What I enjoy is people from countries where we have poured millions of dollars into and countless man-hours in training their military and doing joint exercises with are so concerned about how we spend our money in other countries. What have we gained from Trinidad? Nikki Manaj? Heh. they can have her back.
How much we spent in Iraq is no secret or surprise. Tim and I can see why that is so. The cost of keeping a super FOB operational on a daily basis, the exorbitant amount of money we pay civilians working there, and the vast amounts of American dollars that were literally handed over to Iraqi contractors was enormous, and I am surprised that it only cost 2 trillion. I would have expected it to be higher. Once a week I would see Iraqi contractors come into the base with empty backpacks and briefcases, and they would come out stuffed with money. The AF chick that had to escort them to and from the disbursement center would tell me exactly how much each contractor had in their bag or briefcase. It was in the hundreds of thousands ,and millions of dollars in some cases. It made me sick to see these backwards ass pieces of whale shit walking out with so much money. I wanted to kill every one of them. I used to make elaborate plans in my head on how to get my hands on that money and kill the fuckers that we paid to get it. Alas cooler heads prevailed and nothing happened other than them getting richer. Whatever. Take Nikki Manaj back, please. Bruce On Mar 15, 2013, at 6:25 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > "US spent 2 trillion on Iraq war." > > Ehhh. I think too much is made up about how much was spent. > > The more concerning issue is how was it paid for. > > J > > - > > What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man > has tried to make it his heaven. - Friedrich Höderlin > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:361861 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
