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(Foreign Affairs) Obvious McCain campaign says he will raise Defense budget   (foreignaffairs.org) divider line 39
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keiverarrow [TotalFark] 2008-06-12 03:41:23 PM  
Sweet, the military industrial complex doesn't get nearly enough of my tax money.

 
SushiJoe [TotalFark] 2008-06-12 03:49:40 PM  
the pancake defense fund

 
HulkHands [TotalFark] 2008-06-12 04:13:01 PM  
img.photobucket.com

...might as well post this in the flop, too

 
dillenger69 [TotalFark] 2008-06-12 04:15:59 PM  
img165.imageshack.us

 
letdogsvote 2008-06-12 04:25:49 PM  
What, wait?

 
SushiJoe [TotalFark] 2008-06-12 04:27:49 PM  
I see that waffles come with the pancakes too

 
NightOwl2255 2008-06-12 04:34:29 PM  
Well damn people, when you talk about pissing away a billion here and a billion there pretty soon you're talking about real money. It's got to come from somewhere. Granny ain't going to go hungry. Cat food is still less then a buck a can, for the cheap shiat.

 
quickdraw [TotalFark] 2008-06-12 04:51:51 PM  
slicknovel.com

 
Jamespoon [TotalFark] 2008-06-12 05:04:08 PM  
I feel like I have been here before, except I'm quite sure I haven't.

 
Two Dogs Farking [TotalFark] 2008-06-12 05:12:32 PM  
Somehow I can't shake the feeling that this has all happened before...

/nor my hunger for PANCAKES

 
Running a-puck 2008-06-12 05:12:49 PM  
I think you're seeing things

 
Kanaloa [TotalFark] 2008-06-12 05:24:38 PM  
Oww... my brain....

 
Snowflake Tubbybottom 2008-06-12 05:33:53 PM  
keiverarrow: Sweet, the military industrial complex doesn't get nearly enough of my tax money.

Just think of it as a government jobs program and you'll be able to go back to dreaming happy little liberal dreams.

/plus we get some pretty nice, destructive hardware

 
Solid State Vittles 2008-06-12 05:38:36 PM  
Genius. Props to the admins for this.

 
FuturePastNow [TotalFark] 2008-06-12 06:14:31 PM  
Heh.

 
GAT_00 [TotalFark] 2008-06-12 06:17:29 PM  
I'm going with they're both true. More wars mean more military money, but at the same time spending cuts in reducing benefits to military personal. Because that's McBush's idea of conservative spending.

 
guilt by association 2008-06-12 06:26:11 PM  
What a maverick!

 
BenjaminFarklin 2008-06-12 06:29:09 PM  
But John McCain HATES war! He told me so on the TV.

 
DarnoKonrad 2008-06-12 06:30:15 PM  
img111.imageshack.us

 
robbiedo 2008-06-12 06:30:19 PM  
What we need is billions invested in getting America's Energy Future secured in a manner different from the Japanese strategy circa 1940.

Greater American Co-Prosperity Sphere, Inc.

 
MonkeyVegetables [TotalFark] 2008-06-12 06:32:59 PM  
lol props

 
MonkeyVegetables [TotalFark] 2008-06-12 06:34:51 PM  
PANCAKES!

 
lamenta3 2008-06-12 06:43:58 PM  
This(^) is just a sample of what John McCain will do with the defense budget.

/Support our troops?
//Not if you're John McCain.

 
TheOther [TotalFark] 2008-06-12 06:44:00 PM  
good job2

 
Zalan [TotalFark] 2008-06-12 06:44:43 PM  
i246.photobucket.com

 
Riomp300 2008-06-12 06:45:00 PM  
Theres a glitch in the matrix. Im seeing the same thread.

 
Korovyov [TotalFark] 2008-06-12 06:48:56 PM  

FTA:
Democratic candidates have promised to withdraw U.S. troops and "end the war" by fiat, regardless of consequences (on page 1)


From Sen. Obama's campaign website:
Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. He will remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months. Obama will make it clear that we will not build any permanent bases in Iraq. He will keep some troops in Iraq to protect our embassy and diplomats; if al Qaeda attempts to build a base within Iraq, he will keep troops in Iraq or elsewhere in the region to carry out targeted strikes on al Qaeda.
(emphasis mine)


More details in IraqFactSheet.pdf.


OK. Any reason to read past page 1?


 
ollin 2008-06-12 06:56:37 PM  
!desufnoc os ma I

 
KramericaWallet 2008-06-12 07:06:09 PM  
Anybody actually read that crap? Can you give us a cliffsnotes (R) version?
Not that I'd expect there to be anything meaningful in there...

 
kerpal32 2008-06-12 07:07:25 PM  
well - the admins sure got the "It's not news, it's Fark" part down.


Obama -- add 65000 troops
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/27/AR200704270202 7. html (pops)


Obama -- immediately bring troops home
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/foreignpolicy/ (pops)

whatever.

I'm sure the Fark admins would never play games with something like that.

 
KramericaWallet 2008-06-12 07:08:00 PM  
Caught this gem:
My administration will consider the use of all elements of American power to stop the outrageous acts of human destruction that have unfolded there. (Darfur)

Considering is easy. I'm sure Bush has done a lot of considering regarding Darfur in the last few years.

 
KramericaWallet 2008-06-12 07:12:33 PM  
kerpal
As is obvious, he meant increasing the personnel of the armed forces, not of the portion of them in Iraq. Still a bad idea, but not contradictory.

 
Walt_Jizzney 2008-06-12 07:18:08 PM  
www.shipbrook.com

Evil Spock finds this logical.

 
pup.socket 2008-06-12 08:43:11 PM  
that sucks!

 
Exodus2001 2008-06-12 08:46:05 PM  
pancakes

 
PlatinumDragon 2008-06-12 09:08:31 PM  
All of this has happened before, and will happen again.


/again
//again
///again
////again
//again
//again
//*boom*

 
Monkeypillow 2008-06-13 03:58:36 AM  
ollin: !desufnoc os ma I

ollin in the other thread: I am so confused!

Neat.

 
harryjrf 2008-06-13 12:01:47 PM  
What kind of stupid humor is this?!

/how do you pronounce "facetious"?

 
Xai 2008-06-14 08:43:48 AM  
wait, let me get a check on all this :

Mcain will, raise defence spending, increase healthcare spending, and lower taxes across the board.

Consideing the tax cuts alone will cost us another 4.5 trillion over 4 years ON TOP of the 600 billion we are losing every year at the moment, where is all this magic money going to come from?

 
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