This is my first post. I've been lurking for years.
Got into this while serving in the Iraq sandbox in 04.
Back then, I heard that it might RV at the rate before the war which was $.33. My vision was to payoff my mortgage. Now the possibility of walking away from my job or at least being able to make different work choices is appealing as we discovered over the years that before the war meant before sanctions and much higher rate. BTW for the guy who keeps saying Afghanistan sucks, you maybe onto something.
I wince a little when I read posts from people who have been in this for a year or less and are bumbed that it hasn't happened yet. I will sit on my Dinar until it either RVs or falls into my Monopoly box. This is a long term (until it happens) investment.
I've been reading posts from new people the last few days bashing the idea that an RV might happen. Have they read the news articles over the years? Have they read the interview transcipts from the Iraq political figures? Seems not.
I wince because they spout un-informed opinions.
Does it seem to anybody else that the numbers of newbees getting on telling us this will never happen has increased in the last few days?