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2004-09-15 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Steve White 2004-09-15 12:09:56 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Explain to me how a man feeds his family selling two cartons of smokes a day. Different economy. I saw stuff like this in Indonesia. The smokes cost a huge percent of annual earning, while (say) housing and food could be dirt cheap.

Posted by cingold 2004-09-15 1:56:59 AM|| 2004-09-15 1:56:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Extending and revising remark:

The smokes __could__ cost . . .

In Indonesia, as I remember, smokes were pretty cheap. But, in Iraq (at least if this story is accurate) it would look like they cost the equivalent of what in the US would be $25 a pack.

Posted by cingold 2004-09-15 2:01:11 AM|| 2004-09-15 2:01:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 â¦they cost the equivalent of what in the US would be $25 a pack.

Damm. Just like California.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-15 2:24:15 AM|| 2004-09-15 2:24:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Police commander Major General Mohammed al-Barhawy said all the 'resistance' had either been killed or had fled town, and that police had not apprehended any militants.

Is that so strange when you bomb only civilian women and children?

Posted by Murat 2004-09-15 4:36:00 AM|| 2004-09-15 4:36:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 No as everyone knows only Muslims bomb only women and children. They usually bomb the women and children first in fact. When real fighting men show up they hide like little girls in holy places and with people who have no part of the conflict. Change Muslim for Turkman and it's pretty much the same thing I understand.

Allen be praised!

Posted by Trolling for Allan 2004-09-15 5:03:52 AM|| 2004-09-15 5:03:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Murat: Is that so strange when you bomb only civilian women and children?

Sorry Murat, once again you mistake Jihadi militants wearing burqas and militant midgets for women and children.

Posted by Ittihad ve Terakki Jemiyeti 2004-09-15 5:52:52 AM|| 2004-09-15 5:52:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Like brave Muslim Jihadis, murat, they ran away. What's so mysterious about THAT?

Posted by Ptah 2004-09-15 7:40:14 AM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2004-09-15 7:40:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Like Murat, they are girlie-men.

Posted by Fatwula 2004-09-15 7:44:51 AM|| 2004-09-15 7:44:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Green armoured car? Where does DOD expect to fight? Fulda Gap? Can't DOD afford Earl Scheib? After 15 years you'd think everything would be tan.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-09-15 9:16:50 AM|| 2004-09-15 9:16:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Hey, Murat. How much damage do you think gramps could've done if the Turks had something like F-16's back in ,say, 1910?

Posted by tu3031 2004-09-15 10:32:00 AM|| 2004-09-15 10:32:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 I knew a Swedish business man who told me that as recently as the 1960's, you could buy a prostitute in Greece for a carton of Kent cigarettes.

Posted by JDB 2004-09-15 3:31:51 PM|| 2004-09-15 3:31:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Good heavens! I wonder what you could get with a carton of Marblerows.

Posted by Shipman 2004-09-15 6:20:26 PM|| 2004-09-15 6:20:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 few people who stayed behind were 'very stressed and needed to smoke'. He sold 10 cartons a day, he said. Before the siege, he only managed to sell two cartons a day.

hmmmm I see no confirmation tobacco was the active ingredient in those smokes

Posted by Frank G 2004-09-15 6:25:01 PM|| 2004-09-15 6:25:01 PM|| Front Page Top

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