Should we get Reinvolved with Iraq?

[SoonerP226]

To put those numbers in perspective; if we equate one dollar to one second then the following roughly applies.

One million seconds ago was about a week and a half ago.
One billion seconds ago was early 1982.
One trillion seconds ago was about 31,709 years ago.

I like the explanation Gordon Liddy gave for saying "thousand million" instead of "billion." He said billion was a number so big that people couldn't really grasp what it meant, but most people could envision a thousand dollars. If you spent a thousand dollars a day, it would take you roughly three years to spend a million dollars--or roughly three thousand years to spend a thousand million dollars at that same rate.

Put another way, if you had a billion dollars and had started spending a thousand dollars a day on the day Jesus was born (ignoring your short lifespan and calendar shenanigans along the way), you'd still have roughly $300 million left. And I'm sure you'd have a lot more to show for it than does Uncle Sam...

 

[The Cow Exploder]

Send every illegal alien over 18 years of age for a three year tour. The ones who survive get citizenship.

 

[Spata]

Send every illegal alien over 18 years of age for a three year tour. The ones who survive get citizenship.

Lol, why would they do that when they can just hang out here and get free stuff?

 

[tRidiot]

Lol, why would they do that when they can just hang out here and get free stuff?

Indeed. With none of the responsibilities of citizenship.

 

[Lurker66]

Send every illegal alien over 18 years of age for a three year tour. The ones who survive get citizenship.

Think about it. 10 million illegals. How many would become citizens after a 3 yr tour if we lost 4,600ish in 14 years? Not to mention the blow to the economy and taxpayers who would have to support a military of 10 million.

Stupid idea.

 

[Glocktogo]

Think about it. 10 million illegals. How many would become citizens after a 3 yr tour if we lost 4,600ish in 14 years? Not to mention the blow to the economy and taxpayers who would have to support a military of 10 million.

Stupid idea.

After dismissing all the ones who couldn't meet the enlistment standards, it would only be about 100,000.

 

[uncle money bags]

We should have an American Foreign Legion.

 

[uncle money bags]

By the way...
The American Embassy in Baghdad plans to evacuate a substantial number of its personnel this week in the face of a militant advance that rapidly swept from the north toward the capital, the State Department announced on Sunday.

The embassy, a beige fortress on the banks of the Tigris River within the heavily-secured Green Zone, where Iraqi government buildings are also located, has the largest staff of any United States Embassy.
http://weaselzippers.us/189957-brea...hdad-to-evacuate-most-its-staff-from-country/

 

[ignerntbend]

By the way...
The American Embassy in Baghdad plans to evacuate a substantial number of its personnel this week in the face of a militant advance that rapidly swept from the north toward the capital, the State Department announced on Sunday.

The embassy, a beige fortress on the banks of the Tigris River within the heavily-secured Green Zone, where Iraqi government buildings are also located, has the largest staff of any United States Embassy.
http://weaselzippers.us/189957-brea...hdad-to-evacuate-most-its-staff-from-country/

WOW. My uncle was career army. When our tanks first rolled into Baghdad he asked me if I remembered the people fighting to get on helicopters on the roof of the embassy at Saigon.

"If you saw how that ended, you've seen how this ends."

 

[Glocktogo]

We should have an American Foreign Legion.

That's actually a damned good idea.