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Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:03 pm
by hoob
Nope - just the 53rd. Or is it 60th, after taking into account Iraq, Grenada, Afghanistan........
Is it just me or was it only a few years ago that the USSR left the Afghan's alone? and didn't we get our behinds kicked in 1800 and something? Not just the US that forgets or isn't interested in things
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:49 pm
by J.R.
Afghanistan is a country that is almost impossible to control if the locals don't want you too, as we learnt to our cost, as did the Russians.
I have seen some restricted video footage of exactly how the rebels dealt with the Ruski's, using second rate equipment, but higly successfully.
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 2:48 am
by Laura M
I agree how can you tell who's who these days, take Somalia the police don't wear rig the militia don't either as a country who is sposed to help out how do our troops know when yo interfear or not.
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 11:50 pm
by Hannoir
What an astounding example of American Imperialism.
I'm so glad that people are benefitting from all of this. Isn't the US just great?
The fantastic buildingin Iraq must be a shining beacon of what all Iraqis should be aspiring to achieve.
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:54 am
by Katharine
It's nothing new, when we were in West Africa more than thirty years ago it was well known that the US Embassy in Togo consumed more electricity than the rest of the country combined. They will NEVER learn!
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:23 pm
by Tim_MaA_MidB
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:15 pm
by loringa
Everybody's got to live somewhere and, regardless how one may view the invasion of Iraq in the first place, US aid and assistance is absolutely essential for Iraq at the moment. It needs to be administered from somewhere and realistically that somewhere is Baghdad. As I remember it, the drive for a new build was because all the buildings previously occupied by the US mission in its various guises were being handed back to the new Iraqi administration. The British Embassy, on the other hand, relocated from its traditional home in Baghdad's diplomatic quarter in Sep 03 to Uday's former palace in the grounds of the Presidential Palace and, I'm pretty sure, is still there (nice house - I used to live there until the Embassy kicked me out).