Treasuregate - Is the War in Iraq over buried treasure?

ck4829

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Tue Jan-30-07 11:51 AM
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Treasuregate - Is the War in Iraq over buried treasure?

Edited on Tue Jan-30-07 11:56 AM by ck4829

You might think I'm joking, but I'm not.

In 2001, Manucher Ghorbanifar (Arms dealer and Iran-Contra figure) told Bush Administration Henchmen, Harold Rhode and Larry Franklin, that Saddam Hussein has $340 million in cash hidden away somewhere inside Iran. Did they believe this? I guess we'll have to ask them to find out, but we did invade Iraq though and we're thinking of invading Iran. Also, the cause of this invasion was never truthfully told to us. Something to consider I guess.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3706341&p1=0

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stillcool

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Tue Jan-30-07 11:56 AM
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1. $340 million is nothing...

the buried oil treasure...that's the prize.

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ck4829

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Tue Jan-30-07 11:58 AM
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4. That's what I thought too

But, this is 1/3 of a billion dollars, and secretly stealing it would make a small group of Neocon Oligarchs very happy.

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stillcool

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Tue Jan-30-07 01:00 PM
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7. check this out..

Fifteen billion dollars ... This pile of money is 60 feet high, 150 feet long, and 62� feet deep.
This is the amount of money that the US Army has paid to Halliburton (a company once led by Vice President Dick Cheney) since late 2001 in no-bid contracts to perform services such as delivering food and fuel and constructing housing for U.S. Troops around the world, and has been persistently dogged with allegations for fraud, poor quality, overpricing, and other abuses. (On July 13, 2006, the US Army announced that it would end its dealings with the company.)
source: The Toledo Blade

Three-hundred-fifteen billion dollars ...
Update : July 21, 2006
This is the amount of money the US has allocated for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to be spent by September 30, 2006, the end of the fiscal year. And the Senate is working on a spending bill that will add another $50 billion more in spending for 2007.

This pile is 125 feet wide, 200 feet deep, and 450 feet tall.

450 feet is the height of a 38-story building. It's the hieght of the Millenium Wheel in London. It is also the height of the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas and the Louisiana State Capitol Building.

If you were to stack the money in a single stack, your stack would be 19,887 miles tall, enough to wrap the Moon at its equator almost 3 times.
http://www.crunchweb.net/87billion/index.htm

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yellerpup

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Tue Jan-30-07 11:57 AM
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2. Wars are never about anything else.

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jsamuel

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Tue Jan-30-07 11:57 AM
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3. ??? Spend 500 Billion to find 340 Million? Only Bush would take that business venture.

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ck4829

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Tue Jan-30-07 12:08 PM
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6. You've got to remember

Edited on Tue Jan-30-07 12:09 PM by ck4829

He's spending all of OUR money to get money that he can put into HIS pockets. I doubt he and the Neocons will share the treasure with the rest of the nation.

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Tue Jan-30-07 11:58 AM
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5. Oil is buried!

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