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Post by Henrik on May 6, 2003 7:19:05 GMT -5
Just read the following:
Now those people at The New York Times must have a rather vivid imagination, or have completely lost their grasp of reality. I have carried in one briefcase in excess of $1 million (more like $1.5 million). Now if $1 million fits in one briefcase, then say it would take 900 briefcases to carry $900 million. I can’t see how it would take three tractor trailers to transport 900, or say 1’000 briefcases to included the Euros!!!!! I take it the person who wrote the article has never seen a large sum of cash…..
To give an example of the volume we are talking about, think of the standard box of white printer paper. Here one box holds 2’500 sheets of A4 paper. Each A4 sheet equals approximately 6 dollar bills, and so one box could hold 15’000 bills or $1.5 million. So for $ 1 billion it would take 666 such boxes. Now take a standard minivan. Your loading area is probably around 2 meters by 3, and 2 meters high. Each box is roughly 20 x 30 cm, and 20 cm high. As a result you can put 1’000 such boxes in a regular minivan, or a total of $ 1.5 billion! So, three tractor trailers to transport $ 1 billion…..
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Post by Danny Boy on May 6, 2003 7:40:51 GMT -5
And with the sanctions in place, how the fcuk would there have been any Euros in the " Iraq Central Bank" anyway???
Also, the only bank in Iraq is the Rafadhan Bank. The sad thing is, the Americans will believe it, as they have swallowed every other lie told about the Middle East by their media magnates.
I wonder if the same paper ever asks, if, and when, the Weapons of Mass Destruction, will be found
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Post by daSilva on May 6, 2003 10:24:54 GMT -5
I wonder if the same paper ever asks, if, and when, the Weapons of Mass Destruction, will be found C'mon Danny Boy, lets at least give the military inspectors some time to do their job.  ;D |
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Post by alexmd on May 6, 2003 11:49:16 GMT -5
C'mon Danny Boy, lets at least give the military inspectors some time to do their job. ;D loooooooooooool  |
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Post by worthless on May 6, 2003 12:08:57 GMT -5
This might clarify how Hussein has (err...had) all that Western money. Sanctions have nothing to do with it..... (This is from www.snopes.com - giving credit where credit is due) "Ever heard of Lagardere SCA? No? Well maybe because it's a French company. OK .. have you ever heard of Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S.? Probably not, but Hachette Filipacchi publishes some magazines you may have heard of. Those magazines would be Elle, Car & Driver, Women's Day and others. Now it's getting familiar, isn't it? OK, so we have Car & Driver which is published by Hachette Filipacchi which is owned by Lagardere SCA which is a French Corporation. So .. are we finished here? No, not quite. It seems that a man who has been the news quite a bit of late owns around two percent of Lagardere SCA. About $90 million dollars worth. His name? Saddam Hussein. " It goes on.... "A holding company named Montana Management owns about two percent of French media giant, Lagardere SCA, whose Hachette subsidiary includes magazines such as Elle, Woman's Day, Road & Track and Car and Driver. Montana Management, in turn, is owned by Saddam Hussein. " etc.... "His secret financial network is made up mostly of shell companies registered in tax havens by lawyers purportedly representing someone else. The hunt for Saddam's money has gone on for years, but his trove has proved to be well hidden and has defied the efforts of those who have searched for it. " There is more, but you get the point. I always do my own research. The media is looking to sell advertising time and newspapers, not "truth." |
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Post by Danny Boy on May 6, 2003 12:47:17 GMT -5
Worthless; Saddam having foreign currency is not the question, I am sure he has loads of dosh, he just would not be keeping it in a Baghdad Bank. And any Baghdad Bank would not have a 100,000,000 euros hanging around, as they were only legal currency 2 years ago and sanctions have been in place the whole time.
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Post by worthless on May 6, 2003 13:04:33 GMT -5
 Point made, Danny Boy. Just trying to help.
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Post by Danny Boy on May 6, 2003 13:24:11 GMT -5
Worthless; good research though.
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Post by glendo on May 6, 2003 15:24:59 GMT -5
Da Silva wrote: "cmon danny boy, lets at least give the military inspectors time to do their job" funny that the UN weapons inspectors werent given the same sympathy. |
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Post by RacerX on May 6, 2003 22:02:41 GMT -5
Well...this seems as good a place as any, to start...LOL. Wuff... Hey Glendo, The UN inspectors had 12 freaking years, give the military 12 weeks, OK? LOL... Anyway, if they found WMD, would any of you believe it? ROFLMAO... Henrik, great point! 3 tractor trailer??? I saw them load "a couple hundred million" (what turned out to be about 600 million US) on a crate, onto a C-17...took a forklift! ;-) Looked pretty impressive  Wuff, I've been in a vault a few times, and actually curled a quarter of a million in hundreds...LOL, my kind of workout! Oh well...  GREAT to be back at SC!!!! Later, RacerX |
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Post by greg99 on May 7, 2003 3:29:35 GMT -5
GREAT TO HAVE YOU BACK!!!!!
I was about to delete my membership at SC in solidarity with you
The day is now looking again like a beautiful day.
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Post by JWK on May 7, 2003 5:40:04 GMT -5
Hey Glendo, The UN inspectors had 12 freaking years, give the military 12 weeks, OK? LOL... I believe that the inspectors were ousted from Iraq in 1998 no? thats only 8 years, not 12.... slow and steady wins the race Besides, the US reports on WMD in Iraq are all just recycled from those very weapons inspectors reports... and the gaps filled with speculation. the unnacounted-for anthrax is dead... it has a tiny shelf life in it's slurry form(the only form Saddam had the means to generate) and is not nearly as potent as the powder form... But the military has found weapons of mass destrution! does nobody remember the barrels of sarin nerve agent that was hailed as final proof of WMD's in Iraq!?... ...oh, thats right, that was rocket fuel ...but thats just me being a cynic(sp?) Really, he(saddam) most likely did have them when the US was saying he did, but if so, the smart thing to do would be to destroy them. By the way... where is Hussain got to? There is suprisingly little in the news about his apparent escape... Anyway, if they found WMD, would any of you believe it? Sure i would believe it, but being the cynic(again...sp?) that i tend to be i would not blindly accept what i was being told without the inclination to look a little deeper. Anyways- Great to have ya back! |
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Post by RacerX on May 7, 2003 21:00:27 GMT -5
Thanks greg99...good to be back! ;-)
JWK, I don't think at this point, it really matters if they find them, or not. It's pretty obvious that those that dislike this country, will continue to do so regardless of what happens w/ WMD.
What's done is done. For some, it sucks...for others, it's a good thing.
As for believing the media...LOL, you're correct, it MUST be questioned...kind of like the headlines in a few Pakistani news papers during the brief war. My two favorite were:
1.) U.S. uses ATOMIC bomb on Baghdad.
(LOL, yeah right...and now our troops and everyone there are being exposed to nuclear radiation...this headline was printed during the first week of the bombing.)
2.) Russia sends troops to Iraq to assist Saddam. (This one was printed the last week of the war.)
One could make the media out to be pretty much a joke, just about anywhere you look! ;-)
My favorite new stories are those in the New York Times saying the French have supplied EU passports to Saddam's people that have escaped into Syria. This will allow them to sneak into Europe...LOL. I'm thinking why do they have to SNEAK? They should just hope on a 747 to Paris...LOL.
Oh well...it goes on & on & on & on & on...
later,
RacerX
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