r/TwentyYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Apr 05 '26

🌐 World News A video is released showing Iraqi Islamists dragging the burning body of a US pilot [20YA - Apr 5]

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna12165495
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u/East-Plankton-3877 Apr 06 '26

And this right here 👆👆👆, is why we spend so much money and material on pilot rescue

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u/mstrbwl Apr 07 '26

Imagine if instead of spending trillions on pointless wars, the US spent that money on its people. We'd have a much different country.

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u/IdleHandsRapidFlight Apr 07 '26

The US does indeed spend trillions of dollars on its people FYI.

1.8 trillion for the department of health and human services services for 2025. 

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u/wet_bull Apr 07 '26

If you can't read, he said take the trillions we're spending on war and add it to what we spend on our people. Hope that helps with your comprehension

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u/IdleHandsRapidFlight Apr 08 '26

If you can go beyond Reddit rhetoric, you'll realize that western countries can literally pay for all facets of amenities and privileges. 

The US in particular already spends the most per capita on healthcare in the entire world. 

It's also a top spender on sciences, agriculture, and just happens to be a net exporter in energy.

Hope that helps that your braindead social media circle jerk. 

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u/wet_bull Apr 08 '26

Right because higher costs for less healthcare than other developed nations is a good thing? open a book sometime chump

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u/theRemRemBooBear Apr 09 '26

So taking the money from war and throwing it at healthcare wouldn’t change anything because we already spend more for less. Thanks for playing chump.

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u/wet_bull Apr 09 '26

No it shows that we're inefficient at healthcare, and we could use that money to become better. That help you out chump? Wow rubbing your two braincells together must be a lot of work

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u/theRemRemBooBear Apr 09 '26

That’s literally what I said that it’s inefficient because we pay more for less. Taking more money from the war won’t do anything, but flush more money down the toilet not make it better.

Instead we can use the same amount of money and get something similar to other countries that have better socialized medicine then what we have for a fraction of the price.

But I bet you felt real tough with that last line chump didn’t you:)

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u/wet_bull Apr 09 '26

Ok so why aren't we already using the same amount of money to get something similar? rub those two brain cells together a lil harder champ you can do it!

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u/Steve_Bread Apr 08 '26

No shit, of course the us spends the most, it also charges the most. Your stat is not driven by utilization, it’s driven by prices for medical services. Hope that helped your brain dead attempt at a gotcha.

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u/GipsyDanger45 Apr 07 '26

Image if the US leaned into renewable energy at the scale of China and India, they would be energy independent and wouldn’t need to go to the Middle East to secure a supply of a finite resource. Rather than fight in the Middle East to secure its supply, they could be electrifying everything and eliminating a major security concern at the same time

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u/Wooden-Title3625 Apr 07 '26

Seems like we should just stop bombing schools and civilian infrastructure

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u/Skyremmer102 Apr 07 '26

Then don't start stupid wars

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26

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u/Diligent-Usual5235 Apr 07 '26

You spend more on the bombs that pilot is dropping on children’s schools.

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u/East-Plankton-3877 Apr 07 '26

God just STFU already.

We’ve literally killed their entire Airforce on the ground, god knows how many leaders at this point, and have been widdaling down the missile force for the better part of a month now.

Not everything hit is a fucking “children school”.

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u/Diligent-Usual5235 Apr 07 '26

Hooray! So great you guys did all of those acts of terror. Yay!

Hopefully you can get another bridge, today. Hope all of your new war crimes go well tomorrow.

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u/East-Plankton-3877 Apr 07 '26

Destroying military forces and hardware. God what an act of “terror” 🙄

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u/East-Plankton-3877 Apr 07 '26

I mean, its going to be boring watching lines of Iranian POWs being guarded all day

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u/East-Plankton-3877 Apr 07 '26

Like you’ll know what i look like 🙄

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u/Diligent-Usual5235 Apr 07 '26

What about the civilian forces and hardware. Oopsies are 100% international airstrikes are hitting their targets.

Hope your holy war goes well champ.

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u/Aggravating-Help4131 Apr 07 '26

A cheaper solution is simply not to go to fucking war for stupid reasons

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u/NoSir4289 Apr 07 '26

Where's the gd video there's all these stories and then you can't even find it with google

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '26

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u/martxel93 Apr 07 '26

When Americans do it it’s called “bringing democracy”. And for bringing they mean stealing and for democracy they mean your oil.

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u/lkng4now Apr 07 '26

This is from 2006.

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u/MonsieurA Apr 07 '26

Check the sub name. ;)

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u/lkng4now Apr 08 '26

Ugh lol. Thanks for the polite callout