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Those wacky senators from Oklahoma are at it again.
Coburn declines to elaborate on Iraq War statement
U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn's comment that going to war in Iraq was "probably a mistake" represents a significant departure from where the Oklahoma Republican started out on the 5-year-old conflict.This is very surprising. We don't expect the hardcore element of the Conservative party to make statements that they support Al Qaeda, want to hand Osama bin Laden a victory along with the keys to the White House and your 401 K, and are surrender monkeys. Even I can see that.
Coburn...ran for the Senate in 2004.
During both the primary and the general election campaigns that year, he repeatedly expressed support for President Bush's decision to take the country to war in Iraq.
Coburn's Oklahoma Republican Senator twin is none other than Jim Inhofe. Inhofe is famous for saying Al Gore is 'full of crap' and that people who believe that there is global warming are similar to the Third Reich.
$1.2 Billion Crash
Breitbart: US military investigates stealth bomber crash
The US military was investigating on Saturday after a B-2 stealth bomber crashed on take-off from the Pacific island of Guam, the first such incident involving the futuristic craft.The pilots are safe, that's good. This has got to be the most expensive vehicle crash in the history of humanity. This is the monetary equivalent to 50,000 cars crashing in a pile-up.
Both pilots on board ejected safely as the 1.2-billion-dollar radar-evading plane, with its distinctive triangular shape, went down at Andersen airbase...
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NO big deal they'll just build 5 more at twice that rate to replace it. This was a weapon designed during the Cold War to evade Russian air defense systems. Now its used to bomb goat herders.
A 1.2 billion dollar crash, it blows my mind.
The problem with military weapons has been the same one for years. Once you build a bomb, it has no further economic repercussion. If you take the same money and build a hospital or a school, it continues to generate economic value - jobs get created etc etc.
Its like an addiction, except everybody calls it a good thing.
The way this country's policies have evolved into an unquestioned agreement that we keep feeding the whole war complex is the green elephant in the room. You can't even question it without being called whatever the most recent enemy thing is.
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