View Full Version : one billion reasons to keep to ourselves
Byte Stryke
02-17-2011, 13:23
Another billion reasons (http://www.armytimes.com/news/2011/02/ap-iraq-baghdad-city-wants-money-for-us-damage-021711/) we need to worry about ourselves instead of everyone else.
So essentially, they want us to pay them for protecting them while we put them in power.
[Eek3] Really?
Baghdad city officials seek $1B for war damage
The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Feb 17, 2011 11:00:11 EST
BAGHDAD — The Baghdad city government is demanding that the United States pay $1 billion and apologize for damage to the city caused by blast walls erected during the nearly eight-year long war.
In an official statement posted late Wednesday on its website, the local government says U.S. forces had marred the “beautiful city.”
It says the blast walls “put up at the pretext of security” damaged the sewage system and sidewalks, caused traffic jams and paralyzed business.
City officials want an official apology and $1 billion to pay for the damage.
Thousands of blast walls snake for miles across the capital, protecting buildings and military compounds and sealing off whole neighborhood
Another billion reasons (http://www.armytimes.com/news/2011/02/ap-iraq-baghdad-city-wants-money-for-us-damage-021711/) we need to worry about ourselves instead of everyone else.
So essentially, they want us to pay them for protecting them while we put them in power.
[Eek3] Really?
Remove them...with B-52s...from about 30000 feet...
ShooterJM
02-17-2011, 13:40
So. Let's do the math. A JDAM costs what, $18k or so? We could just pay em back with 55,500 of those or so.
Well we could send in our commander and chief apologizer but as for the money they are SOL unless they want to trade it for their oil rights.
Naw, we should always reach out to other countries so we can manipulate their government, then apologize, after we get our selves in deep shit.
Why take care of the homeland.
Troublco
02-17-2011, 14:21
Remove them...with B-52s...from about 30000 feet...
Offer to remove them this way, or let them remove them all by themselves at no cost to us. Either way, I'm good...
Byte Stryke
02-17-2011, 14:23
here is my thing.
we did put those in place, at the behest of the Iraqis, using Iraqi resources, and Iraqi Companies Using Iraqi Concrete funded by the U.S.
Thats makes them theirs in my book! :D
CrufflerSteve
02-17-2011, 14:34
Hey! It's the Pottery Barn method of foreign policy. We broke it - we bought it. Maybe we can sell Iraq on Craigslist. Under the free section.
Steve
At least on Ebay we may draw out Osama.
How about we bill them for all services rendered over the past 8 years....The cost of sending every troop there, every bullet used, every dime we paid to secure their freedom, every school/hospital/mosque/church/government building we built for them, every civilian worker there to improve their country, etc.... shall I continue or have I listed enough that we should never have to pay for oil again?
rockhound
02-17-2011, 21:50
let israel take em down for us, they probably will if the rest of the region doesn't start showing some respect.
nuke the place and see if they complain about the sewage system
theGinsue
02-17-2011, 23:05
^^^^ Oh, I really like that idea!
"Meesta, meesta, give me, give me!"
Yadda yadda, middle east!
Nuke 'em!
Byte Stryke
02-18-2011, 06:29
Hoosier,
Are you saying that our Beloved Sniper7 is predictable or are you saying that he has a narrow view on Middle-Eastern policy?
[LOL]
Molon_Labe-1775
02-18-2011, 08:16
Fuck'em.... level the place and charge them for land clearing services [Mad]
When I read the subject I wasnt sure if this was going to be about money or China
send an email to them with 1 billion "you're welcome" in it and call it even
personally... with the way things went and their inability to smell the sweet air of freedom... get the engineers in there with some combat dozers and push the wall in from all sides until they meet in the center
then let the animals everywhere else in the country kill each other
Hoosier,
Are you saying that our Beloved Sniper7 is predictable or are you saying that he has a narrow view on Middle-Eastern policy?
[LOL]
Just noticing a trend is all. I know I said similarly stupid stuff post 9/11 when I had an anger. However in retrospect, take a deep breathe, everything will be alright, let's not advocate killing a few million innocent people.
H.
Byte Stryke
02-18-2011, 11:26
Just noticing a trend is all. I know I said similarly stupid stuff post 9/11 when I had an anger. However in retrospect, take a deep breathe, everything will be alright, let's not advocate killing a few million innocent people.
H.
I Agree with you Hoosier.
Most of the People in that region I met are just everyday schmoes trying to farm enough to feed their families and sell a little to and keep clothes on the kids.
Then, just as in every region or religion, you have a few nutjobs that want to pervert ideologies or beliefs to their own ends.
I Agree with you Hoosier.
Most of the People in that region I met are just everyday schmoes trying to farm enough to feed their families and sell a little to and keep clothes on the kids.
Then, just as in every region or religion, you have a few nutjobs that want to pervert ideologies or beliefs to their own ends.
Pretty much sums up the human condition.
H.
Byte Stryke
02-18-2011, 13:43
Pretty much sums up the human condition.
H.
as intended my friend
Highlighting similarities to offset differences.
:D
Then, just as in every region or religion, you have a few nutjobs that want to pervert ideologies or beliefs to their own ends.
Why do so many of those "few nutjobs" end up in leadership/political positions?
I think it is a deeply ingrained psychological need to control their environment and be esteemed or feared by those around them.
I've often wondered why people in this country are willing to spend millions of dollars running for positions which pay about $200k per year. Congressman have to run every two years, so they are continually raising money and most Senators are in office for more than 20 years. It's crazy. Most politicians have more in common with high class hookers than they do with average citizens.
CrufflerSteve
02-18-2011, 16:29
I've often wondered why people in this country are willing to spend millions of dollars running for positions which pay about $200k per year. Congressman have to run every two years, so they are continually raising money and most Senators are in office for more than 20 years. It's crazy. Most politicians have more in common with high class hookers than they do with average citizens.
Politics has been called Showbiz for Ugly People. Fame, power, money (illegally in office, legally after). It must be a total rush to have power like that. I've met some CEO's of big companies and they really enjoy the power part.
Steve
Byte Stryke
02-18-2011, 16:45
Why do so many of those "few nutjobs" end up in leadership/political positions?
Sensible and moderate people rarely prostitute themselves or extort the weak to further their gains beyond their needs.
someone here once said Something like "when was the last time you saw a moderate go out and kill a family?"
Geology Rocks
02-18-2011, 23:23
we rebuilt germany after wwII and made them, for the time, more technologically advanced than us. we will probably do the same for iraq...:(
joe
Byte Stryke
02-18-2011, 23:33
we rebuilt germany after wwII and made them, for the time, more technologically advanced than us. we will probably do the same for iraq...:(
joe
They are STILL more technologically advanced than us
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs99/1999081.pdf
France has better math scores than we do
[Bang]
Just noticing a trend is all. I know I said similarly stupid stuff post 9/11 when I had an anger. However in retrospect, take a deep breathe, everything will be alright, let's not advocate killing a few million innocent people.
H.
meh...I have no problem with it. this shithole of the world, the birthplace of terrorism, the harboring of terrorists, thousands of years of fighting and battles. just a few tons of metal can end it all.
I said the same thing after 9/11 with anger, I say the same thing now, only 10 years later with a better understanding of who they are and what they are about.
Innocent people are killed every day, the liberals advocate for it with abortion, we fund it with our tax dollars.
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