troops are not committing suicide because Obama or any other Democrat has been elected into office.
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