WTF??? We are paying Iraqis not to shoot at us????

CatWoman

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Fri Jan-11-08 11:40 PM
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WTF??? We are paying Iraqis not to shoot at us????

what kind of fucked up "war" is this??????

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Kutjara

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Fri Jan-11-08 11:43 PM
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1. Just when you think things can't get any more absurd...

...they go right through the looking-glass. As if international respect for our military isn't low enough, now we're paying protection money.

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aquart

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Fri Jan-11-08 11:57 PM
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3. Well, I feel humiliated.

I can't help but feel this is a good moment to leave.

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Fri Jan-11-08 11:57 PM
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2. Where'd you hear this?

It sounds dumb enough to come straight from the White House. They trying to make the Surge work or what?

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CatWoman

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Fri Jan-11-08 11:58 PM
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4. just now on Real Time

Bill Maher hit Tony Snow with it, and Snow confirmed it.

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Bigmack

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Sat Jan-12-08 12:00 AM
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5. Should have done this in 2003...

Pay off everybody in Iraq and BUY the damned oil.

Would have been a LOT cheaper!

Shit... we could have shoveled money out of B-52s and C-130s over the country and it would have been cheaper.

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kentuck

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Sat Jan-12-08 12:00 AM
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6. Some of us knew this months ago...

We are bribing the Sunnis with the supplementals..

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Booster

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Sat Jan-12-08 01:13 AM
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7. Yeah, but he said it was only $10 a day each - Hell, that's cheap.

:sarcasm:

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genie_weenie

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Sat Jan-12-08 01:41 AM
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8. Of course, this is the key "success" of the Anbar awakening

Paying the sheihks to placate their people, the anbar sheihks become wealthly and powerful and keep their tribes in poverty and under control. That way when an Iraqi kills a foreign fighter or another Iraqi we can conquer by pitting them against each other.

The problem will be when the Iraqis in Anbar succeed and decide to tackle US or the Mahdi Army or the Kurds...

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BadgerLaw2010

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Sat Jan-12-08 06:44 AM
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9. Ancient Middle Eastern warfare technique.

Edited on Sat Jan-12-08 06:44 AM by BadgerLaw2010

When they start shooting at you again, it means they want to renegotiate.

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