Posted on 11/30/2014 4:06:02 PM PST by Steelfish
Edited on 11/30/2014 4:42:56 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
I suspect the money that was supposed to be paid to these 50,000 Iraqi troops (if they ever existed) was always intended to end up in the pockets of Iraqi tribal leaders and U.S. defense contractors anyway.
did they register their addresses as anywhere in Illinois???
Read Smedley Butler.
War is a Racket.
Get OUR money CONgre$$.
Active Duty ping.
So Iraq was a hoax?
No, Saddam Hussein and his arsenal of who knows what was a threat, we eliminated him and again, the politicians screwed up the military's mission.
Your premises are a hoax! Wise up.
Probably some sort of contamination with Petraeus’s scheme of buying off Sunni tribesmen in the west and north so they would resist the incipient AlQaeda in Iraq......
We weren’t “suckered into” Vietnam; we were suckered into paying non-existent ARVN troops.
The Iraq War was a complete hoax; I remember arming Saddam to the teeth in the 1980s when we needed an ally against Iran, and he was a moderate compared to the Muslim crazies there. We killed a lot of people there, and left those remaining much worse off then before. Not a single Iraqi was involved in 9/11 (though 15 Saudis - our “allies” - were); they were a stable oasis in the land of nuts.
ISIS wins battles because we killed the Iraqis who had resisted militant Islam for so long...
They have been doing it since the 17th Century. That is the original point of an inspection by a higher officer. Forming troops into a formation, having them perform the manual of arms, then inspecting them to make certain their kit is complete, used to be a vital part of maintaining the British Army. In the days before centralized bureaucracies kept track of everything there was no effective way to tell if Col. Blimp, commander of the Tidmarsh Grenadiers, who was receiving money for pay, food, and equipment for 500 men, really had 500 men, except by showing up and personally verifying their number and equipment. It was expected that a few of the men in the formation were actually stable boys, suttlers, or other hangers on, but inspections kept the level of corruption down.
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