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To: Alas Babylon!

Anyway, then Saddam invaded Kuwait on August 2nd.


I happened to be at Wright-Pat AFB in Ohio that day and I can confirm what you say. The Big Siren went off and the defense budget has been in reliable ascent ever since.


152 posted on 01/01/2017 5:45:54 PM PST by PaleoBob
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To: PaleoBob

To a certain extent, we witnessed history. Thus began the active combat role in the Middle East for the USA. Here’s what that day brought. Think about the failures we made as well as the triumphs:

—Because we didn’t finish off Saddam, we had to station our Air Force in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

—The Mujahadeen we supported in Afghanistan against the Soviets transformed into the Taliban.

—The Mujahadeeni Bin Laden started railing against the USA for having troops in the Muslim “Holy Land”.

—Bin Laden started “The Base”, or Al Qaeda, to attack us via terrorism and small attacks as he had learned in Afghanistan.

—Al Qaeda attacked innocent New York and Washington on a beautiful day in September 2001.

—We invade first Afghanistan and then Iraq to stop Muslim and Iraqi terrorism.

—We Abandoned Iraq under Obama which led directly to ISIS.

—At the same time, we tried to help terrorists take control of Egypt, Libya, and Syria. Egypt righted itself, Qaddafi died, leading to Benghazi, and Syria led to the Muslim takeover of Western Europe.

—Syria invites Russian forces in to fight USA-supported terrorists attacking government.

—USA looks like pussies compared to Russians; Obama/Clinton rails against Russians; Trump wins.


158 posted on 01/02/2017 8:37:46 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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