Comments on: LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT IRAQ http://rightvoices.com/2006/03/14/lets-take-a-look-at-iraq/ in all matter of opinion, our adversaries are insane. Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:43:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: FrmrArtyOffcr http://rightvoices.com/2006/03/14/lets-take-a-look-at-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-219418 FrmrArtyOffcr Sat, 18 Mar 2006 06:06:07 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/2006/03/14/lets-take-a-look-at-iraq/#comment-219418 Chuck I do like your analogy unfortunately it's flawed. Have you ever seen the movie "Sneakers"? In it Ben Kingsley's character tells Robert Redford's character about how perception effects reality. His example is that if you tell enough people long enough that a bank is financially shaky, enough people will withdraw their money that it will become shaky. This is essentially what caused the banking collapse that lead to the Great Depression. Even banks that would've otherwise been sound were forced into insolvency by the panicking depositors. Investors rarely want to invest in a country that has a substandard infrastructure, a history of graft, and has guerrillas running amok. Lack of foreign capital resulting from the years of corruption and the oil for food program has caused the dinar to drop. Thank you for the currency exchange information. I may have to invest in Iraqi Dinars. $1000 U.S. dollars spent on dinars and allowed to sit there until after the terrorists are quelled and the Iraqi oil starts flowing freely again, should net me at least million US Dollars. Sounds like a good investment to me. The absolute BEST indication of what's going on there is the reenlistment rates. Soldiers do not have to reenlist. If the situation was as bad as the main stream media is portraying it, the reenlistment rate wouldn't be the highest in history. Nor would the desertion rate be the lowest despite the media reports to the contrary. The truth is desertions are down from the rates before the war. Modern soldiers are neither conscripts nor ill educated idiots (unless you count the poor quality of the liberal run schools.) You simply can't get into the military if you don't have at least a GED. Convicted felons are almost always told thanks but no thanks. (There are exceptions for people who made dumb mistakes but it almost takes an act of God to get a waiver.) We haven't had a draft in over 30 years. The people who serve in our military are there because they WANT to be there. Too bad John Murtha doesn't have the gumption to get up off his ass and fly over there before making comments about the troops. It amazes me that while Joe Lieberman who has been there multiple times can say one thing about the situation and have his credibility challenged and Murtha who hasn't been there at all says another thing and is immediately an expert. Murtha hasn't seen a war zone since BEFORE Operation Desert Storm. Even the people who have fought in both say this one is so different that it hardly seems the same place. Chuck I do like your analogy unfortunately it’s flawed. Have you ever seen the movie “Sneakers”? In it Ben Kingsley’s character tells Robert Redford’s character about how perception effects reality. His example is that if you tell enough people long enough that a bank is financially shaky, enough people will withdraw their money that it will become shaky. This is essentially what caused the banking collapse that lead to the Great Depression. Even banks that would’ve otherwise been sound were forced into insolvency by the panicking depositors. Investors rarely want to invest in a country that has a substandard infrastructure, a history of graft, and has guerrillas running amok. Lack of foreign capital resulting from the years of corruption and the oil for food program has caused the dinar to drop. Thank you for the currency exchange information. I may have to invest in Iraqi Dinars. $1000 U.S. dollars spent on dinars and allowed to sit there until after the terrorists are quelled and the Iraqi oil starts flowing freely again, should net me at least million US Dollars. Sounds like a good investment to me.

The absolute BEST indication of what’s going on there is the reenlistment rates. Soldiers do not have to reenlist. If the situation was as bad as the main stream media is portraying it, the reenlistment rate wouldn’t be the highest in history. Nor would the desertion rate be the lowest despite the media reports to the contrary. The truth is desertions are down from the rates before the war. Modern soldiers are neither conscripts nor ill educated idiots (unless you count the poor quality of the liberal run schools.) You simply can’t get into the military if you don’t have at least a GED. Convicted felons are almost always told thanks but no thanks. (There are exceptions for people who made dumb mistakes but it almost takes an act of God to get a waiver.) We haven’t had a draft in over 30 years. The people who serve in our military are there because they WANT to be there. Too bad John Murtha doesn’t have the gumption to get up off his ass and fly over there before making comments about the troops. It amazes me that while Joe Lieberman who has been there multiple times can say one thing about the situation and have his credibility challenged and Murtha who hasn’t been there at all says another thing and is immediately an expert. Murtha hasn’t seen a war zone since BEFORE Operation Desert Storm. Even the people who have fought in both say this one is so different that it hardly seems the same place.

]]> By: Chuck Wolber http://rightvoices.com/2006/03/14/lets-take-a-look-at-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-219304 Chuck Wolber Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:31:13 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/2006/03/14/lets-take-a-look-at-iraq/#comment-219304 A good indicator is to watch the value of the Iraqi Dinar as compared to the American dollar. Exchange rate is a decent indication of the economic viability of a country. The value of the Iraqi Dinar has slowly been falling in value for the last three years. Based on that reality, I trust what I'm seeing in the "liberal media". If the value of the Dinar was going up, and the news kept reporting failures, I'd know that something was fishy. ..Chuck.. P.S. Shortly before the first Gulf war, an Iraqi Dinar was worth about $3.20(US). As of today, it takes 1476 Iraqi Dinars to equal one US dollar. For about $700, you too can be an Iraqi millionaire. If the value goes back up to pre-Gulf war levels, you'll be worth $3.2 million dollars (US). A good indicator is to watch the value of the Iraqi Dinar as compared to the American dollar. Exchange rate is a decent indication of the economic viability of a country. The value of the Iraqi Dinar has slowly been falling in value for the last three years. Based on that reality, I trust what I’m seeing in the “liberal media”. If the value of the Dinar was going up, and the news kept reporting failures, I’d know that something was fishy.

..Chuck..

P.S. Shortly before the first Gulf war, an Iraqi Dinar was worth about $3.20(US). As of today, it takes 1476 Iraqi Dinars to equal one US dollar. For about $700, you too can be an Iraqi millionaire. If the value goes back up to pre-Gulf war levels, you’ll be worth $3.2 million dollars (US).

]]> By: Fred Dawes http://rightvoices.com/2006/03/14/lets-take-a-look-at-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-219264 Fred Dawes Wed, 15 Mar 2006 02:09:42 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/2006/03/14/lets-take-a-look-at-iraq/#comment-219264 by the way, if you think by killing your enemies is evil think on this, what if bin laden wins this war, what do you think will happen to you? and understand one fact I HATE BUSH:roll: But i don't want his job, with people that live in this non nation of total fools:sad: To:bin laden, if i was running this game you and all your people would be dead, do you understand little brown brother:?: And your low life people should be thinking god for bush and business, if you know what i mean. beat your enemy down and keep him in hell. Rome Empire 1st century A.D It worked real well in that part of the world:oops: by the way, if you think by killing your enemies is evil think on this, what if bin laden wins this war, what do you think will happen to you? and understand one fact I HATE BUSH:roll: But i don’t want his job, with people that live in this non nation of total fools:sad:

To:bin laden, if i was running this game you and all your people would be dead, do you understand little brown brother:?: And your low life people should be thinking god for bush and business, if you know what i mean.

beat your enemy down and keep him in hell. Rome Empire 1st century A.D It worked real well in that part of the world:oops:

]]> By: Fred Dawes http://rightvoices.com/2006/03/14/lets-take-a-look-at-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-219260 Fred Dawes Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:41:16 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/2006/03/14/lets-take-a-look-at-iraq/#comment-219260 :twisted:Just kill the pigs and win the war, stop with all the bull. don't look, "do and, do it right", "the old way", you know like world war two, one u.s. troop dead 500 enemies of freedom dead, do it right and the Muslim will never attack us, do it wrong, and you are dead. fight or die, what do you want:?: :twisted: Just kill the pigs and win the war, stop with all the bull.

don’t look, “do and, do it right”, “the old way”, you know like world war two, one u.s. troop dead 500 enemies of freedom dead, do it right and the Muslim will never attack us, do it wrong, and you are dead. fight or die, what do you want:?:

]]> By: snowy egret http://rightvoices.com/2006/03/14/lets-take-a-look-at-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-219243 snowy egret Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:26:06 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/2006/03/14/lets-take-a-look-at-iraq/#comment-219243 The liberal left-wing news meia are only interested in selling their wretched paers and magazines after all IF IT BLEEDS IT LEADS:mad: The liberal left-wing news meia are only interested in selling their wretched paers and magazines after all IF IT BLEEDS IT LEADS:mad:

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