Is Iraq Any Better Now vs With Saddam?

[Flymph]

Unless there was something we wanted, but then we should have took it.

Well, Halliburton did get the contracts to rebuild the place...

 

[No_Regerts]

Well, Halliburton did get the contracts to rebuild the place...

See, selling force was a lot easier when its purpose was to boost our economy building F16s and C130s as fast as we could. Now that its privatized....

 

[Flymph]

See, selling force was a lot easier when its purpose was to boost our economy building F16s and C130s as fast as we could. Now that its privatized....

I guess we should have sold them more SAM's back in the day...

 

[Ruger Rich]

It sucks either way. Difficult question to answer as the primary sources of information available to me (TV news, newspapers, etc.) are biased and I feel lack objective journalistic reporting spine.

 

[No_Regerts]

I guess we should have sold them more SAM's back in the day...

If the Israelis had fought the Iranians in the 80s, it would have been an all-American Made affair! Israeli F15s and F16s vs Iranian F14s.

 

[No_Regerts]

It sucks either way. Difficult question to answer as the primary sources of information available to me (TV news, newspapers, etc.) are biased and I feel lack objective journalistic reporting spine.

My dad always talked about how he believed every word Cronkite said until he went to Vietnam and saw for himself. He hasn't trusted the MSM since.

 

[albin25]

Never changes.
Same sh1t ....
.... just changed to different a55holes.

 

[Stomper]

It is written, that the children of Ishmael shall be a perpetual torment and a bleeding thorn to the people of the world

 

[Ura-Ki]

Well, Halliburton did get the contracts to rebuild the place...

Not Just them, Black Water ( even bigger) got in on some major "Rebuilding" which got blown way bigger when their 4 "Operators" got killed, burned, and dismembered and hung on the bridge for the whole world to see!

 

[Ura-Ki]

Y'all know who owns Halliburton right?

 

[Member 5605]

Y'all know who owns Halliburton right?

Shareholders....

 

[bbbass]

Are you f'n kidding?
Mao Zedong - Wikipedia

I don't know about Manny, but I certainly was f'n kidding. No f'n chit man! It was an f'n play on the f'n misspelling of the f'n name, and my f'n dislike of a particular f'n actor.

 

[Ura-Ki]

Shareholders....

One Dick Cheney, One Prescott Bush, and One Donald Rumsfeld!
Under those most honorable citizens, there have been numerous others from past Presidential staff as well as a number of Senators and other politicians, and at least one former Director of the F.B.I.

 

[bbbass]

One Dick Cheney, One Prescott Bush, and One Donald Rumsfeld!
Under those most honorable citizens, there have been numerous others from past Presidential staff as well as a number of Senators and other politicians, and at least one former Director of the F.B.I.

Those people worked for Halliburton as Chairman, CEO, etc. It's a CORPORATION, the original shares owned, oddly enough, by a guy named Halliburton. "In 1924, the company was incorporated in Delaware, with 56 people on its payroll. The stock of the corporation was owned by Erle and Vida Halliburton and by seven major oil companies: Magnolia, Texas, Gulf, Humble, Sun, Pure and Atlantic."

Whether one liked the eventual mega-corp operations or not, the largest current shareholder is the Vanguard Group... which means ME. Me, myself, I. Yeah, I know, the Vanguard Group sucks too, but they make me a lot of money, more than any other holding I have since I sold my American Mutual Fund shares that were invested so heavily in tobacco products. So sue me.

But unless you can provide links that show ownership of Halliburton by Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, yer blowin smoke!!!

 

[Ura-Ki]

I should have said " RUNS" it!

 

[bbbass]

I should have said " RUNS" it!

Yah, they used to.... a lot of shady deals and suspicious activities in the corporations long history! Kinda like Burisma, only bigger!

 

[bbbass]

BTW... did France ever send us a thank you note? Or even a pack of crummy smokes? Some wine, or covfefe??? ... I'll wait...

I not on the side of things that says we should appropriate what we want when we go to help out another country, and I can't think of anything French that is worth having. We have better wine and women...

 

[Ruger Rich]

My dad always talked about how he believed every word Cronkite said until he went to Vietnam and saw for himself. He hasn't trusted the MSM since.

Thank you, and FYI, it also changed me dramatically

 

[Ruger Rich]

BTW... did France ever send us a thank you note? Or even a pack of crummy smokes? Some wine, or covfefe??? ... I'll wait...

I not on the side of things that says we should appropriate what we want when we go to help out another country, and I can't think of anything French that is worth having. We have better wine and women...

Agree we have better wine and women but.....they did give us a hand when we were young, though greatly self interested.

 

[clearconscience]

That part of the world will always live in
stone ages.
A culture and people who never evolved from an age when the world was a more brutal and simple.