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Originally Posted by Surf-n-Turf
This word Empire is being bantied about rather loosely here. Have we not had military bases around the world for some time now? I know because I have been to a lot of them since 1963. Seems like that's a long time before GW took office.
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Yes, and we should be shutting many of them down and bringing our boys home, not adding to them. The maintenance of those military bases, many of which are completely pointless from a national security perspective, comsumes an enormous portion of our federal budget.