So when we leave Iraq..........

Scrum · 08-18-2006, 01:25 AM

Would it be bad form to say:

"Here's your bill. This is what it cost to liberate you and keep you safe while you got your shit together. Don't have this kind of money? We can take payments in oil. Just think of how much better you are without Saddam. Thank you, have a nice day"?

lew · 08-18-2006, 01:32 AM

thomez · 08-18-2006, 01:32 AM

I don't believe we paid France for expenditures in our Revolution.

Just repaid money borrowed.

IminWonderland · 08-18-2006, 02:47 AM

If I were Iraq, I would say....

"But I didn't ask you to come here?"

7960 · 08-18-2006, 03:08 AM

I'd say it's worth it just to hear france bitch about their billions in lost illegal investments in iraqi oil.

DosEquis · 08-18-2006, 03:10 AM

I am dos equis and i approve this message

Kytro · 08-18-2006, 03:11 AM

LoL @ "protection money"

DosEquis · 08-18-2006, 03:34 AM

oh and wtf you mean when. We are NEVER leaving that place. we have setup 14 fucking bases. We do not bring troops home as part of an exit strategy because THERE IS NO EXIT STRATEGY.

Why We Fight... on dvd... i have a shit ton and can burn a shit ton more. Lets spread it around the LL and the world.

avsp · 08-18-2006, 06:51 AM

Perhaps OPEC might restrict production so that Iraqs remaining reconstruction bill can be levied on the West (ok, rest of the world).

Unlikey to happen, probably wouldnt work anyway, ..., but etc

Scrum · 08-18-2006, 08:53 AM

Originally Posted by thomez

I don't believe we paid France for expenditures in our Revolution.

Just repaid money borrowed.

But France only assisted us in our revolution, they didn't do it for us.

WickedLou9 · 08-18-2006, 09:40 AM

So wait. we went in there and fucked up thier country and then you think we should bill them for repairs?

Scrum · 08-18-2006, 09:43 AM

Originally Posted by WickedLou9

So wait. we went in there and fucked up thier country and then you think we should bill them for repairs?

Freedom isn't free.

thomez · 08-18-2006, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by Scrumtralecent

But France only assisted us in our revolution, they didn't do it for us.

In Iraq, that was our choice, not theirs.

Nonphixion · 08-18-2006, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by DosEquis

oh and wtf you mean when. We are NEVER leaving that place. we have setup 14 fucking bases. We do not bring troops home as part of an exit strategy because THERE IS NO EXIT STRATEGY.

Why We Fight... on dvd... i have a shit ton and can burn a shit ton more. Lets spread it around the LL and the world.

I have it here DosEquis my friend

Index of /BBC4

Diesel66 · 08-18-2006, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by DosEquis

oh and wtf you mean when. We are NEVER leaving that place. we have setup 14 fucking bases. We do not bring troops home as part of an exit strategy because THERE IS NO EXIT STRATEGY.

Why We Fight... on dvd... i have a shit ton and can burn a shit ton more. Lets spread it around the LL and the world.

just like we never left Germany, Japan or Korea ?

Publius · 08-18-2006, 04:29 PM

Originally Posted by Diesel66

just like we never left Germany, Japan or Korea ?

We haven't.

motivez · 08-18-2006, 06:11 PM

I think it was a huge mistake not making a bigger effort to bring in the international community when it comes to the costs, but I guess when the whole world thinks you're a fuckup and what you're doing is wrong, they're not going to be too eager to help shoulder the cost of said fuckup.

It might be bad taste, but we've spent far too much for what was promised to us as a short "get in, get out" war that we were told would last "I doubt 6 months"

Ardentfrost · 08-18-2006, 06:12 PM

Originally Posted by Scrumtralecent

Freedom isn't free.

"Freedom costs a buck-oh-five"