[Machette]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/20 ... 572930.htm

Reminds me of that 60 minutes piece last week which stated $8 billion was unaccounted for in Iraq, most of it going to contracters who didn't do their jobs.

[Machette]

And no one cares about this issue?

[[DAS REICH] Blitz]

Originally Posted by Machette

And no one cares about this issue?

apparently not.

[Johnj]

I, for one, am totaly burned out on the subject. I mean I get it. America is evil. Don't worry we'll be a thrid world country in about twenty year, the way things are going.

[Machette]

Yes, exactly as I stated... rolleyes:

Is it me or being a crtic for something like the Iraq War immediately makes one seem anti-American?...pull yourself together for crying out loud. I expect some maturity especially from a man who is the oldest person on this board. Give a proper response, not some rhetoric that wasn't even stated in my post. Dodging the issue is what cowards do.

[Johnj]

Maybe it's that I've seen this shit during every conflict that has happened during my life, that keeps me from getting excited about it. You act like you didn't expect both sides to lie through their teeth to try to make their side look good and the other side to look bad. Read the article you posted again. Someone is complaining that numbers don't add up. The other side is saying yes the numbers do add up, but the other side is destroying our progress as fast as we make it.

Both sides (that is the people that cause the war to continue) are equally evil, and both sides (that is the people that actually do the fighting and dying) are equally good.

Nobody has a moral highground in this conflict.


wallbash:

i need to find that GIF of machette masturbating.

[Machette]

Originally Posted by Johnj

Maybe it's that I've seen this shit during every conflict that has happened during my life, that keeps me from getting excited about it. You act like you didn't expect both sides to lie through their teeth to try to make their side look good and the other side to look bad. Read the article you posted again. Someone is complaining that numbers don't add up. The other side is saying yes the numbers do add up, but the other side is destroying our progress as fast as we make it.

Both sides (that is the people that cause the war to continue) are equally evil, and both sides (that is the people that actually do the fighting and dying) are equally good.

Nobody has a moral highground in this conflict.


wallbash:

Well if you keep seeing this, does it not bother you in any way?

Also Acideyez, if you have nothing to say that is of value to the thread don't post in it.

[Johnj]

Weather it bothers me or not, is inmaterial. What can I do about it. Oh I guess I could be a bitter old hippy, you know, the kind of guy that gets all the derision around here. Or I could start posting every story I could find that backs up which ever side I like. Or I could go on with life. Or I could go get another beer. Or I could go smoke another joint [size=7]I could change the cd and play some Pink Floyd. I could get a bowl of ice cream. I don't know I think I'll go out and find some pussy.

[Pyro]

Obviouslly this was gonna happen. $$ is all they wanted.

[elstatec]

Originally Posted by Machette

Dodging the issue is what cowards do.

....or those who are in power do.

[Eight Ace]

Originally Posted by elstatec

....or those who are in power do.

ffs..get a room fgts.. annoy:

[Machette]

rolleyes:

[Machette]

Rather than build a new thread...


http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/060 ... struct.pdf

Interesting what they say about the recounstruction process.