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popsdenver

(1,860 posts)
24. Same for our phony invasion of IRAQ
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 03:27 PM
Jan 10

The entire U.S. Military, and taxpayer money spent, so that Cheney/Rumsfeld could divide IRAQ up among six U.S. Oil Companies.
The expenses for the IRAQ war are still continuing to mount...Injured, maimed soldiers, replacement of arms used, etc.
The current estimate for the U.S., so far, (for the total U.S. cost of the IRAQ war), just passed TWO TRILLION DOLLARS and still counting....
Rumsfeld told us the IRAQ invasion, was going to be over in THREE DAYS, the citizens of IRAQ would be lining the streets throwing flowers at our troops leaving, and the total cost to the U.S. Taxpayers would be THREE BILLION dollars, which would be repaid by IRAQ owned oil companies, from the sales of the countries oil in the first year.......

Greenland can't put up much resistance, I think their entire population is something like 50,000 people.
Putin desperately needs/wants not only Greenland, but Iceland, Northern Canada, and even Alaska if he can get it back.....
And Trump/Republicans will try and get it so that Putin won't disgrace them all with Kompromat collected over decades, along with all the Ton of Epstein material Putin possesses......

If Trump and Republicans go into Greenland, The other NATO countries will have to come from Europe to help defend Greenland from the U.S. (and Russia), and Trump will leave NATO........Greenland will be conquered without the U.S. to defend them, and the European NATO countries won't be able to help Greenland and also defend themselves form Putin's invasions, just like Hitler in WWII.

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K&R spanone Jan 10 #1
Greed and ignorance kill malaise Jan 10 #2
+1. Paperwork means nothing to the rapist dalton99a Jan 10 #3
Imperial powers, dividing up stuff leftstreet Jan 10 #4
People and stuff malaise Jan 10 #5
Exactly what chump and the oil companies were doing BidenRocks Jan 10 #12
Same for our phony invasion of IRAQ popsdenver Jan 10 #24
"Cheney/Rumsfeld could divide IRAQ up among six U.S. Oil Companies." Yup, you nailed it. Follow the money.nt mitch96 Jan 10 #28
Yup popsdenver Jan 11 #29
Biden's fault. twodogsbarking Jan 10 #6
Thanks, Obama. JoseBalow Jan 10 #7
Trump doesn't honor agreements, even the ones he makes. surfered Jan 10 #8
Erasing history is important for MAGA IronLionZion Jan 10 #9
I guess it's been caught in the right wing's craw since grampy Trump did the draft dodge out of... Hugin Jan 10 #10
These don't mean anything anymore. We were supposed to defend Ukraine Arazi Jan 10 #11
Might not want to ask the Kurds! BidenRocks Jan 10 #13
Exactly. Trump can do what ever the fuck he wants apparently. progressoid Jan 10 #18
Trump keeps claiming Russia and China are going to take over Greenland. OnlinePoker Jan 10 #14
trump has never honored agreements he, himself, made. Why would he honor agreements others made? nt Wounded Bear Jan 10 #15
All I see is "Denmark's rights to Greenland were confirmed". But where? How? Callie1979 Jan 10 #16
Denmark extending their interests to the whole of Greenland ... TomWilm Jan 10 #23
Thanks very much! Callie1979 Jan 10 #27
As confirmed by the US in 2004 with a new defense agreement ... TomWilm Jan 10 #17
Thanks for this Bayard Jan 10 #19
Screenshot for the Twitterless FakeNoose Jan 10 #20
K&R Bayard Jan 10 #21
I just hope tfg does not just start sending troops to the airbase in G'land.. More and more troops and then mitch96 Jan 10 #22
Or... Wednesdays Jan 10 #25
During the run up to the Vietnam war there was the false flag Tolkin Gulf incident... Our reason to escalate..uff mitch96 Jan 11 #31
The full treaty: "Convention between the United States and Denmark for cession of the Danish West Indies." sop Jan 10 #26
K&R orangecrush Jan 11 #30
Problem is, there's news out there, that the few Greenlanders have been drifting UTUSN Jan 11 #32
A little history on how the US agreed in 1916 to Denmark's control of Greenland in exchange for the Virgin Islands. LetMyPeopleVote Jan 11 #33
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