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Old 05-10-2006, 06:24 PM   #1
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Bush is building the worlds largest embassy in IRAQ, wTf!?!.............

The Bush administration is building a half billion dollar embassy in downtown Baghdad on the banks of the Tigris. The "compound" will encompass over 104 acres of land and employ over eight thousand people when complete...

For whatever reason the construction crew working on the embassy is entirely from Kuwait...and the locals are pissed off that they are being ignored with such a huge construction project going up right in there own backyard without so much as a sniff of employment.

The walls are said to be fifteen feet thick and aside from the Great Wall of China it will also be visible with the naked eye from space. So the question is....what is Bush's real exit plan? Or is he saying that US troops will never leave the area and this embassy will be his stepping stone into regions further east....Iran possibly?
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Where did you get the info?
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Old 05-10-2006, 06:27 PM   #3
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Where did you get the info?
exactly what I was wondering.
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Where did you get the info?
if i tell you, i run the risk of getting killed
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Exit Plan?... Iraq Is Just Another One Of Our Parking Lots
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exactly what I was wondering.
i read it on GNN but they pulled the article for some strange reason...

so this is top secret news
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i read it on GNN but they pulled the article for some strange reason...
so this is top secret news
Uhm, you really are just about as intelligent as a bowl movement, aren't you?
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i read it on GNN but they pulled the article for some strange reason...

so this is top secret news
Cool...I love GNN...besides, how do we know when it's real news again?
Has that been decided yet?
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Cool...I love GNN...besides, how do we know when it's real news again?
Has that been decided yet?
Good point..the trick is to gather as much info as possible and make your own decision...every news article is biased by the the writer/editor...so it's up to you to decide what to believe....jus don't turn on Fox news
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Iraq is a major strategic interest of the United States.

Thousands of our brave US soldiers have died liberating Iraq, and some economists estimate the cost of the Iraq war will be $1 trillion by the time it is done.

Why does it surprise you that we will continue to maintain a presence there via a prominent embassy?
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you can not see the great wall from space
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Here's another article about it:

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Why the fuck do we need that?
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are you on drugs or something?
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Iraq is a major strategic interest of the United States.

Thousands of our brave US soldiers have died liberating Iraq, and some economists estimate the cost of the Iraq war will be $1 trillion by the time it is done.

Why does it surprise you that we will continue to maintain a presence there via a prominent embassy?
It doesn't surprise me at all...I just question the real reasoning/significance for such a huge embassy...why not a standard size building? I thought you guys were there to liberate...not occupy.
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Exit Plan? WTF is that...

Jesus people are dumb.

Its called war.
War means ya take by force alone when other means have failed.
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Why the fuck do we need that?
exactly! what was i suppose to ask.
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Here's another article about it:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12319798/
how did you find that link, i thought it was a secret lol
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Are you sure about that? I've always been told you can.
Its actually true - you cant.

Those pics above are not what the naked eye can see, obviously.

With the right equipment you can see down someones clevage from space.

I saw it on 'Mythbusters" so it must be true
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MAMA SAID "STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES"!

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Diplomatic embassy with 8,000 people? LOL Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what that compound is really doing.

Perfect location when you think about. Smack in the middle of all the terrorists nests.

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damnn, your right KRL! they are setting up some sort of secret service there and thats their HQ
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Iraq is right in the middle of things . Perfect spot to establish strong military
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Why WOULD you be able to see the great wall from space? It isn't THAT wide or THAT tall. I mean, seriously guys.
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..well, are YOU on drugs? How could you possibly see it from space? It's not *WIDE*, it might be long as hell..but it's not even as wide as a creek down the road...and I don't see that from space. Use your common sense people, if it reads somewhere it doesn't mean it's true.

...madawgz, are you sure you're 18 yet btw? You post the darndest things.
--and not only on this thread, your posts overall seem to give an impression that you're pretty ignorant and don't know much of anything. Not bashing or anything, but you could try to think a moment before each post. What's more important to you, to have a big post count, or less posts with some worthwhile content.

...wait, don't answer that.
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Good point..the trick is to gather as much info as possible and make your own decision...every news article is biased by the the writer/editor...so it's up to you to decide what to believe....jus don't turn on Fox news

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Seems like a secret HQ, the middle east will love that.
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..well, are YOU on drugs? How could you possibly see it from space? It's not *WIDE*, it might be long as hell..but it's not even as wide as a creek down the road...and I don't see that from space. Use your common sense people, if it reads somewhere it doesn't mean it's true.

...madawgz, are you sure you're 18 yet btw? You post the darndest things.
--and not only on this thread, your posts overall seem to give an impression that you're pretty ignorant and don't know much of anything. Not bashing or anything, but you could try to think a moment before each post. What's more important to you, to have a big post count, or less posts with some worthwhile content.

...wait, don't answer that.
what about google earth? those are satellite images, you can see it from there
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Yeah, I can read over my nextdoor neighbors shoulder with binoculars, doesn't mean I can with my naked eye. Interestingly enough, I can also see the cars parked infront of my house with google earth, I wonder if I can see them from space without any visual aids.

Are you really this dumb, or are you just fucking around. I'm pretty worried you're not fucking around.
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The Bush administration is building a half billion dollar embassy in downtown Baghdad on the banks of the Tigris. The "compound" will encompass over 104 acres of land and employ over eight thousand people when complete...

For whatever reason the construction crew working on the embassy is entirely from Kuwait...and the locals are pissed off that they are being ignored with such a huge construction project going up right in there own backyard without so much as a sniff of employment.

The walls are said to be fifteen feet thick and aside from the Great Wall of China it will also be visible with the naked eye from space. So the question is....what is Bush's real exit plan? Or is he saying that US troops will never leave the area and this embassy will be his stepping stone into regions further east....Iran possibly?

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Yeah, I can read over my nextdoor neighbors shoulder with binoculars, doesn't mean I can with my naked eye. Interestingly enough, I can also see the cars parked infront of my house with google earth, I wonder if I can see them from space without any visual aids.

Are you really this dumb, or are you just fucking around. I'm pretty worried you're not fucking around.
Exactly!!! What people don't realize is that everyone of our houses, cars, etc... can be seen from space..... with telescopic cameras!

It doesn't make my house somehow different from eveything else just because I can pull it up on google earth for god's sake!
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Claim: The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from the moon.

Status: False.

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I'm not gonna jump off. YOU jump off! that China's Great Wall is the only man-made object that can be seen from the moon with the naked eye is one of our more tenaciously incorrect "facts," a bit of erroneous speculation which was spawned decades before we had the means to demonstrate it true, and which continues to have currency despite having long since been proved false. Some less specific versions of the Great Wall claim maintain it is the only man-made object that can be seen from "space," but although the term "space" is rather non-specific, it is not difficult to show the Great Wall claim to be false for any reasonable definition of the term.

If we take "space" to mean a low Earth orbit such as the one travelled by the Space Shuttle (roughly 160 to 350 miles above Earth), the Great Wall claim fails twice. First of all, it's not the only object visible from that distance: NASA's Earth from Space photographic archive (particularly the Human Interactions section) shows that pictures taken from low orbit reveal human-built structures such as highways, airports, bridges, dams, and components of the Kennedy Space Center. Secondly, even though other objects are visible at this distance, according to Shuttle astronaut Jay Apt, the Great Wall is barely discernable, if not invisible:

We look for the Great Wall of China. Although we can see things as small as airport runways, the Great Wall seems to be made largely of materials that have the same color as the surrounding soil. Despite persistent stories that it can be seen from the moon, the Great Wall is almost invisible from only 180 miles up!

An object that can barely be seen from a height of 180 miles up is obviously not going to be visible from the moon (roughly 237,000 miles away), as confirmed by Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean:

The only thing you can see from the moon is a beautiful sphere, mostly white (clouds), some blue (ocean), patches of yellow (deserts), and every once in a while some green vegetation. No man-made object is visible on this scale. In fact, when first leaving earth's orbit and only a few thousand miles away, no man-made object is visible at that point either."

(The Great Wall of China can be discerned in radar images taken from space, but not in ordinary photographs.)

Where did this belief come from? The exact source is unknown, but the earliest citing we have comes from Richard Halliburton's Second Book of Marvels, the Orient, published in 1938, which states that "Astronomers say that the Great Wall is the only man-made thing on our planet visible to the human eye from the moon." Halliburton was an adventurer-lecturer whose travel writings were extremely popular and sold quite well during the first half of the twentieth century (and who wasn't above spinning tall tales in order to enthrall an audience), and if he himself wasn't the originator of this factoid, he undoubtedly helped it to spread widely.

Whatever its source, since the Great Wall claim antedates man's launching of satellites (and thereby the possibility of photography from space) by decades, it was not the outgrowth of a misinterpreted photograph taken by satellite or a manned space mission. The Great Wall of China extends for some 1,500 miles (although it is actually a series of walls rather than one contiguous wall), and the claim that it is visible from the moon was probably an attempt to find a concise way of conveying the grand scale of the wall to people who had never seen it (outside of black-and-white photographs that could only reproduce small portions of the wall) and of asserting the triumph of man's mastery of the vastness of nature (i.e., even if we couldn't travel into space ourselves, we'd already constructed a man-made object of such large scale that it would surely be visible all the way from from the moon).
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ok... well you cant really see anything from space with your eyes, just water...
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ok... well you cant really see anything from space with your eyes, just water...
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Old 05-11-2006, 02:53 PM   #45
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lol@the idiots who didn't believe
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Old 05-11-2006, 03:44 PM   #46
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Of course it's big - office space for his cronies in the oil industry, what else?
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Old 05-11-2006, 03:58 PM   #47
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why the hell do i even post pics?
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Old 05-11-2006, 04:05 PM   #48
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Too easy to find out why !!

option 1 : Bush will open a franchise business, so every country he blow will have a whitehouse franchise.

Today iraq ... tomorrow iran


option 2 : it's a new factory facilities to build weapons of mass destruction, so iraq will finaly have weapons of mass destruction, no need to lie anymore !


Of course I am just kidding.
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Old 05-11-2006, 04:33 PM   #49
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why the hell do i even post pics?
because your an expert at it, and you make me laugh
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Old 05-11-2006, 04:43 PM   #50
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Uhm, you really are just about as intelligent as a bowl movement, aren't you?

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