Wasting billions of dollars in Afghanistan

[dogtowner]

If it was the Democrats who ignored the rules, then it must be OK, right?

If they were published and available to all, then you should have no trouble stating your interpretation of them.

If they're published there is no interpretation.
You did not care for the reasons and so leaned on interpretation to cloud it.
We're your boys right to do so ? Of course not but following rules is not part of the donkey playbook.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Wouldn't it have been a lot easier and cheaper just to shut down a few refineries "for maintenance?"[/QUOTE

THE FAMILY THAT PREYS TOGETHER STAYS TOGETHER

If that were reality rather than theory, Big Oil could have gouged us at the maximum rate for the last 40 years. I suspect you don't want anyone to realize that the two GB wars there were fought solely to raise oil prices.

 

[PLC1]

If they're published there is no interpretation.
You did not care for the reasons and so leaned on interpretation to cloud it.
We're your boys right to do so ? Of course not but following rules is not part of the donkey playbook.

What the government says is the objective, and what the real objective is, sometimes are two different things.

 

[dogtowner]

What the government says is the objective, and what the real objective is, sometimes are two different things.

Certainly was with LBJ but other times it isnt.
Some like to think Bush was on some personal vendetta with Iraq because it sounded better than the actual.

 

[PLC1]

Certainly was with LBJ but other times it isnt.
Some like to think Bush was on some personal vendetta with Iraq because it sounded better than the actual.

What the government says is the objective, and what the real objective is, sometimes are two different things regardless of the party of the president at the time.

 

[dogtowner]

What the government says is the objective, and what the real objective is, sometimes are two different things regardless of the party of the president at the time.

And other times they are not.

 

[Aus22]

THE AFGHANISTAN war has been our longest and most unsuccessful

 

[PLC1]

THE AFGHANISTAN war has been our longest and most unsuccessful

Second most, after Vietnam.