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allgood33

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5. Most of it. I remember when Hugo was sending fuel to poor people in major cities across the US.

Reply to burrowowl (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 1, 2018, 11:15 PM

Dec 2018

But Mattis...nooo..

Why don't we send food, clothes, and building materials to these nations instead of making weapons to fight them. If we use the money and other resources we used for wars and other conflicts across the world we could make these troubled and troublesome nations more productive and safer for their own people.

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Mattis condemns Venezuela's Maduro as a 'despot' who has to go [View all] Zorro Dec 2018 OP

Mattis has experience with despotic leaders who need to go. CentralMass Dec 2018 #1

Yeah he works and supports a despot right now. Farmer-Rick Dec 2018 #15

And how much of this crap is due to burrowowl Dec 2018 #2

little to none. but we have to let them break with it. we have our own shit JI7 Dec 2018 #3

Most of it. I remember when Hugo was sending fuel to poor people in major cities across the US. allgood33 Dec 2018 #5

Except Venz. refuses humanitarian aid, claims there is no need and the US has offered it. EX500rider Dec 2018 #12

All of it. Farmer-Rick Dec 2018 #16

More like almost none of it... EX500rider Dec 2018 #18

Yeah, give me unbiased sources for your endless list of sins. Farmer-Rick Dec 2018 #20

Please, you have drank the KoolAid, there is no source you would accept. EX500rider Dec 2018 #21

Did he just figure that out? blueinredohio Dec 2018 #4

Well, Maduro IS a despot... but... Adrahil Dec 2018 #6

I wonder if Maduro will send tRump Wolf Frankula Dec 2018 #7

He'd be the sort to get a JDAM through his bedroom window shortly after also. EX500rider Dec 2018 #22

Repugs and the military need a bad guy to point at.... KY_EnviroGuy Dec 2018 #8

Says the government who funded plenty of despots in the past. Crowman2009 Dec 2018 #9

Be prepared to wake up one morning and SayItLoud Dec 2018 #10

There is a reason that we invade Grenada. Cold War Spook Dec 2018 #13

Invaded Venezuela ala Reagan into Grenada...NO Farmer-Rick Dec 2018 #17

This is the kind of crap that's put Venezuela into the situation its in. They give up Maduro ... marble falls Dec 2018 #11

What about Saudi Arabia? JonLP24 Dec 2018 #14

The US has never met a despot it wasn't willing to support if conditions were right Devil Child Dec 2018 #19