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wandy

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4. Thank you. And I understand this is not a complaint about Obama.........

Reply to last1standing (Original post)

Fri Sep 6, 2013, 12:03 PM

Sep 2013

It is a complaint about what we have become.
What is happening in Syria is an atrocity. It is no less an atrocity that we allow our own children to go hungry, our own to die for lack of medical attention, the framework so many have worked for to decay.

We may have military might but we are allowing the strength that supports that might to crumble as we stand by and do nothing.

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A Government that has money for bombs but not for bridges has lost its credibility. [View all] last1standing Sep 2013 OP

hmmm...bumper sticker: Build Bridges, not Bombs. magical thyme Sep 2013 #1

There is always real CASH for war, but vacuous HOPE for broken bridges. jsr Sep 2013 #2

It's how empires work. NuclearDem Sep 2013 #3

Thank you. And I understand this is not a complaint about Obama......... wandy Sep 2013 #4

Exactly. last1standing Sep 2013 #7

A Government that cuts safety nets for the vulnerable has lost its credibility Autumn Sep 2013 #5

Bingo! City Lights Sep 2013 #6

As long as war is profitable whatchamacallit Sep 2013 #8

Until we are no more. last1standing Sep 2013 #9

K & R; What he said. TheJames Sep 2013 #10

DURec leftstreet Sep 2013 #11

All we have to do is elect the right guy -- someday n/t Nuclear Unicorn Sep 2013 #12

We need more than the right guy, we need the right people. last1standing Sep 2013 #13