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Pogo due Apology -- Again!

Message Rafe Pilgrim
In just 2 months, it will be 24 YEARS! that the USA has been fighting over Iraq in one way or another. Can you believe our first action was in 1990 to defend and protect the Kuwaiti people (well, yes, and the oil moguls) from the "evil" Saddam Hussein, and then there were the "weapons of mass destruction," and of course -- once there -- "Support Our Troops!" while bombing Iraqi cities, and also "extreme rendition," and then the Abu Ghraib torture "incidents," but -- oh yes -- we did indeed court martial one cute young girl -- from West Virginia? -- to take care of that (but whatever did the generals have to say?)
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And now -- Tra! Tra! --
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Obama: US will send fresh help to Iraq (see link below)
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Of course we'll now need to "Support Our Troops" all over again because of the "Jihadists" (read Iraqi Sunni) but you must admit that's now been proven not quite as costly as we cynics heretofore may have suspected, since once open hostilities decline, we'll just trim those pesky injured troops out of the V.A. budget.
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But there are indeed some positives in all this, for instance just consider the investment opportunities in oil, weapons industries, flags and bumper stickers!
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With all due apology to Pogo ("We have met the enemy and he is us.")
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.................Nine-year vet, Rafe Pilgrim
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http://www.aol.com/article/2014/06/13/obama-us-will-send-fresh-help-to-beleaguered-iraq/20911738/?icid=maing-grid7|htmlws-main-bb|dl2|sec1_lnk2&pLid=488051
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