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"Shooter please name the tangible benefits "we the people" have reaped from the umpteen trillions spent on funding and using our standing military across foreign lands in the last 50 years? Start with Grenada, Nicaragua, Iraq, Viet Nam, Korea, Afghanistan or any other scrappy little country thousands of miles away that we've decided to splatter against the wall to show our cultural and economic dominance? Where's my peace dividend by the way? Does it come in the mail after my stimulus check?"
Until you brought up Grenada. We all know -- at least those who don't wear liberal rose-colored glasses -- that President Reagan saved the United States from certain destruction by invading Granada, which was only pretending to be a small island, and which we all know -- except for you touchy-feely liberals -- was working with the Axis of Evil to transform its deceptively-small smoking gun into a mushroom cloud.
And remember: as former National Security Council head and "Principals" committee chair Condoleeza Rice said, "We don't torture."
