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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-04 11:20 PM
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US Marines offer to help repair Iraq mosques
US Marines have offered to help repair and improve mosques in western Iraq, where US forces destroyed a minaret in Falluja this week because they said it was being used by guerrillas fighting against them.

The Marines made the offer during a meeting with 51 imams and the governor of al-Anbar province, which includes Falluja, where U.S. Marines on Monday destroyed a minaret they say was being used by insurgents.

"The mosque repair proposal would consist of funding $1,200 worth of projects for each mosque, employing about 10 people per project slated to last about two weeks," a statement issued by the Marines late on Friday said.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_725100,00050004.htm
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KissMyAsscroft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-04 11:24 PM
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1. Wow, that really brings a tear to my eye.
:eyes:
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-04 11:35 PM
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2. Another Halliburton contract?
More US taxpayer dollars to line the pockets of Kellog, Brown
and Root?
OOPS, we got caught torturing Iraqi civilians, so we'll
rebuild a mosque and bill the American citizens to make nice
for the atrocities commited in their names?
PERRRRfect.
BHN
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daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-04 11:36 PM
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3. Any old mosques?
Or just mosques they blew up?
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-04 11:37 PM
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4. Finally,...repair/rebuild/replace,...
,...I know there are those who genuinely seek to help and assist others. I both acknowledge and salute every single one of those individuals.
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homelandpunk Donating Member (787 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-04 11:46 PM
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5. How inappropriate. Muslims do not want christian invaders TOUCHING
their mosques!!!!!!
How freakin stupid and arrogant and ignorant.
Just go home. How about that?
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-04 11:49 PM
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6. Exactly, they want all Americans out of their country!
It is nothing but an empty gesture on our part.
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ConcernedCanuk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-04 11:56 PM
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7. "$1,200 worth of projects for each mosque" - well, whoopdeefeckingdoo
.
.
.

10 people, 2 weeks work, lets see - if they do 40 hr weeks,

10 people at 40 hrs = 400 hours, x2 = 800 hours

That's a whole 3 bucks an hour,

well,

minus whatever materials they may need

whoopdeefeckingdoo
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cornfedyank Donating Member (642 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:47 AM
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11. hire everyone in the country.
a soldier was only making $60/month. right?

$2/hour x 40hours/week x 50weeks/year x 23,000,000iraqis = $92 billion/year.

hire them all. put the green in their hand.

then the hotheads can have a job and can get married and can get laid.

wage peace----dabble at war.
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:59 AM
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12. SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - OUTSOURCE THE WAR
to IRAQIS!

peace
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 03:08 AM
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13. Well, at least we know they'll be using Iraqi labor.
Pathetic. We'll repair it and everything will be fine.

Insane, even.
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ConcernedCanuk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 12:08 AM
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8. another thought - $1200 for a mosque, how much for a dead Iraqi?
.
.
.

What's an average life ins. policy payout in Murikka -

1 million for accidental maybe ?

Around 20,000 dead Iraqis at the hands of the Murikkans

That's just 20 billion,

1/5th of what they've spent to blow the place up so far

Then there's all that infrastructure they blew up

And the ongoing illness and death from all the Depleted Uranium they've spread around.

I'd say that conservatively the US should be paying around 100 Billion in reparations.

Maybe a whole lot more.
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Rebel_with_a_cause Donating Member (933 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 12:52 AM
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9. Three days ago headlines read, "Marines growing impatient"
Are the marines as schizoid as the army is SM?
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 01:02 AM
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10. Too bad we can't plaster up those 600 casualties
and make everything even-steven
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huellewig Donating Member (700 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 04:33 AM
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14. What a great way..
to get blueprints of the shit you plan on invading next week. 1,200 bucks, thanks for the new shoe rack. Give them the money and let them rebuild the damn thing. I have a damn desk job and I could rebuild a blown-up wall. I'm sure the average Iraqi has more construction experience then our troops. Just another way to siphon our cash to the Bush supporters.

And what I mean by that. Once the 1,200 goes through yadda, yadda one hundred will reach the troops to spend on the projects. I hope that made sense.
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 04:41 AM
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15. "My brother has this excellent set of tools." eom
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