Billions Missing from new "Iraqi Fund"

[Argyll]

Interesting article......I'm sure many more of these will surface!

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-12857088,00.html

[Mortimer]

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I heard Jack has a new swimming pool and nice shiny gun rack.....hmmmm. :lol:

[Mortimer]

rofl

[ibstolidude]

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Although I'm sure you are very proud of the humor of your post....

the reality is that the people in both Afghanistan (constantly) and Iraq (often) ask when will the US business get here?

In reality probably the best thing that could happen is foreign businesss mving into those regions to crete jobs, economy base, tax base.

[Seoulstriker]

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there was a political cartoon a while back that portrayed the Jews today much like the Jews in political cartoons from the 1930s.

[Deuterium]

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You are too late. The Northern Iraqi town of As Sulaymaniyah has had a Madonals for years. Thanks to the protection afforded them by Operation NORTHERN WATCH, Kurds have grabbed democracy and capatilism and ran with it. Some Kurdish entrepeneur, not some multinational corporation, put his money on the line and started a thriving business.

[Seoulstriker]

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You are too late. The Northern Iraqi town of As Sulaymaniyah has had a Madonals for years. Thanks to the protection afforded them by Operation NORTHERN WATCH, Kurds have grabbed democracy and capatilism and ran with it. Some Kurdish entrepeneur, not some multinational corporation, put his money on the line and started a thriving business.

McDonalds is a franchise? i thought it was a chain. oh well. :)

[Deuterium]

I'm at work right now I'll post picture of the TWO Madonals in As Sulaymaniyah after I get home.

[pinkeye]

I'm at work right now I'll post picture of the TWO Madonals in As Sulaymaniyah after I get home.

just what the kurds need... with mcdonalds' popping up left and right, the waistline in that part of the world will increase to ghastly american proportions...

[budanski]

Iraq's First Burger King (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A46700-2003Oct18?language=printer)

[Deuterium]

I'm at work right now I'll post picture of the TWO Madonals in As Sulaymaniyah after I get home.

just what the kurds need... with mcdonalds' popping up left and right, the waistline in that part of the world will increase to ghastly american proportions...

Apparantly you have never been to the middle east. They do quite well getting fat on skateboard bread, chicken, rice, pistachios, chocolate, and lamb. Show me a skinny Muslim woman over 30.

[pinkeye]

I'm at work right now I'll post picture of the TWO Madonals in As Sulaymaniyah after I get home.

just what the kurds need... with mcdonalds' popping up left and right, the waistline in that part of the world will increase to ghastly american proportions...

Apparantly you have never been to the middle east. They do quite well getting fat on skateboard bread, chicken, rice, pistachios, chocolate, and lamb. Show me a skinny Muslim woman over 30.

well, correct me if i a am wrong but giving birth to many children usually causes many women to put on a few lbs. muslim countries have some of the highest birth rates. hmmmm, funny should you omit to mention the men. of course there are obese arabs, but certainly not as many as their american male counterparts.

[Beowulf]

of course there are obese arabs, but certainly not as many as their american male counterparts.

prove it.

[IDFM203]

I'm at work right now I'll post picture of the TWO Madonals in As Sulaymaniyah after I get home.

just what the kurds need... with mcdonalds' popping up left and right, the waistline in that part of the world will increase to ghastly american proportions...So what you’re not for free choice here?!?

No ones force feeding mc Donald’s to any one. Its market economics at its purest form. mc Donald’s comes there because those people want it.

whether they or Americans or Canadians get fat from it is their own choosing.

Heck if they want to only eat pita and humus (sp?) (And sharama (sp?)and shish took, actually I love that food as well :D ) all day then mc Donald’s would not survive there. Somehow I suspect that wont happen.

[pinkeye]

I'm at work right now I'll post picture of the TWO Madonals in As Sulaymaniyah after I get home.

just what the kurds need... with mcdonalds' popping up left and right, the waistline in that part of the world will increase to ghastly american proportions...So what you’re not for free choice here?!?

No ones force feeding mc Donald’s to any one. Its market economics at its purest form. mc Donald’s comes there because those people want it.

whether they are Americans of Canadians get fat from it is their own choosing.

wtf? idfm203, your creative interpretations just get better and better. did i say anything about limiting free-choice? i made a joke about fat kurds, courtesy of american fast food, and you somehow construe this as being an indication that i am against free choice? i can't even being to understand your odd thought process.
oh yeah, so people get fat because of their diets, i.e., they choose what they eat? wow, thanks for pointing that out. you are just full of interesting facts, eh? in case you missed, i am being incredibly sarcastic.

[IDFM203]

I'm at work right now I'll post picture of the TWO Madonals in As Sulaymaniyah after I get home.

just what the kurds need... with mcdonalds' popping up left and right, the waistline in that part of the world will increase to ghastly american proportions...So what you’re not for free choice here?!?

No ones force feeding mc Donald’s to any one. Its market economics at its purest form. mc Donald’s comes there because those people want it.

whether they are Americans of Canadians get fat from it is their own choosing.

wtf? idfm203, your creative interpretations just get better and better. did i say anything about limiting free-choice? i made a joke about fat kurds, courtesy of american fast food, and you somehow construe this as being an indication that i am against free choice? i can't even being to understand your odd thought process.
oh yeah, so people get fat because of their diets, i.e., they choose what they eat? wow, thanks for pointing that out. you are just full of interesting facts, eh? in case you missed, i am being incredibly sarcastic.Wow pickeye you are always so sarcastic and just joking around how about you simply paraphrase that from now on...............

I mean talk about an overreaction here.....geez
What did I do to spark your ass on fire???? (Oh wait I offered an opinion which you don’t seem to like me doing)

Anyway’s this was not meant to be a flame war or anything so how about you dial it down a few notches and relax......

You made you sarcastic and “witty” comment and I responded with mine...you see where all being sarcsitc and “witty” here :roll:

(Oh and how about you answer my questions that I respectively asked you in the other thread and of which I took the time to answer your questions. I think its only fair you return the same courtesy)

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pinkeye wrote:

just what the kurds need... with mcdonalds' popping up left and right, the waistline in that part of the world will increase to ghastly american proportions...
Rather than say that you didn't realize they already had a Mcdonalds and just leave it alone, you had to find something 'bad' and attribute it to Americans. Incredible.
I realize you were being sarcastic, but damn...

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ya i was thinking do they have a kfc? kfc is the ****...so good old kabul fried chicken :P

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uh, maybe 'Karbala Fried Chicken' (Kabul is in Afghanistan) and yes KFC is the shizinit!

[Haiw]

Apparantly you have never been to the middle east. They do quite well getting fat on skateboard bread, chicken, rice, pistachios, chocolate, and lamb. Show me a skinny Muslim woman over 30.
there's bound to be at least SOME somali muslim women ;)