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Originally Posted by Griff
Genuine is the key word here. I don't think we can build it without some two-faced pol high-jacking it.
What do the odds look like on Somalia? You know gambling might be the answer to all our problems... I'd like to lay 20 bills on SoshSecurity not being available to me at retirement.
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I won't take that wager, kid, because:
a) You get to pay for your folk's and my retirement plus every costly little invasion to "liberate" the people of an oil producing country. By time you hit 80 (the age it will then be required to reach to collect social security), there ain't gonna be nothing left in ANYONE'S pocketbook.
b) I'll be dead and I don't wanna mess around trying to collect on gambling debts from a previous life time.
Does Somalia have oil reserves? If so, I'll place one of my chips on it while the pol's spin the international roulette wheel greased with petroleum. No oil, and I'll fold.
We are going to leave N. Korea to the tender mercies of the Chinese unless Wal-Mart demands a US intervention, in which case US troops lacking proper equipment and supplies will be landing in N. Korea shortly.
At this point, there is no way we can invade Iran without a draft. Our military is already falling short of man power, as it is. Wounded soldiers are being billed for their damaged body armor; communities are holding bake sales to raise the money to send their young people serving in Iraq things like razors, frito's and underwear.
If we waltz into Iran at any time in the near future, we are either going to be humiliated militarily or else every single one of you guys under age 30 is going to be reporting in to his local selective service board.
If the latter happens, this will bring the fact of our leaders' stupidity home to enough Americans that a genuine outcry will be raised at long last.