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Old 01-18-2010, 11:32 AM   #1
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As for the Marines arriving with weapons, well yea, they are Marines, that is what they do. I wouldn't want to be in that country without a weapon at this point and time if I were them.
I wouldn't have wanted to be there without a weapon, before the quake.

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It would have cost less in lives and money if we had been good neighbors proactively.
OK, Chavez. The UN had peace keeping people there, something like 5000 of them. What should we have done, invade the country?
Nobody in their right mind is going to invest in an unstable, lawless, country.
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Old 01-18-2010, 12:30 PM   #2
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... Nobody in their right mind is going to invest in an unstable, lawless, country.
We're investing through charities now, though. Hmmm.
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