Pentagon Backs $5 Billion Green Zone Development Plan

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  1. [theDarkest_noir]

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    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354120,00.html

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  2. Sean the Puritan

    Sean the Puritan Endut! Hoch Hech!

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  3. Ramen

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    The real estate bubble moves to Baghdad?
  4. [theDarkest_noir]

    [theDarkest_noir] restless soul.

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    wonder who'll make the most money off this one...
  5. Azure

    Azure I could kick your ass

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    I think its a good thing.

    The sooner Baghdad turns into a 'normal' city...the better.
  6. Chuck

    Chuck Go Giants!

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  7. Forbin

    Forbin Do you feel fluffy, punk?

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    The only questiuon is will the nutjobs wait till it's finished to start diving airplanes into it, or drop one on it every now and then during construction?
  8. [theDarkest_noir]

    [theDarkest_noir] restless soul.

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    Which nutjobs? The ones in office, or the ones hiding in caves...
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  9. Azure

    Azure I could kick your ass

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    Easy now.....
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  10. 14thDoctor

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    In a "normal" city, the nice part of town doesn't need 24/7 military protection, lest it be blown to bits. :bergman:
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    I don't know, Detroit hasn't blown up yet despite the lack of an occupation force.

    Though maybe it should. :unsure:
  12. Azure

    Azure I could kick your ass

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    Well, I guess the majority of the cities in the US aren't 'normal' cities then.
  13. 14thDoctor

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    You're not seriously comparing a city police force to the united states military, are you?
  14. Azure

    Azure I could kick your ass

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    No I'm saying that 'normal' cities in the US ALSO have a high level of crime, and they seem to function without blowing up.
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    Judging by how most other contracting has been going in Iraq, this will be blown up a half-dozen times with 200% cost overruns including several billion that is completely unaccounted for before they just give up with the project about 1/3 complete.

    Either that or everyone will be electrocuted because of the shoddy work of some Haliburton subsidiary.
  16. 14thDoctor

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    So terrorism is just a crime again? :soma:

    Does that mean we can finally go back to treating terrorists like criminals, and not enemies in some big fancy war?
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  17. 14thDoctor

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    Eat a dick, noob. :bergman:
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  18. Dead Peon

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    Green zones show the least tiberium contamination and are under the direct protection of the Global Defense Initiative.

    Yellow zones represent the majority of the Earth's surface and show dangerous tiberium infestation. Decades of war and civil unrest have turned these zones into fertile recruiting grounds for the Brotherhood of Nod, who operate with impunity within them.

    The rest of the planet are so called red zones, which are completely uninhabitable to Earth-based life. Dangerous ion storms and tiberium glaciers make this landscape almost alien in appearance.
  19. [theDarkest_noir]

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    I meant to neg rep you. Doesn't matter though, I'm a noob, we make mistakes. I love how my inexperience is an excuse...it always leaves me wondering...You've been here how long? What is your's?

    What a minute..."pinko fag commie liberal"...Ahhhh, never mind.
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  20. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    Ummm.....isn't our goal to teach the Iraqi's to be self sufficient?
    You know, provide their own security, develope their own country?
    Are we (America/The West) all about nation/strip mall building?:salute:
  21. [theDarkest_noir]

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    We westernized Japan after WWII, they seem pretty productive...(not counting the level of suicide rate...)
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