Sherlock Holmes and the case of NO SHIT!

[doe_witch]

Cost of Wars a Rising Issue as Obama Weighs Troop Levels
By HELENE COOPER
Published: June 21, 2011

WASHINGTON - President Obama will talk about troop numbers in Afghanistan when he makes a prime-time speech from the White House on Wednesday night. But behind his words will be an acute awareness of what $1.3 trillion in spending on two wars in the

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[crossfire]

Best. Post title. EVER.

[doe_witch]

*bows!*

[poetic_pixie_13]

After Senator Manchin made his speech on Tuesday calling for an end to nation-building in Afghanistan, Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, took to the floor to rebuke him, calling Mr. Manchin’s remarks characteristic of the “isolationist-withdrawal-lack-of-knowledge-of-history attitude that seems to be on the rise.”

[doe_witch]

... fucking christ I need more SH gifs in my life. *_*

[stalkedbychibis]

MTE

((OT: mmmm, Jude Law!Watson...))

[doe_witch]

Don't start me. Don't start me.

[erunamiryene]

Oh, have we started caring about the cost of our wars? Talk about too fucking late in the game, guys. You know, since they've been going on for fucking ELEVEN FUCKING YEARS.

I'm guessing we just mean MONETARY cost, since the Almighty Dollar is the only important thing here, not ... you know, lives ended for NO FUCKING GOOD REASON AT ALL or anything.

there is clearly some queasiness about war spending during a period of economic distress

Oh, go fuck yourselves. Where were you in fucking 2001 and 2003? That's right, cheering on Shrub Jr and his "bringing democracy to the world", aka going to "teach them peoples a lesson". Fuck you. Fuck YOU.

[stalkedbychibis]

Will we choose to rebuild America or Afghanistan? In light of our nation’s fiscal peril, we cannot do both.”

[thepikey]

They had bridges etc. of their own. Then we came over and broke their toys. Now we gotta replace 'em. Figure it out, yo.