actually i am on the right, raybanns on.

photo was taken by my mother in 1993 on the 31st of may.

its singaopre changi the a/c is a 767-300 when i was working with Qantas.

a/c was VH-OGG.

Originally posted by Hand87_5
Nice flight sim Monster !! 🙂

still think its flight sim??

now that i do like.
nice work Kabir. adds new meaning to up close and personal.

Originally posted by TTP
Monster 500,

The left/democrats here in the US and abroad are really trying to elevate the looting of this museum as an apocolyptic event that has destroyed the lives of millions!!! its so sad people who were against this war, who predicted doom and gloom, and probably secretly hoped that the US and England would fail, have been proven wrong!!so they are grasping at anything that would besmurch this victory.
Monster 500 tell me are you more outraged by the looting of this museum, or the fact that coalition forces have found tons of weaponry banned by the UN sanctions, soon the WMD’s will emerge, thousands of unmarked graves, thousands of political prisoners telling stories of torture and murder, women and children used as human shields, the discovery of $800 million dollars in Oil for food money, found in Saddam’s palaces instead!!!!do any of these small insignificant facts outrage you as much as the looting of the museum, your hypocracy can be smelled from across the Atlantic!!!

Saddam had to go, i am hot disputing that. i wasnt expecting the coalition to not come away empty handed. the less weapons of any nature on the streets anywhere the better i say.

the two grievences i have are the loss of innocent civilians and the looting which should and could have been prevented.

what ****s me is that the military made a concerted effort to conserve the oil ministry, but there was not adequate protection given to priceless antiquities or hospitals.

seems like a pretty big mistake to me.

Originally posted by drunkenmonkey
monster: i kno the money from the oil will be used to rebuild iraq but it’s still not enough….

yes it is a bad mistake for the pentagon for failing to protect all the civilian and cultural sites… but it’s not fully their fault…

1. they expect a bloody battle in baghdad, no one expect it to fall so easy like it did… i kno they managed to protect the oil infrastructions, but those are in unpopulated area and seized in beginning of the war…

2. after all it’s the iraqi people who looted the places, who would actually think they gonna loote the hopitals and musium? i mean it’s ok to loote the presidential palaces and govt buildings but hospital? i duno wut those people in baghdad are thinking….

the people have had nothing for so long is it any wonder that this kind of looting took place.

adequate measures should have been in place to protect certain infrastructure from this kind of stuff. the oil offices were well looked after.

gotta make you wonder dont it?

TTP.

the US govt was warned many times before invading Iraq that there would need to be some sort of protection for these museums.

i noticed they managed to protect the oil ministry offices with dilligence, yet the most important parts of western civilization have been raped, pilliged and plunderd.

this is a civilization that gave us the wheel, the calendar and so on. yet the US thought it more pertanent to protect the goddamn
f$%^&@ oil ministry. you cant seriously believe that may not have been a likely occurance in the US militaries eyes??

in some ways its even more of a disgrace than the civilian casualties.

most of the money for the reconstruction will come from Iraq’s oil profits. US govt even said this.

most of that money will be going into construction companies such as Halliburton, which has none other than VP **** Cheney as a director, or a former director i think.

in a round about way it is a war about oil profits, its those profits from the sale of oil that will finance the rebuilding of Iraq.

pity noone bothered to think of protecting the cultural heritage.

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