This week, I am introducing legislation to end a war that should have ended long ago, the war in Afghanistan. The United States has been fighting the War on Terror since October of 2001 and it has cost 6 trillion dollars. pic.twitter.com/UBxeq0NsQe
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 5, 2019
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Yea … nothing more than political grandstanding/theatre. Nothing is going to change. Our owners desire war. There are more islands in the pacific they want to accumulate.
Two reasons it is. Drugs, oil. The PTB do not want it in the hands of Russia or China. Or some despot mired in medieval religious zealotry. Though seldom factored in reasons I have seen, mineral deposits are at stake. Long ago I read there were oil reserves waiting to be tapped, Perhaps ?
Long time ago, Rumsfeld floated the notion of rare earth minerals, the US picked up where the Russians stopped in their exploration. Never heard about it again. I guess there could be oil near the Iranian border (desert), certainly not in northern Afghanistan (mountains).
“Afghanistan has five known crude oil sites located in Amu River basin in the north, Helmand, Herat and Katawaz in the southeastern province of Paktika.
Amu River basin
The sedimentary crude oil zone of Amu River is situated in the north and northwest of the country bordering Turkmenistan and Tajikistan.
The crude oil zone is stretched over 75,000 square kilometres. Officially, its survey started with the collaboration of former Soviet Union in 1958 following an agreement between the two counties. Sources said around 500 digging spots had been identified. So far 67 spot have been explored in which eight had natural gas and six contained crude oil.
It is estimated that these reserves hold 962 million barrels of crude oil and 52 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. The original reserves had 120 billion cubic feet of natural gas of which 57.5 billion cubic feet gas had been utilised. In terms of reserves, the Amu crude oil and gas zone is considered to be 15 in the rank out of total 152 oil and gas zones in the world.”
http://mines.pajhwok.com/content/oil-afghanistan
Dozens of online reports about oil and Afghanistan…
Colorado is rich in oil fields.
Hey Rand, ask your old man to break this down for you:
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
Henry David Thoreau
No, no, no, no, no!
We can’t leave yet!
We haven’t finished “bringing them Democracy!”
//sarc off//
FAKE AS FUCK!
Seriously folks, shit like this is intended for one thing along: to pacify nominal conservatives and fool them into thinking something is being done (or can be done) to fix things.
THERE ARE NO POLITICAL SOLUTIONS TO THE CURRENT SITUATION!
Oil your guns and pitchforks!
Some one out there is just down votin’ you just because it’s you, I guess……..who in hell would disagree with this?
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum- I don’t want to see it !! But REAL CHAOS is coming !
$2500 Victory Bonus for every soldier who served? EVERY one?
Can someone give me a quick head count on how many people we taxpayers will owe $2500 for their service in the War on Terror?
Rand mentioned 3 million x $2500 = 7 billion. Cheap really if this actually happened. I don’t care if it is grandstanding or not, at least it is being said and the important “head count” is who doesn’t vote for it.
We have been at war for 222 of 239 years we have been a country. Disgraceful, eh?
https://washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/america-war-93-time-222-239-years-since-1776.html
Rand they are writing your suicide note as I type this
Rand is a traitor of this country from here on out. Go home a fuck a goat in Kentucky.