Author Topic: What can $611 billion buy?  (Read 7163 times)

wooderson

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Re: What can $611 billion buy?
« Reply #25 on: February 02, 2008, 09:04:23 PM »
Our troops stationed in Germany, Japan and Korea are not an occupying force engaged in daily combat. There is no comparison on any level between Iraq and those Cold War-derived garrisons.
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Tecumseh

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Re: What can $611 billion buy?
« Reply #26 on: February 03, 2008, 12:53:31 AM »
Why are they there then?  Why not back here at home in the USA?