Dec 18
So we are going to waste $100 billion dollars A YEAR to help countries that will squander it?
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has promised the United States will help raise $100 billion annually by 2020 to assist poor countries in coping with climate change as long as America’s demands for a global warming pledge are met.
All tied to a fake crisis?
Could we have any worse leaders?
December 18th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
And the several hundred billions and thirty plus thousand Americans killed and wounded we spent letting loose chaos in Iraq was something we could well afford in a noble cause? “All tied to a fake crisis?”
December 18th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
So one wrong supports another?
Or if Bush can waste money, my guy can too?
You know I don’t support how we did Iraq or Afghanistan. And I won’t ask you how come you aren’t so eager to be “preventive” when it comes to our national security.
In any event you are comparing apples and oranges… this commitment is forever. Wars end eventually.
December 18th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
#1 use of casualty figures is disengenous at best. “Thirty thousand plus”. Please. So you are going to lump the guy who got his foot run over by a Humvee in the same group as someone killed in combat so the numbers look worse? Pretty transparent, and pretty lame.
December 19th, 2009 at 7:48 am
Hello #3, are you just nitpicking for fun or do you have some responsible data as a basis for hinting that the DOD figures could be seriously inflated? It should be relatively easy to find peacetime death and injury rates that would have happened anyway and should be subtracted from casualty rates attributable to the specific war. What do you think the DOD standard is for counting an injury?
December 19th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Where’s Socrates when you need him?