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  • #76
    Originally posted by Winston
    Ah, presumably that's another report by an outsider to the real situation. How convenient.

    No, I don't click the links you post.
    And that's how you can irrationally presume that someone who was a construction foreman at the embassy site for seven months is "an outsider."
    Last edited by Slaughtermeyer; June 15, 2007, 21:53.
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    • #77
      Was he in any way involved in the construction of Building 7 of the complex do you think?

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      • #78
        Originally posted by Patroklos

        Sour grapes?
        He was probably one of those guys who called his detailer the week before his estimated time at the command was supposed to end, and was shocked, yes, shocked, that on such short notice they couldn't find him a billet where you wear civilian clothes and are in Europe.
        Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.

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        • #79
          Originally posted by Lancer
          I'm sure Filipinos would work pretty much anywhere without being misled and without the permition of their government. For that reason this story seems odd.
          That much is true. The 2004 ban on working in Iraq didn't seem to deter Filipinos in the least. Even the stamp in their post-2004 passports, marking them as invalid for travel to Irag, didn't seem to have much effect.
          "I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George Carlin

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          • #80
            Right, so why BS them?
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            • #81
              Originally posted by Lancer
              Right, so why BS them?
              Well, it sounds like they were still being brought in illegally, and everybody in the State Dept knows that Filipinos aren't allowed to work in Iraq, so it sounds like the Kuwati contractors and State are still culpable here -- its just that the Filipinos are accomplices, rather than victims.

              Given that State's annual Trafficking in Persons report just came our last week, and blasted the Kuwaitis for their labor practices, the fact that we seem to be benefitting from those practices looks pretty bad.
              "I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George Carlin

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              • #82
                Originally posted by Winston
                Was he in any way involved in the construction of Building 7 of the complex do you think?
                Unfortunately the plans for the complex were removed from the internet by order of the State Department before I could examine them to see if there was a Building 7 there.

                http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18979621/
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                • #83
                  Unfortunately the plans for the complex were removed from the internet by order of the State Department before I could examine them to see if there was a Building 7 there.
                  Thank God. You want a story Slaughter? Post a thread on why the plans of the US embassy in Iraq were posted on the interent. Even I would get behind you on that.
                  "The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.

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                  • #84
                    Originally posted by Zkribbler


                    Remember when Lancer was trying to gather support for one of Dolores's cousins, who was being being abused in Dubai (I believe it was), i.e. locked up, not paid, threatened with beatings.
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                    • #85
                      Awesome avatar, Lonestar.

                      -Arrian
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                      • #86
                        Originally posted by Oerdin
                        Having spent 9 years in the service I would like to say that mostly the service is a joke and you can make much better money and have more free time in the civilian world as long as you aren't a total idiot. The problem with the service is that it was filled with idiots. Idiots who couldn't make it in the real world and so who held on fast to the one thing they knew and could get a steady paycheck from. It's not pretty.
                        Why did you spend 9 years at something you obviously hold in little regard. I agree that there are a lot of idiots in the Service but you get that everywhere you work. Seriously, if you thought so little of the service and the people in it why did you stay so long. Some of the best people I know, I met in the service and some of the worst as well, but I would never call it a joke.
                        Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We are evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that. --Saul Tigh

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                        • #87
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                          • #88
                            The treatment/mistreatment of the Filipinos is now the subject of a Congressional inquiry:

                            http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19985226/
                            Click here and here to find out how close the George Washington Bridge came to being blown up on 9/11 and why all evidence against those terrorists was classified. Click here to see the influence of Neocon Zionists in the USA and how they benefitted from 9/11. Remember the USS Liberty and the Lavon Affair.

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                            • #89
                              What isn't the subject of a Congressional inquiry these days.

                              Its a whole cottage industry. I laugh to myself every time Reid/Fiengold or whoever sit all pompous at their podium talking about how their inquiry found crunchy peanut butter is indeed better than smooth. Sprinkle a little anti-Bush rhetoric, smile for the cameras for hours on end, and then wonder why your approval rating is worse than the White House.

                              They are so boring and useless CNN doesn't even hesitate to cut them off mid sentance, if they even bother showing it.
                              "The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.

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