US Conflicts, By the Numbers...

**wefearourdespot** · 31-10-2009, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

I'm pretty sure Iraq, north korea, afghanistan, china ...

You just reminded me to add to my list Tibet,Sinkiang Uigur and Burma ...although their chances to be invaded by those nasty marines are quite thin.

**wefearourdespot** · 31-10-2009, 06:08 PM

Did I mention Georgia and the de facto now independent Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) ?

**Boon Mee** · 31-10-2009, 06:12 PM

Nah...let's go for Skegness. Clean the place up a bit. Then, off to Blackpool and square-away those badly-dressed 'holiday-makers'

**dirtydog** · 31-10-2009, 06:14 PM

I have just saved American tax payers millions of dollars on research, here is a list of the worlds smallest countries for American to practise war with and illegal invasion techniques.

1 Nauru
2 Tuvalu
3 Marshall Iceland
4 Maldives
5 Malta
6 Greenada
7 St. Vincent and the Grenadines
8 St. Kitts and Nevis
9 Barbados
10 Antigua and Barbuda

World Top Ten Smallest Island Countries

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**mobs00** · 31-10-2009, 06:17 PM

^ No thanks, those are good for R&R

**dirtydog** · 31-10-2009, 06:22 PM

^They have muslims and weapons of mass destruction

I also heard they have OIL aswell.

**Boon Mee** · 31-10-2009, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

^They have muslims and weapons of mass destruction

I also heard they have OIL aswell.

Well, so does Skeggie and ugly women too...

**robuzo** · 31-10-2009, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

I have just saved American tax payers millions of dollars on research, here is a list of the worlds smallest countries for American to practise war with and illegal invasion techniques.

1 Nauru
2 Tuvalu
3 Marshall Iceland
4 Maldives
5 Malta
6 Greenada
7 St. Vincent and the Grenadines
8 St. Kitts and Nevis
9 Barbados
10 Antigua and Barbuda

World Top Ten Smallest Island Countries

No need to thank me, just send your donations to teakdoor

Um, Grenada has been done, bud. And Malta is smaller than Haiti? Anybody remember nation-building in Haiti?

**dirtydog** · 31-10-2009, 06:28 PM

Originally Posted by robuzo

Um, Grenada has been done,

Did you win that one without too many casualties?

**mobs00** · 31-10-2009, 06:29 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

^They have muslims and weapons of mass destruction

I also heard they have OIL aswell.

Yeah, sure. Next you'll tell me them have WMD.........

**robuzo** · 31-10-2009, 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Originally Posted by robuzo

Um, Grenada has been done,

Did you win that one without too many casualties?

The military liberated a medical school and shot it out with some Cuban construction workers as I recall. Then Clint Eastwood made a movie about it.

**dirtydog** · 31-10-2009, 06:35 PM

^Stuff like that can only help build confidence for the American fighting machine, I suggest they invade some of those islands listed and liberate more hospitals and stuff

**robuzo** · 31-10-2009, 06:44 PM

The Euro-peons on this board shouldn't get too snarky. America as self-appointed global cop may not be in anyone's best interest, but Europe/UN sat by and watched from the sidelines while genocide took place not only in Africa (actually, Europe is still watching all kinds of horror take place in the Congo and Darfur), but on the continent itself after Yugoslavia fell apart. The US had to risk conflict with Russia just to come in and sort that one out. The Euro-weenies, with the exception of some famous Danes, for the most part didn't want to stand up to the Serbs. I personally didn't support the air campaign against Serbian towns, but could never quite figure out why that was America's mess to clean up in the first place. Expecting to be able to sit by while the former Yugo members slugged it out is one thing, but when the "ethnic cleansing" starts I think you have to do something. Did it have something to do with most of the people being "cleansed" praying to Allah?

**dirtydog** · 31-10-2009, 06:52 PM

Thank God americas newspapers are allowed to publish pictures now of the coffins of those proud american dead soldiers, it must make you all proud when you get to see your dead heroes coffins, most of which probably didn't even get to see who killed them.
Just a shame really that America has nearly bankrupted itself protecting the world from, erm, what was it again?

**AntRobertson** · 31-10-2009, 07:12 PM

Estimated US cost of the Afghanistan war per year: US$60 billion ($82 billion).

Estimated cost of both wars so far: US$1 trillion.

Estimated future cost to repay war debt, replenish military equipment and provide care and treatment for US veterans back home: US$2 trillion plus.

Those are some staggering figures, albeit some are only estimated / projected.

When you read figures like those and then read posts from some laying the blame of the current financial mess the US is in squarely at the feet of Obama, well... Blinkered comes to mind.

pompeybloke · 31-10-2009, 07:19 PM

Originally Posted by mobs00

Originally Posted by dirtydog

^They have muslims and weapons of mass destruction

I also heard they have OIL aswell.

Yeah, sure. Next you'll tell me them have WMD.........

Just did, didn't he? Has this thread gotten a bit wierd at this stage?

**dirtydog** · 31-10-2009, 07:24 PM

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Those are some staggering figures, albeit some are only estimated / projected. When you read figures like those and then read posts from some laying the blame of the current financial mess the US is in squarely at the feet of Obama, well... Blinkered comes to mind.

If thats the cost that American taxpayers have to pay then so be it, we should just be thankfull that americans love us all so much and are willing to dig deep into their own pockets to protect us from, erm, muslim bogey men? black helicopters? well whatever it is that America is protecting us from with their own money, their own dead soldiers, I think America is, is, erm, putting in a lot of money into protecting us from bogey men.

**robuzo** · 31-10-2009, 07:26 PM

^^The Bushies tried to keep the coffins and dead bodies off the news. Obama is being accused of grandstanding. It's almost as if America needs to be reminded that Iraq isn't over- as Mark Danner puts it, "The great spotlight that illuminated Iraq for a half dozen years has moved elsewhere, leaving the ruins we’ve left behind mostly in darkness." ADD meets foreign policy.
^It can always get weirder!

**AntRobertson** · 31-10-2009, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Those are some staggering figures, albeit some are only estimated / projected. When you read figures like those and then read posts from some laying the blame of the current financial mess the US is in squarely at the feet of Obama, well... Blinkered comes to mind.

If thats the cost that American taxpayers have to pay then so be it, we should just be thankfull that americans love us all so much and are willing to dig deep into their own pockets to protect us from, erm, muslim bogey men? black helicopters? well whatever it is that America is protecting us from with their own money, their own dead soldiers, I think America is, is, erm, putting in a lot of money into protecting us from bogey men.

Yes you're quite correct.

In fact I think that they've budgeted $2,376.00 just to make sure that every night I go to bed there's no Muslim bogey men (or whatever they are) hiding under my bed. Thank you the US!

**robuzo** · 31-10-2009, 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

well whatever it is that America is protecting us from with their own money, their own dead soldiers, I think America is, is, erm, putting in a lot of money into protecting us from bogey men.

Actually, America has been borrowing most of that money. Which might explain why US troops guard Chinese miners in Afghanistan.

**mobs00** · 31-10-2009, 07:33 PM

TeakDoor is so patriotic. Look at all the awesome smileys I found on the list!

Thanks DD!

**Butterfly** · 31-10-2009, 07:36 PM

Originally Posted by robuzo

The Euro-peons on this board shouldn't get too snarky. America as self-appointed global cop may not be in anyone's best interest, but Europe/UN sat by and watched from the sidelines while genocide took place not only in Africa (actually, Europe is still watching all kinds of horror take place in the Congo and Darfur), but on the continent itself after Yugoslavia fell apart.

absolutely and that was a very shameful episode for the EU. The problem lies with the EU limited political agenda when it comes to foreigner affairs, regardless, if it wasn't for Clinton courage, Europe would have been again the theater of another genocide (who is counting anyway).

so until then, we are stuck with the yanks and hope they don't elect another retard to fuck up the world. Hopefully the Iraq mess will serve this purpose by reminding everyone for a very long time that being a policeman comes with responsibility.

**dirtydog** · 31-10-2009, 07:39 PM

Originally Posted by robuzo

The Bushies tried to keep the coffins and dead bodies off the news.

Sadly soldiers get killed, it's all part of their job, bit like coal miners getting dirty finger nails and prostitutes getting prolapsed vaginas, it goes with the teritory so to speak

**Rural Surin** · 31-10-2009, 07:40 PM

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

Depressing figures, especially the suicide rates.

All thanks to Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

I wonder what they are doing now.................

Gathering their riches that come from war profiteer associations.

**Rural Surin** · 31-10-2009, 07:43 PM

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by melvbot

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Well, it's tough to be the world's policeman but somebody's gotta do it, eh?

Errr, thats the whole point. Not that many people want the US to be the world police.

Right...and yáll would be sprekin' ze German right now too but the Japs dragged us into that one...

Of course they would. Indoctrinated textbook drudgery....

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