Anyone know of reliable numbers breaking down the costs of the 2003-2011 Iraq War, the post-war turmoil, and the 2015 Back to Iraq sequel?

Jeb Bush: ‘Taking Out Saddam Hussein Turned Out To Be A Pretty Good Deal’
AUGUST 13, 2015 http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeb-bush-saddam-hussein-good-deal
The quote was also reported on by The Daily Beast. Bush was speaking at a forum sponsored by Americans for Peace, Prosperity and Security at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, according to the website.

The Beast reported that Bush went on to say he didn't want to hypothesize about what would have happened if his brother, former President George W. Bush, had not ordered the invasion of Iraq, which led to the toppling of Hussein.

"Then that's back to the future and you could make a movie," Jeb Bush said, according to the Beast.

Bush has previously said "premature withdrawal" in Iraq created the void for the the Islamic State terror group.

The former governor has struggled, since announcing his candidacy, with questions regarding Iraq, the 2007 surge, and the role his brother played in the country after 9/11.

Meanwhile in boardrooms across America.

It really would have economically worked out, over the next couple decades, had Iraq turned into a flourishing nation full of oil and petrodollars.

Except then Obama said "eh dont care" and pulled the occupation force out that was holding the country together, handed it over to Khameini and Al-Baghdadi.

Oops, guess no more return on investment.

>>33160
Or the fact that the Iraqi government hammered out an agreement with George W. Bush that all US forces would leave Iraq in 2011 and President Obama honored that agreement.

The withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Iraq began in December 2007 with the end of the Iraq War troop surge of 2007 and was completed by December 2011, bringing an end to the Iraq War. The number of U.S. military forces in Iraq peaked at 170,300 in November 2007.

The withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Iraq was a contentious issue in the United States for much of the 2000s. As the war progressed from its initial invasion phase in 2003 to a nearly decade-long occupation, American public opinion shifted towards favoring a troop withdrawal; in May 2007, 55% of Americans believed that the Iraq War was a mistake, and 51% of registered voters favored troop withdrawal. In late April 2007 Congress passed a supplementary spending bill for Iraq that set a deadline for troop withdrawal but President Bush vetoed this bill, citing his concerns about setting a withdrawal deadline. The Bush Administration later sought an agreement with the Iraqi government, and in 2008 George W. Bush signed the U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement. It included a deadline of 31 December 2011, before which "all the United States Forces shall withdraw from all Iraqi territory". The last U.S. troops left Iraq on 18 December 2011, in accordance with this agreement. US Forces, in the form of air support, resumed operations in Iraq in June 2014, to defend it against ISIS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_of_U.S._troops_from_Iraq

- A graph of the US troop presence and casualties during the Iraq War.

>months of searching
>mp4 and not mkv
I spent a whole two minutes searching and found something with an open container format as well as being a BD-ROM rip in 1080p.

https://bakabt.me/158573-cat-shit-one-the-animated-series-bluray-1080p-ac3.html

>>33164
Thanks man... your google-fu is obviously stronger than mine. I should have clarified; I got the jap copy 1080p right away, english subtitles version has eluded even though I once had a copy of it in 2010.

But no loss as I had forgotten about the comix and I used to have those too and rather enjoyed them. Thanks for that!

(..let's see.. 0 peers, 0 seeds. Dammit! This is why I almost never torrent music). -sigh- i'll leave 'er on for a month hopefully I'll get it.

>>33166
That's a private tracker man there are 16 seeds but you need to register.

I'm upping to Megaz and will post link when done.

>>33170
https://mega.nz/#!PZ10RBoa!d1NYKbuECRCT2jshYyxRPSSUopidsJPcsrEBbV_AHrI

>>33170
>but you need to register.
You don't.

What did I just watch?

I would have been pissed if my parents took me to that.

Deargodwhatinthehellmyeyesarenowfulloffuck.

Thats rather horrifying.

Nice title change. That's been posted here before.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3117638/That-s-one-way-stop-children-having-sex-Creepy-giant-puppets-enact-child-birth-excruciating-bizarre-taxpayer-funded-sex-education-ever.html

>>33141
>The resident retard shitposting jew is being cyberbullied! Must be /pol/! It definitely cannot be that he's the worst poster on the site and should be ridiculed for every shitpost he makes!

Perhaps you'd be more comfortable on reddit?

>>33140

They're everywhere, you're just not wearing your special glasses that allow you to see them.

>>33142

You're not a "cyberbully", we're not teenagers. Sigh. Don't you have windows to wash or headlights to clean or something? Do I come knock the squeegee out of your hand?

>>33142

Also no I can't "spare a few dollars" so you can get some meth food.

>>33144
Congrats bro, you just become the newest member of the Opchan tripfriend stalker club.

People like Clio, Slavic, Brospeh, serv, Acid Man, Dece, Rimfire, Meplat and probably more Imma forgetting, all stalked by stalkers who called them the worst posters and never makes a good post and blah blah I got no life so I must focus on some random internet person blah.

As part of your membership you get a lifetime supply of whiny posts directed at you, a butthurt stalker of your very own, and all the moldy cottage cheese you can eat. Yum yum.


Seriously though, do people not have anything better to do then bitch about posters? I know the board has gotten slow but come on.

>>33146

>stalker
>stalking stalker
>inna zone

Blyad, suka.

>>33118
>A random shipment of explosives blew up in china.

Job well done CIA

http://video.weibo.com/show?fid=1034%3Adc65aafd8a97629626a8b7c27c9d38ff

wont embed, i know you have to click to play but trust me it is worth it


also i like locals saying it was military warehouse and gov media saying it was unspecified chemicals, first boom estimated at 3 tons of tnt second as 21 tons.

Looks suspiciously like fireworks.

>>33122
Jesus, I hadnt watched full videos, That second explosion is pretty wicked.

Again I reiterate, good job CIA. Or in light of having just seen the most recent mission impossible movie recently, You lucky IMF fuckers got out of there in the nick of time.

>>33122
and the video is gone

  "Pirates of the twentieth century" - Soviet fighter (USSR, 1979)
https://youtu.be/-mLkvdnPvGg
English dub is over the Russian audio and this is annoying.

Just off the top of my head, I was thinking of Sanaa Lathan's character in the first Aliens Vs. Predator movie. Yeah, the movie was not Oscar material, but it wasn't bad, and she did a wonderful job with what she had to work with. Black, female, action-movie star.

Anderson in Ender's Game was black, I don't remember her or Graff even having race mentioned in the book. It was a good casting call.

I think a lot of the problem is that roles are either written for characters that couldn't really easily be race-switched because they're written to have a certain background (How to make a lower-middle-class wannabe-soldier like Captain America black, without turning it into a racial commentary on 1940s Brooklyn?) , or that they're heavily (badly) stereotypical.

I haven't read the comics, was Iron Man's buddy Rhodes white? Wouldn't have mattered, really, and that was an example of a role that literally any race could have played, and played well. Same with Falcon. The Matrix was all over the place, and well-cast as well.

But then, you also have the Fast and Furious movies, which are diverse as hell, but they're all fairly stupid stereotypes, too. Big muscly guys, cars and hoes, lotsa booze, etc... It's not helping the situation when folks of Race B are acting in movies that make them all look like assholes or fools.

I don't have a problem with the Human Torch being black, I have a problem if that characterization turns, for lack of a gentler way to phrase it, into gangsta ghetto trash. It's the culture, not the skin color, and separating the two in film seems to be a very tricky thing.

I mean, look at the two Bad Boys movies. Black heroes, but instead of being cool, professional, and upstanding, you've got Martin Lawrence. Will Smith yelled a lot, but I'd be angry and yelling too, if I had to deal with that number of gunfights and an utterly fucktarded partner. But how do I, as a white guy, write a movie where there's a proper (let's say "equal to the demographic disposition of America") number of females and blacks, if the current crop of black actors is of a certain culture, but I'm writing a movie about some calm, collected scientists and soldiers dealing with an alien invasion?

I mean, I'm a few thousand words into a story about an alien invasion. Let's say the book (which I'll probably never finish, because I'm lazy as fuck) is a huge hit, and they want it adapted into a movie. Let's say that I'm not really the type to talk much about the skin tones of my characters, so the character of "Paul Stone, radioastronomer, audiophile, and all-around average guy who gets tapped to be on the First Contact team by his local gov't " gets played by a black guy. Easily doable, right up to the point where they start decidin

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From the first link.

>film lovers wanting to see change in Hollywood have the opportunity to vote with their dollars. So whether you’re supporting Michael B. Jordan in Fantastic Four or Meryl Streep in Ricki and the Flash, make your moviegoing bucks count for something this weekend.

Most film lovers and goers might want change but they want a good movie more.

Both those movies are just going by ranking alone fucking terrible. Really fucking terrible in the case of Fant4stic and average to bad for Ricki and the Flash. They are bad movies. Ricki and the Flash was apparently a poorly written Diablow Cody movie and Fant4stic was a jumbled mess made by some immature asshole. Also The Thing without pants.

They aren't bad movies because black Johnny Storm or because there is a vagina in the movie not about the Scarlett Speedster, they are just bad. And people shouldn't expect people to watch bad movies just because they have minorities or women.

If movies starring or made by minorities and women are good then it stands to reason if we carry the one, reverse the polarity on the proton couplers that those movies will have people watching them. People watch movies with Denzel Washington when they are good. People watch movies made by Robert Rodrigious and Del Toro when they are good and mostly stopped when Rob made shitty Spy Kids and shitty NotShirtlessShirtlessWerewolfBoy and RedheadLoliGirl. Oprah movies get watched by buttloads of people even if they rewrite history.

Most people watching movies don't give a shite if the main actor or actress is white or negroid or male or woman. Most people watching movies watch because it looks like a good movie or because they like the main actor/actress.

Now right now most big name actors and actresses are white. But they aren't big names because they are white, its because people enjoy their performances.

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>was Iron Man's buddy Rhodes white?

No. And neither was Falcon.

My only issue is when the actor, presence-wise, doesn't fit the role; Don Cheadle's a fine actor. For certain roles; "military man" is not one of them, IMO.

Same goes for Will Smith, Martin Lawrence & Jamie Foxx. None of them suspend my disbelief that they are supposed to be "action stars." I primarily see them as comedians.

Terrence Howard? Yes, I can see him as an action star/military man. Michael Jai White? Yes. Denzel Washington? Yes (and Goddamn if he hasn't played military men convincingly). Tucker Smallwood (Commodore Ross in "Space: Above & Beyond")? Yes.

im honestly sad that this has received no comments and according to youtube all of the times it ha been watched aside from one are me........

how did i fuck it up?

is it because i spelled friend wrong?

do i suck or is this site actually dieing outside of the DMZ?

/m/ is deadish, its a cool video.