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- Goodanswer, on 05/05/2008, -5/+71How 'bout we just give them back their country...
- wendelgee2, on 05/05/2008, -2/+43So this was their grand plan worth thousands of lives? To turn Iraq into New Jersey?
- cvelusc, on 05/05/2008, -4/+40What a waste of money. This whole area will eventually become a ghost town. How about revitalizing some of our ghost towns here in the US instead?
- fsjenkins2000, on 05/05/2008, -4/+39How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read if they can't even fit inside the building?
- Homerr, on 05/05/2008, -2/+27The insurgents are running out of things to fire mortars and rockets at?
- apathysucks, on 05/05/2008, -2/+25Sigh.
We can't protect the Green Zone, but maybe an Apple store can? - austin006, on 05/05/2008, -3/+26alright we could give 5000 schools $1,000,000 each
nah lets build ourselves an amusement park - uptown, on 05/05/2008, -1/+22What the *****? My tax dollars are being used to build a Denny's?
- rmxz, on 05/05/2008, -1/+20Sometimes I wonder if the entire goal of this operation is just an experiment to see how much money they can spend and how many people they can piss off (on all sides) and still get away with it.
- Ruger11mcrdpi, on 05/05/2008, -1/+20I don't even know what to say I'm so mad....
SPEND MONEY ON OUR OWN COUNTRY THATS FALLING APART AS WE SPEAK!!!
Chicago O hare airport is one of the busiest in the world, yet it has more delays and less on time arrivals and departures than any other US Airport. Atlanta, GA has only a couple months of reserve water before they run dry and almost 20 % of their water never gets to its destination, due to leaky pipes. There's a giant lake in Florida that's about to break its levee... we are still building Coal powerplants, our education system is in tatters, teachers are underpaid, medicare's going bankrupt... etc etc etc
Yeah let's build a stripmall and luxury hotel in Iraq. When I was there we always joked about how there'd be a wal-mart soon outside of Al-Asad, and it'd be another duty station just like Germany, or Japan, Guam, Rota Spain.... IDIOTS! - armoreddillo, on 05/05/2008, -2/+18This is a perfect example of "spreading democracy". *
we tear up the country.
section up the land and raw resources.
sell it off to international investors.
profit.
* see: Rape and Pillage - YodaJones, on 05/05/2008, -0/+14I cannot believe it's not the Onion....
- jdames1980, on 05/05/2008, -7/+20WTF!! It's the only think I can think to say.
- inajeep, on 05/05/2008, -1/+13The stores are lining up for this... caskets-r-us are jumping over themselves to get the corner store and
Body Armor by Armani is asking for a double store.
Bleh, I can't even maintain a joke about this. - DreKor, on 05/05/2008, -3/+13Why? Because we can't own Dubai.
- objectcode, on 05/05/2008, -6/+16***** them
- isaactwito, on 05/05/2008, -1/+11Oh sweet! The newest exclusive getaway. A private resort securely entrenched in the middle of an active combat zone!
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -3/+13While our country is falling apart let's spend money on luxury condos in Baghdad...Great Idea!! Better idea is to GET THE ***** OUT OF IRAQ!
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -1/+11It shall be called ....The Iraq Center For Children Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too...
- skierkegaard, on 05/05/2008, -1/+11It'll have to be at least... three times as big
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -7/+16BUCK FUSH.
- guitaristanyc, on 05/05/2008, -1/+9We care more about Baghdad than New Orleans, apparently.
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -0/+8Why is this even the pentagon's decision?
Shouldn't the iraqi people decide these things? - MWeather, on 05/05/2008, -0/+8ANWR? Let's see that's 4.3 to 11.8 billion barrels of oil. The world uses 84 million barrels a day. So that would last from 50-140 days.
Got any other brilliant ideas? - martoq, on 05/05/2008, -0/+8"Kill them all...take their land...and go there for vacation." -Rage Against the Machine
Ironic. - d1a1s1, on 05/05/2008, -1/+8"are selves" ?? Seriously?
- sny1120, on 05/05/2008, -0/+6there are 2 year old pot holes on my street
- LeeSoong, on 05/05/2008, -5/+11Brings new meaning to the old song:
" FALL IN TO THE GAP !" - Stroggoth, on 05/05/2008, -1/+7How about we spend that money building domestic oil supplies and refineries, and then head toward renewable energy?
NAH, on second thought, let's spend $300 per barrel on oil and keep Dubai looking like a megacity while we all ride mopeds to work. - KMartSheriff, on 05/05/2008, -3/+9You spelled ***** Bush wrong.
- d1a1s1, on 05/05/2008, -2/+8Whats amazing is that people are actually surprised by this. This is par for the course from BushCo
- Bilabrin, on 05/05/2008, -0/+6I hope they call it "New Isreal" :)
- fani, on 05/05/2008, -0/+5I wish they would use that money to help the people here.
Maybe help those Katrina victims or the thousands of other disaster victims. Its not like we're having in easy in America while they're suffering in Iraq. - Bilabrin, on 05/05/2008, -1/+6The caption said It's a five Billion dollar project. We could have rebuild New Orleans over 100 times over!
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -1/+6And both this Baghdad and New Orleans will be back in the same boat years down the road... You don't build cities in warzones or in soupbowls surrounded by water, I say.
- bicyclethief, on 05/05/2008, -1/+6Why does someone have to be a hippie communist to be pissed off at my tax-payer money going to rebuild some other country?
- krnldmp, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4If your home city isn't the federal government's responsibility, Baghdad ain't either. In reality it wont be happy until it controls it all.
- TexasShiv, on 05/05/2008, -1/+5BAHAHAHA. This is the most absurd thing I've ever heard
Just think for one second how this went down when it was proposed
"Okay... we're going to build a big mall..."
*grunts of approval from statesmen* - WCL23, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4The OGC should be in charge of this project. A serious organisation for a serious project!
- fokov, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4The reason Atlanta GA doesn't have water isn't over population, but that is a factor, is the federal government moving many, many gallons of water to make sure some endangered muscles survive in Florida. You know the state that is land locked and can't get its own water, wait you say its a peninsula, damn.
- Shots, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3How am I going to finance my other dream of selling Pork Chops at the Baghdad Mall?
- Garafraxa, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3This was all predicted by John Perkins in Confessions of an Economic Hitman.
"...And the contract goes to.... BECHTEL!" - mediaspree, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3What would you like the Federal Government to do?
- armoreddillo, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3whatever IS going on over there, it's not democracy.
i don't know how to fix what we've destroyed but i do have a suggestion.
it's called diplomacy.
look it up.
"Iraqi orphans make great terrorists" - stargatesteve, on 05/05/2008, -2/+5But see, they want us out. The last thing they want is us doing any more damage.
- mfc5200, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3Didn't they do this during the Vietnam War? They built a luxury 5-star hotel in North Vietnam called the Hanoi Hilton.
/sarc.
What is wrong with this world. - Shots, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3Better profit-margins in developing countries... and if you can't find your own developing country, invade an ancient civilization and start developing!
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -1/+4obviously this is some sort of dress rehearsal to see if the idea of an oasis of the filthy rich can survive in such an environment, since this will be the US in 20 years.
- crushtheenemy, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3great idea...
- bicyclethief, on 05/05/2008, -1/+4Yeah, of course, this is all the Dems fault.
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