Bruce, you're right. I apologise. Non Americans have no right to discuss America and its policies. The US economy doesn't affect any other country.
On 15 March 2013 18:43, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:361867 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
