Cease Fire please !! I can't stand it any longer...

[Rex1960]

I'm waving the white flag !!

Gimme a break please. Just enough time to take my breath and catch up with all those threads and polls you've started again.

I've been offline for 3 days and you still haven't been able to solve the problems in the Middle East ?

Now please lemme think about all those capitalists under your beds discussing on who should/would run for the Hooter's franchise in Baghdad...

ooops

Now this question occurs again and again:

What are "we" going to do with Iraq after sending Saddam to Allah ?

Should we treat the country as "we" did after WWI/II with the entire region ?
UN mandatory ?
Should we part the country into three seperated pieces ?
A shi'ite, a sunni' and a kurdish ?
Should we install a certain political system ?
Or just supervise their own development ?
Should we install something like a IRP (Iraqi Recovery Program) ?

I mean, you/we all had the time to argue pro/contra the war. We really don't need to continue this here.
Let's just do as if the war was over and Saddam was history, ok ?

 

[SINthysist]

I would start by asking them what they want once they are free to say what's on their mind...

 

[Rex1960]

not bad at all....

How do they know what they want ?

Is there a "common" wishlist or too many interests involved ? (see "separation" above)

Can they handle the new situation of something like "free speech" and will they use it properly ?

Who will judge ??
Who should decide what's good or bad for them ?

Do you opt for a supervised self-development ?

 

[Lancecastor]

The One Penny Solution For Iraq.

Despite government efforts to stop them, the most popular tv show in China is Baywatch and Google is all the rage there, too.

Despite the Mullahs, Iranians still just want to buy hip-huggers at The Gap.

In Panama City, it was American music that created real change.

The best way to bend Iraq to the will of the USA is to saturation bomb the country with American Culture.

Just give Columbia House the mailing list for Bahgdad....7 CD's for a Penny! And nothing else to buy EVER!?

Then we'll have 'em right where we want 'em, I tell ya.

 

[Rex1960]

Re: The One Penny Solution For Iraq.

Despite government efforts to stop them, the most popular tv show in China is Baywatch and Google is all the rage there, too.

Despite the Mullahs, Iranians still just want to buy hip-huggers at The Gap.

In Panama City, it was American music that created real change.

The best way to bend Iraq to the will of the USA is to saturation bomb the country with American Culture.

Just give Columbia House the mailing list for Bahgdad....7 CD's for a Penny! And nothing else to buy EVER!?

Then we'll have 'em right where we want 'em, I tell ya.

Nothing wrong with Camouflage Hip-Huggers
Do they have burkhas as well ?

But what 7CD's would that be ?
My #1 would be Barry Manilow

 

[TWB]

Try Ice Cream. It is good.

 

[Rex1960]

You mean selling Ice Cream at Baghdad's mainstreet ?

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

How about a hot dog franchise? Maybe expand into bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches? Nice bottle of cold beer to wash it down and mellow them out too.

 

[Rex1960]

You gotta make sure the Frankfurter has no pork.
We should respect the religion...

... and beer ? Wonder what they'd say about that alcohol.

Wait, if it was american beer....

 

[weed]

Re: Cease Fire please!!

I'm waving the white flag !!

Gimme a break please. Just enough time to take my breath and catch up with all those threads and polls you've started again.

I've been offline for 3 days and you still haven't been able to solve the problems in the Middle East ?

Now please lemme think about all those capitalists under your beds discussing on who should/would run for the Hooter's franchise in Baghdad...

ooops

Now this question occurs again and again:

What are "we" going to do with Iraq after sending Saddam to Allah ?

Should we treat the country as "we" did after WWI/II with the entire region ?
UN mandatory ?
Should we part the country into three seperated pieces ?
A shi'ite, a sunni' and a kurdish ?
Should we install a certain political system ?
Or just supervise their own development ?
Should we install something like a IRP (Iraqi Recovery Program) ?

I mean, you/we all had the time to argue pro/contra the war. We really don't need to continue this here.
Let's just do as if the war was over and Saddam was history, ok ?

Rubbing my crystal ball....

A Federalist government is established by US powers attempting to bring Shi'ites, Sunni's and Kurds together but while their leaders provide lip service small fractions of these people bring havoc with more terrorist type activity then ever. 100,000 US troops are needed in the first post-war year in order to provide continued suppression of Islamic radicals and maintain a militarilized peace. Billions of US dollars are poored into the rusty oil production facilities preparing the world's second-largest oil source for take-over by US oil entities. A small upper class develops as some are able participate in the infiltration of Western capitolism but great disparity exists between classes of people. The Iraqi people remain impoverished although more money is poored into humanitarian efforts that provide foodstuffs and vaccinations. As pockets of Western culture develop crime, gang activity and drug use develop amonst segments of the Iraqi young. Asian countries emerge united as one of the greatest economic powers as they come together in fear of the post-war economy. Bin Laden comes out of hiding with his regrouped Al Qaeda after his next act of violence in the name of God against the Western world.

 

[Guest]

 

[weed]

I'm all for bombing the arabs.

As many as possible.

Syria,Iran & Saudi have to be taken out too

That wasn't the question.

What do you think should or will be done after?

 

[SINthysist]

I think he'd bomb then again...

That would be the most controversial thing to do.

There. Got your attention. I was trying to ignore, but then weed had to go and respond, so I guess now, it's going to be another fun Sunday morning Bantering With Trolls...

 

[weed]

Hans would bomb again? Speaks highly of his character, I suppose.

That's ok....I think SIN needs a little more fun in his life.

 

[SINthysist]

Rubbing my crystal ball, technology replaces oil, leaves Arabs helpless. Now Russia won't get any money from oil either and suddenly doesn't give a damn about the new pipeline and suddenly stop instigating the trouble.

Similary, the Chinese seeing themselves in a tight spot, increase illegal campaign contributions to the Democrats, hoping to get someone into office who will secretly sell them the technology...

Whole region goes back to historic chunk and dunk deprived of finances to bother rest of world.

End of story.




PART II - Return of the Chinese

With new technology in hand...

 

[SINthysist]

Are you kidding? I've been waiting two years to get back to election cycle hatred on the board...

I'm in HEAVEN!

 

[weed]

Rubbing my crystal ball, technology replaces oil, leaves Arabs helpless. Now Russia won't get any money from oil either and suddenly doesn't give a damn about the new pipeline and suddenly stop instigating the trouble.

Similary, the Chinese seeing themselves in a tight spot, increase illegal campaign contributions to the Democrats, hoping to get someone into office who will secretly sell them the technology...

Whole region goes back to historic chunk and dunk deprived of finances to bother rest of world.

End of story.




PART II - Return of the Chinese

With new technology in hand...

Technology replaces oil?

You think we're going to leave all that crude sitting there?

 

[weed]

Are you kidding? I've been waiting two years to get back to election cycle hatred on the board...

I'm in HEAVEN!

You hate mongerer, you. So just wtf you been doing for two years? And where am I going to find your stories?

Fess up!

 

[SINthysist]

Depends on whether or not it becomes radioactive ...

 

[SINthysist]

Waiting for I told you so time ...

I don't give a shit about the stories, I was asked by several sources to use them, but where they are, I care not.

Art is like that.

 

[weed]

Depends on whether or not it becomes radioactive ...

OMG....a new commodity....nuclear oil!

Or is that nuculear?

Probably nuculear since it'll be used by the military....but I'm sure they would provide adequate protection for the servicemen potentially exposed.

 

[weed]

Waiting for I told you so time ...

I don't give a shit about the stories, I was asked by several sources to use them, but where they are, I care not.

Art is like that.

Guess you gave up stories for jacking here on Lit poli-threads, eh?

Does "I told you so" make you cum?

 

[SINthysist]

Yes, I reached the end of that phase in my life. It was fun, but as in so many other things I just decided to move on. Once this last strategy has come to it's logical conclusion, then too, this phase will pass...




As a measure of satisfaction, no. It's more self-curiosity. Did I see this trend correctly?

 

[Sandia]

Rex: women in Iraq don't have to wear the burka. In fact, it's one of - if not the - most liberated countries in the area.

The what-to-do after the occupation question is a good one, though. The army is estimating a 75,000 man occupation force. If you guesstimate, say $5000 per man per month, and multiple that out, that comes to -- shit, I don't have my calculator... well, anyway, something like four hundred million a month? (Somebody please help, I'm terrible at math.) Of course, that's just the tip of the iceberg.

If the US goes in and bombs the hell out of Iraq first, in prep for the attack, there's gonna be a lot of bombed out bridges, fucked up roads, downed power lines, and just general havoc. A lot of people needing to be buried. I wonder how much that's gonna cost?

But really, the big question is, what happens if they don't catch Saddam?

 

[SINthysist]

The Russians get to stop the competing pipeline project strengthening the Sino-Russo axis and increasing the chances of REAL war on the Korean peninsula and Taiwan. Furthermore, the increased destabalization of the region because of a US/UN/NHRE unfeared increases the likely hood that the Pakistanni weapons may truly become the Islamic bomb while Saddam's Arab bomb will be then freed up for use on Tel Aviv...