Let's Debate Afghanistan In The Pit.

**Marshmallow** · 07-20-2010, 09:51 AM

Is there anything really scandalous in the Wiki Leaks stuff? Or ho-hum stuff we already knew?

07-20-2010, 05:48 PM

If we already knew, would they be "leaked"?

**uzi** · 07-21-2010, 01:16 AM

Originally Posted by adhay

Better now?

Who came first, the chicken or the egg?
What is your solution, o' wise one? The people already have the choice in who they elect, so if anyone is to blame it is the ones you are concerned about getting screwed over. They essentially are screwing themselves.

And just so you understand: Oil companies pay taxes. Lots of them including royalties. In Alberta up to 40% of gross sales come right off the top and then the company pays taxes on the rest. By the time you start pumping gas into your car there are even more taxes. Governments make out like bandits.

07-21-2010, 01:43 AM

Originally Posted by marshmallow

Is there anything really scandalous in the Wiki Leaks stuff? Or ho-hum stuff we already knew?

Both the pentagon and Obama say there is nothing there that is not already in public knowledge. But they do talk about drone failures and the surface to air missile that took down helicopters. That was big in Afghanistan for the Russians. When we got them for the Afghanis the war was too expensive and difficult to win for them.

07-21-2010, 09:34 AM

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0727/gen...ibery-charges/ Here is a story about GE getting a 23 million dollar fine for bribery in Iraq. They also mention that Iraqi officials filtered out 1. 7 billion for themselves. Ain't it beautiful?
This is what we do and what we allow. The reconstruction was not done . The people get bupkis.