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#1 The RockStar

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 11:14 AM

It seems to me that there are a lot of people here that have no connection to Iraq .I would like to know Just how so many people have seen with there own eyes the things that are going on over there.

even if it was 20 years ago
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#2 Redwizard

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 11:17 AM

Not me.
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#3 Don & Rocio

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 11:23 AM

Hey Rockstar. Just what would you like to know? Im not there now but did 3 tours there in 03, 04, 06. i purchased my dinar in 04. I dont claim to have first hand knowledge of whats going on but I do have friends that are there now. They arent telling me anything of importance.
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#4 The RockStar

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 11:33 AM

Hey Rockstar. Just what would you like to know? Im not there now but did 3 tours there in 03, 04, 06. i purchased my dinar in 04. I dont claim to have first hand knowledge of whats going on but I do have friends that are there now. They arent telling me anything of importance.

Ya i just want to know if the people on here have seen what is really going on out there .OR if the just happened across the dinar on some investors web site
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 11:36 AM

Never been and I don't have plans to go either.....I know... Never say never.....
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 11:43 AM

I've had close friends/family in that region, but I haven't received any great information either.. Just speculation with in the region if anything at best.
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 11:49 AM

U.S. Marine Corps

Alasad Iraq 2/04 to 9/04

I bought mine while I was over there

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 11:51 AM

Been there, have friends there now....the only one's that "know" ain't sayin....if you're looking for specific information as to when and how much all I can tell ya is hunker down and be patient. Its been said on here many a time that our "clue" will be on CBI, and NO disrespect to anyone, but you will see it there before you hear it anywhere else, IMO.
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#9 The RockStar

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 11:55 AM

Been there, have friends there now....the only one's that "know" ain't sayin....if you're looking for specific information as to when and how much all I can tell ya is hunker down and be patient. Its been said on here many a time that our "clue" will be on CBI, and NO disrespect to anyone, but you will see it there before you hear it anywhere else, IMO.

I have been here since may 03'
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 11:55 AM

1st Gulf War, 2nd Gulf War, then 4 years as a contractor, running convoy security, have Iraqi friends I try to keep in touch with, all they soon is soon, but they been saying that for years.
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 12:00 PM

First gulf war British Forces, 26 months after the second war British Forces.
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#12 The RockStar

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 12:15 PM

I doubt most people have. So what. The point is what? I've never been to a slaughterhouse yet I still buy steaks. I've never done business with dozens of companies yet I own their stock. I've never grown wheat but I still eat bread. I've cast a lot of votes in my lifetime yet never met a single candidate. What possible difference does it make if people have been to Iraq or not? It doesn't make the dinar any more or less legitimate as a currency.

Sound like you need to get more involved with where your money goes .The point im trying to make is don't go blindly in the dark on a promise from a person that dont know a thing about what is actually happing in any part of your life .
This is what has the country in the shape we are in right now .If more people got engaged 20 years ago in the economy . Maybe just Maybe we could have diverted the disaster,that is becoming of our economy .
Now I wont clame to know every thing about dinar. But i do know for a fact that it will reinstate this year .Perhaps very soon !!

The important thing to remember is there is no better way to get more money out of this than just going to the bank and cashing it in OR investing it back in Iraq.

If anybody tells you different they are trying to get in your pocket for a %...................Thats not :twocents: thats a fact.

1st Gulf War, 2nd Gulf War, then 4 years as a contractor, running convoy security, have Iraqi friends I try to keep in touch with, all they soon is soon, but they been saying that for years.

So you know what you have and i bet you dont get lead in to anything concerning you dinar

I think that even-though we have done our part for our country. Maybe we are just not finished yet. Because it seems that some of the good hearted folks on here need some guidance .

I think some of us should step up and get some of these scam (gurus) in to a new line of work .like picking up trash for the county .That way we can keep a eye on them .

Edited by The RockStar, 28 July 2011 - 12:08 PM.

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 02:42 PM

I drove across Iraq in 1973 with my folks on our first vacation in the Middle East together. Bought a cool onyx and brass lamp in the covered suque in Baghdad. Spent an afternoon at the ruins of Babylon. The people were very nice.

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#14 The RockStar

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 04:08 PM

I drove across Iraq in 1973 with my folks on our first vacation in the Middle East together. Bought a cool onyx and brass lamp in the covered suque in Baghdad. Spent an afternoon at the ruins of Babylon. The people were very nice.

Peace and Prosperity

Lets hope im able to take my kids there in the future the ruins at babel are still there Assume site and Abraham's house site still there also .
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 04:56 PM

I, myself, have worked in Iraq for 3 years as a Dept. of Defense contractor. I've worked at Camp Liberty which is west of Baghdad, and at the JMMT (Joint Military Mail Terminal) in both Camp Victory and at Camp Anaconda..which changed it's name to Joint Base Balad. So I can say with all honesty I've been to Iraq. This was from 2006 to 2009. I was working nights at the JMMT on the west side of the airport (BIAP) the morning they hung Saddam, and I was working the following night when they had the riots at the same prison when the general population of the prison found out that Saddam had been hung. That prison was about 1/2 mile from us and we heard that ruckus very clearly.
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#16 Munsch

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 05:33 PM

I have been here since may 03'


Was in green zone in 2007 before that some other places over there ... and since you still there put in a good word to get me hired back. :lol:
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#17 The RockStar

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 05:41 PM

Was in green zone in 2007 before that some other places over there ... and since you still there put in a good word to get me hired back. :lol:

You would have to come to Afghanistan now .And put on a blue laniard no more red........................
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 05:44 PM

Been there, have friends there now....the only one's that "know" ain't sayin....if you're looking for specific information as to when and how much all I can tell ya is hunker down and be patient. Its been said on here many a time that our "clue" will be on CBI, and NO disrespect to anyone, but you will see it there before you hear it anywhere else, IMO.

Agreed.
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 05:46 PM

Desert Storm: 8th PSYOP Battalion, 4th PSYOP Group, 1st Special Operations Command
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#20 Luigi1

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 05:51 PM

Twice as a contractor at Camp Liberty & Tikrit AB. Purchased my 1st 2 Million ID while I was deployed. Shipped it back with my issues to CRC Bliss.
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