US soldiers in combat could use an assist from a civilian workforce while trying to rebuild war-torn nations, President Barack Obama said Wednesday.
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Is this Obama's modern day version of CCC ?
No Obama has jumped the shark
usmcr 1 hour ago
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WTF? Does he have any idea how much MORE it would cost to send civilians? Freakin haliburton was charging $100 a bag to do laundry for the troops. They didn't even do a good job. But when troops tried to do their own laundry they were FORCED to turn their laundry over to Haliburton to screw up.
How about this... How about we admit we publicly admit that "botch and company" screwed the pooch on this one. They lied us into an illegal war that simple. Say we are sorry and prosecute Bush/cheney and the rest of the criminal... At least this way there would actually be some winners.. And we might even recover a small margin of the HUGE loss of respect we have suffered in the last 10 years. I think its safe to say about 75% of the people on this planet know...... Bush lied and we had no legal reason to attack Iraq. So why do we continue to pretend theres a good REASON to still be there? Whats to gain? Until this country admits the truth we can give Iraq our last dime and nothing is going to change.
Paul_McClure 1 hour ago
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End the war. Bring the troops home. End the fools errand.
Domestically you want to employ and occasionally retrain millions of Americans to make the country stronger. Don't you think employing and training locals would be better for their country. We are addressing none of the real problems, lack of political unity, corrupt governance, not really a nation as we understand nations - just an area on a map. Constructing an infrastructure beyond their ability to sustain is as foolish as the bridge to nowhere when actually used infrastructure is falling down.
We have a window to draw down coming up use it. Given the 'success' in Iraq we should return the military to barracks so they can do no harm.
donofcali 1 hour ago in reply to Prattvictory
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Getting your legs blown off is an example of Obama's change.
Prattvictory 2 hours ago
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Bill Clinton is Barbara Bush's fourth son, Barack Obama is her fifth.
You sold us bullshit.
voreason3 2 hours ago
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And we would call this group the...
Cannon fodder brigade?
Seriously, if I were to volunteer to go to Afghanistan, I'd want to go with weapons training and weapons.