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breaking: nobel peace prize winner has covert war going in yemen, ups record for wars actively engaged in to 4...nm

Posted by x (aka dmuck) Jun 9 '11, 03:44

ha

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this is news? -- nm - znufrii Jun 9, 04:25 8
- that the guy is basically bush jr? not really....nm - x Jun 9, 04:26 7
  - specifically about our covert engagement in Yemen, i mean. - znufrii Jun 9, 04:30 4
    - This is the first I have heard of it -- nm - amoxy Jun 9, 06:18 1
      - Well, it started out as a campaign to assassinate an American citizen... -- nm - znufrii Jun 9, 06:32
    - yeah, they're just leaking that they're intensifying the drone war. in yemen the "democratic protesters" are apparently "militants"!....nm - x Jun 9, 04:34 1
      - there was a timely piece in the new yorker about them in april. apparently our plan B for saleh's removal was . . . -- (link) - moles Jun 9, 04:40
  - but he voted against the iraq war in 2004. surely that must mean he's a progressive's dream -- nm - moles Jun 9, 04:27 1
    - right. plus he's a big supporter of the arab spring! at least in some countries. depending on what military government can be put in place....nm - x Jun 9, 04:29
what i can't figure out is how massive deficit spending on one world war was enough to pull us out of the great depression - moles Jun 9, 03:48 4
- Less outsourcing back then. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 9, 06:13 1
  - defense stuff rarely gets outsourced. then spending meant many factory jobs, now it hours into the engineering which is made largely by robots. -- nm - zork Jun 9, 06:24
- 1945 defense spending was about $800 billion in today's money, and close to 38% of GDP. - mafic Jun 9, 04:11
- um....things were different then?....nm - x Jun 9, 03:58

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