Brent, I really hate to contrast you, I appreciate your mind and stances. However:
*"About 1700 US troops died in Afghanistan in six years under Obama. About 600 died under Bush. In Iraq 256 died under Obama, and 4500 under Bush. But a "further hundred thousand" is accurate enough for Fox News."* is official warmonger statistics, counting only select cadavers 'over there' and discounting the victims of dying en-route or at home, later on outside the official statistical restraints. I wrote about 'victims' (called heros?) forced into war and I also referred to other type victims, like those who came home with injuries (bodily AND/OR mentally) plus those whose lifes has been interrupted (marriage, careet, family etc.) why I wrote *"sent to"* and not *"returned dead"*. It is not a Fox soundbite, I am not supporting either of our political parties. (Your supporting Sanders seems commendable, although not too hopeful.) JM On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 5:31 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/16/2015 12:52 PM, John Mikes wrote: > >> Brent: >> did it slip your mind that your friend, the prez started the Arab >> Awakening by stabbing Mubarak in the back by his letter and supporting the >> US-enemy Morsi ("The first DEMOCRATICALLY(?) elected Egyptian prez and his >> Brotherhood!!!) >> > > What's your point?...that we should have continued to support Mubarak the > same way we did the Shah in Iran? I don't think Morsi was a US enemy > except in the sense that any despotic tyrant should not be regarded as a US > friend. > > together with his then Foreign Sec'y Hillary, giving billions in weapons >> etc. >> > > Egypt has been a big recipient of U.S. foreign aid since WW2, but it only > gets about half as much as Israel. > > - then again he stuffed the investors' etc. pockets with our health-care >> billion dollars >> > > Sounds like you write sound-bites for Fox News. Under Obama the rate of > growth in per capita healthcare cost has been brought down closer to the > overall inflation rate. So there are no extra billions for investors in > health care. > > and >> sent further hundredthousand Americans to their demise in the Middle East >> (very few come home sane and safe) >> > > About 1700 US troops died in Afghanistan in six years under Obama. About > 600 died under Bush. In Iraq 256 died under Obama, and 4500 under Bush. > But a "further hundred thousand" is accurate enough for Fox News. > > and so on and on. But he is a religious(?) chap. >> >> Atheism is more than just absence of belief IMO: it requires a >> supernatural to disbelief in it. >> > > So does disbelief in witches require that witches exist "to disbelief > in"? How about your disbelief in a competent Obama? Does it require that > a competent Obama exist? > > I look at a 'religiously motivated violence' with suspicion since I still >> look for a fitting definition for 'religious'. I asked Samiya where does >> 'Satan' come into the picture in vain. IMO every thinking person starts out >> with SOME belief (e.g. the existence (reality?) of an infinite complexity >> we like to call 'WORLD'' of which we only know a small fraction.) >> >> Telmo's 'douchebag' is a criminal: he lured character-weak persons into >> his casinos to take their money (legitimately!) and added it to his >> billions. Every gambling Bigboss is a criminal. I saw too much in my 93 >> years so far. >> >> I am not an ''A"- THEIST, I am an ágnostic. >> > > So you're uncertain as to whether there's an extremely powerful person who > created the world and loves you and wants you to love him and if you don't > he'll torture you forever in an afterlife. Just how uncertain are you > about this? 50:50? 40:60? > > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
