Argentina defaults on $4 billion payment to IMF

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by spejic, Sep 10, 2003.

  1. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
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  2. Richth76

    Richth76 New Member

    Jul 22, 1999
    Washington, D.C.
    We should give them $4 billion to send some troops to Iraq. That figure is a little more than a months expenses for the President's Iraqi board game.
     
  3. argentine soccer fan

    Staff Member

    Jan 18, 2001
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Club:
    CA Boca Juniors
    Nat'l Team:
    Argentina
    Go get the money from Carlos Menem.
     
  4. bert patenaude

    Apr 16, 2001
    White Plains, NY
    Amen to that. The rich steal and the poor pay.
     
  5. Ian McCracken

    Ian McCracken Member

    May 28, 1999
    USA
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    SS Lazio Roma
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
    Or, maybe we should send them some of the countless billions of dollars that Saddam raped and pilfered from the Iraqi people over the last 25 years. But, I guess you would never see things that way since you are blinded by your hatred of Bush.
     
  6. NGV

    NGV Member+

    Sep 14, 1999
    It's now being reported that there's apparently an agreement with the IMF, and that Argentina will be making its debt payment. No big surprise there - as far as I can tell, most people expected the issue to be resolved well before penalties were due to be imposed next month.
     
  7. Richth76

    Richth76 New Member

    Jul 22, 1999
    Washington, D.C.
    You're so misguided I can't believe I'm responding. I guess I should just count myself lucky I can still see what's in the kool-aid before drinking it.

    Our country has debt exceeding 1/2 a trillion dollar. What's another $4 billion to help our friends to the south out? A drop in the bucket.
     
  8. SoFla Metro

    SoFla Metro Member

    Jul 21, 2000
    Ft. Lauderdale, FL
    That's the money we're supposed to be using to rebuild Iraq. Except there isn't enough of it.

    Please try to keep up.
     
  9. Richth76

    Richth76 New Member

    Jul 22, 1999
    Washington, D.C.
    Atleast give him 72 hours.
     
  10. Ian McCracken

    Ian McCracken Member

    May 28, 1999
    USA
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    SS Lazio Roma
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    Italy
    Well, if your guys' hero Saddam had used that money to rebuild Iraq in the first place and not terrorizing the world then maybe we'd have the $4 billion to help out Argentina. See how not ousting dictators has a trickle down effect on the world?
     
  11. Nogra Rover

    Nogra Rover New Member

    Mar 30, 2000
    Bethesda, MD
    Maybe when we find Saddam he'll forward to Argentina all that aid Reagan gave him in the 1980s.
     
  12. Ian McCracken

    Ian McCracken Member

    May 28, 1999
    USA
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    SS Lazio Roma
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    Italy
    Or Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski in the 70s, who started the whole mess.
     
  13. Garcia

    Garcia Member

    Dec 14, 1999
    Castro Castro
    Helicopters and Argentines don't mix.
     
  14. Richth76

    Richth76 New Member

    Jul 22, 1999
    Washington, D.C.
    This reminded me of a really old derragatory joke a dead uncle once told me on why the Italians never win a war. But I digress.
     
  15. SoFla Metro

    SoFla Metro Member

    Jul 21, 2000
    Ft. Lauderdale, FL
    Please try to keep up. HE DIDN'T HAVE THE MONEY. Apparently he'd given it all to Donald Rumsfeld in the 80's to buy weapons. Which we can't find. Anywhere. At all. Even though we said we knew where they were. By "we" I of course mean "George Bush" and "Donald Rumsfeld"
     
  16. SoFla Metro

    SoFla Metro Member

    Jul 21, 2000
    Ft. Lauderdale, FL
    Interesting. When I do a google search on Carter & Hussein, I get pictures of both of them, but not together. When I do a search fo Brzezinki & Hussein, I get nothing at all. When I do a search of Rumsfeld & Hussein I get

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  17. argentine soccer fan

    Staff Member

    Jan 18, 2001
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Club:
    CA Boca Juniors
    Nat'l Team:
    Argentina
    At least one left winger appreciates the American President

    Argentine president Nestor Kirchner grateful to US president George W. Bush

    http://ar.news.yahoo.com/030912/7/8knv.html

    'US President George Bush congratulated this morning chief of state Nestor Kirchner for the accord reached with the IMF, while the Argentine mandatary expressed his 'recognition and gratefulness' for the support that he gave throughout the negotiations.'
     
  18. Northcal19

    Northcal19 New Member

    Feb 18, 2000
    Celtic Tavern LODO (
    Saddam Husein isn't my hero.

    In what way was he "terrorizing the world"?

    How does his ousting financially 'trickledown', other than to Halliburton, I mean?

    This post makes no sense.
     
  19. Ian McCracken

    Ian McCracken Member

    May 28, 1999
    USA
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    SS Lazio Roma
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    Italy
    Oh, I don't know, ask the Kurds, the Iraqis, and the Iranians. Also, ask the Americans and any others who lost people on 9/11 since terrorist mastermind Mohammed Atta met with Iraqi agents in Prague beforehand.

    P.S. Halliburton has no contracts in Iraq.
     
  20. Ian McCracken

    Ian McCracken Member

    May 28, 1999
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    Italy
    Check out
    IRAQ HISTORY, 1980.
     
  21. Nogra Rover

    Nogra Rover New Member

    Mar 30, 2000
    Bethesda, MD
    I assume you know their subsidiaries, such as Kellog Brown and Root, do.
     
  22. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    > Oh, I don't know, ask the Kurds, the Iraqis,

    Both of whom were oppressed by Saddam decades ago, without any opposition by the US administrations - including some of the very same people running things now.

    > and the Iranians.

    Whom Saddam fought at our urging, and against the advice of such humanitarians as the dictator of Syria.

    If these things make Saddam a moral hazard and worthy of being destroyed, what do you think it says about the United States? If you go anywhere on Earth and ask who the greatest threat to the world is, they all come up with the same answer. Why do you think that is?
     
  23. Footer Phooter

    Jul 23, 2000
    Falls Church, VA
    Wasn't this disproven?
     
  24. Ian McCracken

    Ian McCracken Member

    May 28, 1999
    USA
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    SS Lazio Roma
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    Italy
    1. It says sometimes we need to go in and clean out some messes from our policies that went awry.

    2. Envy/Jealousy?
     
  25. Ian McCracken

    Ian McCracken Member

    May 28, 1999
    USA
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    SS Lazio Roma
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    Italy
    KBR won a COMPETITIVE bidding process in 2001 to provide the military with services. KBR, by the way, was started by George Brown, a once powerful figure in Democrat circles.

    And, why shouldn't Haliburton be involved over in Iraq. They are the world's largest company at what they do in oil maintenance services. Their chief competition is a French company, I believe. A French company should receive the contracts over an American one?
     

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