Ah, the art of the deal. When I make an offer on a house, my opening offer is always one dollar. Works like a charm.
Absolutely bonkers that our children will be sent
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Yes. And you always list at the minimum price you’re willing to accept, right? SMH
Can you handle the math on 2019 minus 10?
Was 2001-2008 in this century?
Also note the ‘in Afghanistan’ qualifier.
I gave you stats and a link to the DoD’s own figures, and you follow up with a multiple criteria exception from Al Jazeera.
Dumbass.
Totally agree on Trump. What say you about BO and JB?
Record 7,423 US bombs dropped in Afghanistan in 2019: Report
The US has ramped up air bombings since Donald Trump was elected president in 2016.www.aljazeera.com
Donald Trump Is Dropping Bombs at Unprecedented Levels
The candidate who once warned America about Hillary Clinton's hawkishness is turning into a war machine.foreignpolicy.com
You are a warmongering cuck for Trump, and an easy mark for propaganda when he hides his numbers…
Trump has shrouded his war-making in even greater secrecy than Obama. The US military has not published a monthly Airpower Summary since February 2020, nor official troop deployment numbers for Afghanistan, Iraq, or Syria for nearly three years. But the United States has dropped at least twenty thousand bombs on Afghanistan since Trump came to power, and there is no evidence of a reduction in bombing under the peace agreement the administration signed with the Taliban in February. Some US troops have been withdrawn under that agreement, but the remaining 8,600 are still being replaced as their tours end, keeping US troop strength at about the same level as when Obama left office.
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Trump has vetoed every bill passed by Congress to disengage US forces from the Saudi war in Yemen and to halt the sales of US-made warplanes and bombs, which the Saudis use to systematically kill Yemeni civilians. He created a new conflict with Iran by pulling out of the nuclear deal, and in January 2020, he capriciously flirted with a full-scale war on Iran by ordering the assassination of Iran’s General Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi military commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in Iraq.
Trump’s bizarre decision to move the US Embassy in Israel to a plot of land that is only partly within Israel’s internationally recognized borders – and partly on Palestinian territory that Israel is illegally occupying – quite literally took US international relations into uncharted territory. Then Trump unveiled a so-called peace plan based on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ambition to annex the rest of Palestine into a “Greater Israel” with vastly expanded – but still unrecognized and illegal – international borders.
Trump has also backed a coup in Bolivia, staged several failed ones in Venezuela, and targeted even the United States’ closest allies with sanctions to try to prevent them from trading with US enemies. Trump’s brutal sanctions on Venezuela, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Cuba are not a peaceful alternative to war, but a form of economic warfare just as deadly as bombs, especially during a pandemic and its accompanying economic meltdown.
A Boon to the Merchants of Death
Once the large-scale US military occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan ended under Obama, the US military budget fell to $621 billion by 2015. But since then, military spending for procurement, research and development (R&D), and base construction has risen by 39 percent. This has been a huge windfall for the Big Five US weapons makers – Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics – whose arms sales revenues rose 30 percent between 2015 and 2019.
The 49 percent increase to more than $100 billion for R&D on new weapons systems in 2020, part of the enormous $718 billion Pentagon budget, is a down payment on trillions of dollars in future revenue for the merchants of death unless these programs are stopped.[/]
Trump who vowed to end wars has dropped more bombs than Bush or Obama - 2LT News
On June 13, President Donald Trump told the graduating class at West Point, “We are ending the era of endless wars.” That is what Trump has promised since 2016, but the “endless” wars have not ended. Trump has dropped more bombs and missiles than George W. Bush or Barack Obama did in their first...www.2lt.com.au
People should have listened to Obama when he was outspoken AGAINST the Iraq War from the start and he got us out of it. Joe Biden got us out of Afghanistan and we aren't continuously seeing American dead out of there. I'm very concerned with the use of drones though. Too many mistakes that have happened, including during Obama's presidency. It's not as discriminate a type of bombing as the Pentagon has sold us that it was.
It wasn't by his choice, which is how you're misrepresenting it.
"In January 2011, once the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was formed, President Obama decided, with the concurrence of his advisers, to keep troops on. But he wasn't yet willing to tell Prime Minister Maliki or the American people. First, Washington had to determine the size of a residual force. That dragged on, with the military pushing for a larger force, and the White House for a small presence at or below 10,000, due to costs and the president's prior "all troops out" position. In June the president decided on the force level (eventually 5,000) and obtained Mr. Maliki's assent to new SOFA talks.
The Obama administration was willing to "roll over" the terms of the 2008 Status of Forces Agreement as long as the new agreement, like the first, was ratified by the Iraqi Parliament.
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The withdrawal of troops allowed President Obama to declare that he was "ending the war in Iraq" -- oddly, since it was the Bush administration's military victories and successful negotiation of the 2008 Status of Forces Agreement that had set the timeline for U.S. troop withdrawal. Later, during the 2012 presidential debates, Mr. Obama inexplicably denied that he had even attempted to keep troops in Iraq."
-James Jeffrey, U.S. ambassador to Iraq in 2010-12
And then, of course, Obama sent troops back into Iraq to fight ISIS when CIA and gulf monarchy funding/arming of jihadists against Assad went sideways...
