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Thanks. Medical science has established pretty conclusively that most people only use around 10% of their brains. If you give me credit for using half of mine that puts me 5 times better than most. :)
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Ah well for what good it does you, it may well not have been the case. :D
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I'm an advocate for abolishing the income tax altogether so I'm generally opposed to anything that dips into my pocket except for defense.
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So I can presume you’re a stickler for light sabres too?
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*Originally posted by myvoice: * As to paying for the current war, compared to the staggering financial losses sustained as a direct result of the attacks on 9/11, this war is a real bargain.
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I’m not sure where you got that from but back it up with some figures as an example and I might be inclined to believe it.
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Compared to the potential economic losses derived from future terrorist attacks in the US using WMD, this war's costs are like a single drop in a very big ocean.
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If its true about this war creating more hatred and thus more 'terrorists' more likely to cause US interests greaters harm then thats your theory about potential attacks gone done the drain. In the long term this was a greater cause of economic loss than any other could ever hope to be.
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As to the $4 billion sent to Israel every year, I really would have thought that they could have murdered much more than a few hundred children each year. Not much bang for that buck is there? BTW, if you had read more of my posts over the last year and a half, you'd have learned that I'm a big devotee of diverting much of that $4 billion annually to the Palestinians to build their economy and develop their infrastructure .... but only after they rid themselves of the suicide bombers and fanatic groups that still maintain a proclaimed policy for the destruction of Israel and against any negotiated peace.
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So the life of a child is worth less to you than a dollar a dime?! Way to go. If truth be known to Americans over half of whom live at or below the poverty line and with in the current circumstances many losing all they've ever had, without the current censorship in place, exactly how much Israel actually gets from the US, there would be a public outcry. To that $4 billion of direct foreign aid, add a few billion more in indirect investment in the form of the military machine of the IDF all subsidised by the US, the interests accrued by having one lump sum of 'aid' in US banks which incidentally no other countries are allowed, the billions in forgiven loans and 'special grants' for projects such as 'special counter terrorism equipment' etc not to mention how the US bends over backwards to borrow billions to finance Israel adding to an already huge deficit. American taxpayers pay over $23 thousand for every single Israeli in Israel. If you are really that big a devotee of the Palestinian cause and for their economic development as you say you are then please instead of patronising us the least you can do is to pressure your congressman/woman to cut down aid to Israel which forms over a third of US foreign aid and to give at least half in equivalent to Palestinians. I'll believe you then not before and so I hope you can understand my cynicism at your claims for the Palestenian cause.
one last thing pre-conditions are not going to get you anywhere so might as well drop the pretense.