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2014-12-01 Iraq

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-12-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Well known over there: half the ghost soldier's checks go into the commander's pocket in order that the men do not have to show up for duty.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-12-01 00:14|| 2014-12-01 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Thieving Arab culture at work.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-12-01 00:14|| 2014-12-01 00:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Pretty much any third world country runs like this. Arabs excel at it however....

Posted by DarthVader 2014-12-01 00:55|| 2014-12-01 00:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds like a Detroit auto Union deal.

Posted by Airandee 2014-12-01 06:12|| 2014-12-01 06:12|| Front Page Top

#5 The Iraqi army melted away before IS even showed up to fight.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-12-01 09:50|| 2014-12-01 09:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Too much oil revenue in Iraq to get the Green Energy Crony rip-off gravy training rolling. Got to do it the old fashion way.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-12-01 10:24|| 2014-12-01 10:24|| Front Page Top

#7 'train'

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-12-01 10:24|| 2014-12-01 10:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Looks like a close second to the IRS mailing refund checks to thousands of prison inmates.

Of course, first prize goes Illinois election boards denying soldiers their ballots while hand delivering ballots to ~~Obama voters~~ felons in prison.

Posted by Frozen Al 2014-12-01 10:25|| 2014-12-01 10:25|| Front Page Top

#9 There is an old Southern saying: "You can't fix stupid." Perhaps it should be expanded to include: "You can't fix Arab."

Posted by Grenter B. Hayes5053 2014-12-01 10:57|| 2014-12-01 10:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Now wait a minute. If Iraq has all that oil, why do they need $1.2 billion from us to train and equip their army? Why aren't they paying us $1.2 billion?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-12-01 11:50|| 2014-12-01 11:50|| Front Page Top

#11 If Iraq has all that oil, why do they need $1.2 billion from us to train and equip their army?

Isn't ISIS sitting on some of it, and the Kurds taking ownership of some of the rest -- and that cute little civil war interfering with the exploitation of what remains?

Posted by trailing wife 2014-12-01 12:41|| 2014-12-01 12:41|| Front Page Top

#12 This story is a big yawn, 50,000 ghost soldiers, so what, just pump some more oil out of the ground, its Iraqi welfare.

I'd be more interested in Angela Jolie's engagement ring which at $250,000, cost more than my house. Pretty isn't it.

Posted by Flinenter Snore1266 2014-12-01 12:45|| 2014-12-01 12:45|| Front Page Top

#13 tw - ISIS has very little of the Iraqi oil, though it does disrupt investment and transportation. The Kurds do indeed have a big chunk. But the biggest part of the Iraqi oil resource continues to be in the Shia areas.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-12-01 12:56|| 2014-12-01 12:56|| Front Page Top

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