Equine Don posted:Wasn't there a C-130 full of pallets of money that disappeared or something. Oh my god that was such amateur hour loving bullshit dreamed up by some rear end in a top hat who saw Ocean's Eleven one too loving many times. Actually stealing physical money? What a loving chump. Everyone else was taking out massive loans to front donations to the RNC and then sucking the sweet sweet teat of contracting money from Bremer or whoever and never delivering a god drat thing. You had a powerpoint with a few buzzwords, a couple of connections with whatever closeted Republican was getting bj's in airport bathrooms and you had a willingness to quote John Galt and you could pretty do anything you loving wanted. And that not even counting the contractors we let carry guns jesus christ those guys were a whole new loving level. Iraq 2003-now is basically every paranoid 70's thriller writers most unbelievable unpublished novel of colossal government conspiracy and incompetence times a loving thousand.
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step one - kill all baby boomers step two - epic bender step three - kill all gen x step four - nuke everything from Egypt to China step five - epicer bender
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iyaayas01 posted:I feel like that was in Iraq but I could completely believe it happening in Afghanistan too. Yeah so this kinda sums it all up, both in its idiocy and genius: quote:Q: "But the fact is billions of dollars have disappeared without trace."
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maffew buildings posted:step one - kill all baby boomers pretty sure a world full of nothing but millenials would suck even worse
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Early Iraq is the reason why the government almost only issues firm fixed price contracts now. I forget how many billions were wasted on time and material contracts issued to KBR and Halliburton, but it's a loltastic amount.
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If you aren't willing to chance a world of millenials in exchange for everyone old dead and the Horn of Africa, middle east and Asia being a giant glass parking lot then I don't know what to say man.
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maffew buildings posted:step one - kill all baby boomers Look, I don't wanna get all "hose everything down in nuclear fire," but I think the world would take us a lot more seriously if we like just minorly nuked ISIS or whoever runs their suck at us next. What's wrong with that? We have these things, gently caress it, let's pop one off every once in a while. Then President Obama could go on tv just like Putin and be like, "what, us? No, must have been some other power in the region with nuclear weapons that flattened a shithole syrian city overnight"
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maffew buildings posted:step one - kill all baby boomers
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iyaayas01 posted:The amount of money that has literally been wasted in Afghanistan is obscene. Waste is the point. Keep the local warlords and defense contractors sweet.
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iyaayas01 posted:I feel like that was in Iraq but I could completely believe it happening in Afghanistan too. The classics never go out of style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csv1wXOr5tY
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psydude posted:Early Iraq is the reason why the government almost only issues firm fixed price contracts now. I forget how many billions were wasted on time and material contracts issued to KBR and Halliburton, but it's a loltastic amount. My favorite is these guys for their outright brazenness: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/09/AR2006030902150.html quote:He testified that of the 36 trucks the firm supplied, 34 did not work. When he confronted Battles, he said Battles responded: "You asked for trucks and we complied with our contract and it is immaterial whether the trucks were operational." Their wikipedia page lists a whole pile of other contracting issues those guys were up to.
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Reuters) - Pakistani helicopter gunships staged a predawn raid on a militant hideout on Saturday and shot dead a top al-Qaeda operative wanted for plotting to bomb the New York subway system, the military said. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has offered a $5 million reward for the capture of Saudi national Adnan el-Shukrijumah, 39, who it said was believed to be al-Qaeda's external operations chief at one time. Shukrijumah, who had a Guyanese passport, was the most senior al-Qaeda member ever killed by the Pakistani military. http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/12/06/pakistan-military-militants-idINKBN0JK08I20141206
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Must've been by accident.
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They probably stopped listening to what the ISI was telling them to do.
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not caring here posted:Must've been by accident. Never would have happened if they had been wearing their PT belts.
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Waroduce posted:Reuters) - Pakistani helicopter gunships staged a predawn raid on a militant hideout on Saturday and shot dead a top al-Qaeda operative wanted for plotting to bomb the New York subway system, the military said. Somebody forget to pay his bribes, and the Paki military (LOL) is showing everyone why they needed to pay up. After all, they gotta make sure to be able to afford all the poo poo they bought on Walmart.com for Black Friday. Edit:  Or, he was about to be captured by the US and the Paki leadership didn't want him singing like a goddamn canary.
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DownByTheWooter posted:Look, I don't wanna get all "hose everything down in nuclear fire," but I think the world would take us a lot more seriously if we like just minorly nuked ISIS or whoever runs their suck at us next. What's wrong with that? We have these things, gently caress it, let's pop one off every once in a while. Then President Obama could go on tv just like Putin and be like, "what, us? No, must have been some other power in the region with nuclear weapons that flattened a shithole syrian city overnight" gently caress that just carpet bomb any major cities the goatfuckers control with some of these bad boys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmRASCHJe2Q
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50 Foot Ant posted:Somebody forget to pay his bribes... Yeah, I think so little of the Pakistanis that this was the first thing to pop into my head. Either that, or AQ has fallen so far down the food chain post-ISIS that the ISI decided to cash him in for brownie points with Uncle Sucker.
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:gently caress that just carpet bomb any major cities the goatfuckers control with some of these bad boys Good loving god.
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Two Finger posted:Good loving god. human rights watch.org posted:The [blast] kill mechanism against living targets is unique--and unpleasant.... What kills is the pressure wave, and more importantly, the subsequent rarefaction [vacuum], which ruptures the lungs.... If the fuel deflagrates but does not detonate, victims will be severely burned and will probably also inhale the burning fuel. Since the most common FAE fuels, ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, are highly toxic, undetonated FAE should prove as lethal to personnel caught within the cloud as most chemical agents.(8) a very unpleasant way to die, very painful. sucks your lungs out through your mouth, while lighting you on fire and covering you in poisonous chemicals if it doesn't light you on fire.
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:gently caress that just carpet bomb any major cities the goatfuckers control with some of these bad boys What's the point of bombing religious fanatics hell bent on dragging their people back into the stone age, into the stone age? They seem to be doing a perfectly good job themselves.
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orange juche posted:a very unpleasant way to die, very painful. sucks your lungs out through your mouth, while lighting you on fire and covering you in poisonous chemicals if it doesn't light you on fire. That's metal as gently caress.
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Courthouse posted:What's the point of bombing religious fanatics hell bent on dragging their people back into the stone age, into the stone age? They seem to be doing a perfectly good job themselves. to make them dead this isnt hard to comprehend
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I support the "give the Kurds a chunk, then let the Turks and Persians have the rest" plan. Things weren't too bad in the ME back when the Turks and Persians were in charge. It's when the Europeans gave it back to the Arabs that everything went to crap.
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psydude posted:That's metal as gently caress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzejqYRtmdY
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Courthouse posted:What's the point of bombing religious fanatics hell bent on dragging their people back into the stone age, into the stone age? They seem to be doing a perfectly good job themselves. because they won't do it fast enough on their own
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Which of you gassed the furry convention in Chicago? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-19-hospitalized-thousands-evacuated-in-gas-leak-at-rosemont-hotel-20141207-story.html quote:“It was shocking,” said Smejkal while standing outside the hotel dressed in a red panda animal suit.
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Zeris posted:Which of you gassed the furry convention in Chicago? Hahahah god bless that person
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Zeris posted:Which of you gassed the furry convention in Chicago?
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Chlorine gas attack, that's pretty old school.
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"He died as he would have wanted to go, asphyxiated in a red panda suit."
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It was probably a furry who did it. Trying to outdo that guy who threw himself down a flight of stairs some years back.
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Probably Literal Nazi Furry, I would say.
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There is some good left in the world 
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Put a bunch of unsupervised mentally ill people in the same place and something bad is bound to happen.
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Hunterhr posted:Put a bunch of unsupervised mentally ill people in the same place and something bad is bound to happen. I haven't seen a VA hospital get shot up yet
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Zeris posted:I haven't seen a VA hospital get shot up yet 
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Zeris posted:Which of you gassed the furry convention in Chicago? Definitely not me.
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:gently caress that just carpet bomb any major cities the goatfuckers control with some of these bad boys 
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Internet Wizard posted:I support the "give the Kurds a chunk, then let the Turks and Persians have the rest" plan. Things weren't too bad in the ME back when the Turks and Persians were in charge. It's when the Europeans gave it back to the Arabs that everything went to crap. I am 100% behind being best buds with Iran again.
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