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We need to change our philosophy.

If we decide to sacrifice American lives in another war, then we keep a piece of the land we shed blood for. In this case, we should have secured a portion of their oil resources permanently. Screw this nation building crap. We should have permanent bases with a lot of land and natural resources now in Iraq... forever.


6 posted on 11/16/2012 12:10:19 PM PST by PsyOps
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we should have secured a portion of their oil resources permanently

Then the libs will scream it is a war for oil...oh...ah...they did, except we did not get the oil.

100 posted on 11/17/2012 4:37:52 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (We were the tea party before there was a tea party. - Jim Robinson)
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"...Screw this nation building crap. We should have permanent bases with a lot of land and natural resources now in Iraq... forever......."

The Roman knew how to take care of business, didn't they.....

103 posted on 11/17/2012 5:25:18 AM PST by Victor (If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
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"...Screw this nation building crap. We should have permanent bases with a lot of land and natural resources now in Iraq... forever......."

The Romans knew how to take care of business, didn't they.....

104 posted on 11/17/2012 5:25:51 AM PST by Victor (If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
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“If we decide to sacrifice American lives in another war, then we keep a piece of the land we shed blood for.”

Big Media will never put up with that, so neither will the DWTS generation.

FU BO, and your mindless worshippers, too — FU FU!


108 posted on 11/17/2012 5:57:24 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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PsyOPs you nailed it. America has forgotten “To the Victor go the spoils”, as an important principle of warfare. You have to send a message both to the nation you have defeated and other nations who have any thoughts about taking you on down the road.


113 posted on 11/17/2012 7:02:19 AM PST by littleharbour
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If we decide to sacrifice American lives in another war, then we keep a piece of the land we shed blood for. In this case, we should have secured a portion of their oil resources permanently. Screw this nation building crap. We should have permanent bases with a lot of land and natural resources now in Iraq... forever.


We needed to separate the Kurdish area from the rest of it and stayed in there with a large permanent base. The Kurds were the only semblance of friends we had there in any case—even though Kissinger had sold them out decades ago. We could have helped turn Kurdistan into Israel East. And when we were still in there a few years back, gas was trending to a dime a gallon.

I hate saying this because I get pounded but the Bush Family was clueless about Iraq.


121 posted on 11/17/2012 9:09:57 AM PST by PaleoBob
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Not worth the price of holding onto it, much less the moral and practical abandon that would be required to attempt to rule a people without their consent.

To adopt such a philosophy of ruling others without their consent would most assuredly doom us to be forever ruled without our consent as well. After all what fitting slaves to be used to enslave us as well to our own political leaders.


159 posted on 11/18/2012 8:12:16 PM PST by Monorprise
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