Will Iraq Become The U.S.'s 51st State?

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

It would be logical because America continues to pump in staggering sums of money into Iraq, patrols it at will with drones and thousands of "contractors," is actively involved in its political system and even houses its government officials in America's Green Zone, a tightly guarded city within a city in the heart of Baghdad. In fact the U.S. often ignores Iraq's sovereignty as it does whatever it pleases there.

But in the event Iraq doesn't become America's 51st state, using much of the same criteria, perhaps that honor could go to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Yemen, Libya or numerous other formerly sovereign nations. Sorry Puerto Rico, you aren't as qualified as many other nations the U.S. attempts to control. Sorry Haiti. Like Somalia, you are just too poor and chaotic.

(posted with permission from: http://sane-ramblings.blogspot.com/2012/01/will-iraq-become-uss-51st-state.html)


To learn more about the U.S.'s activities in Iraq, please see "U.S. Drones Patrolling Its Skies Provokes Outrage in Iraq," New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/world/middleeast/iraq-is-angered-by-us-drones-patrolling-its-skies.html?_r=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2

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Any more anti-war Dems still out there?

[rawbean]

1. I nominate Canada and Mexico.

Just add a taco and a Maple leaf to the stars.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

14. lol, It's been feeling less and less like Canada everyday

since 9/11, and since the Conservatives took power.

[tabatha]

2. Iraq is closer to Iran than the US.

I think Iraq does not want a US presence in its country at all.

[HopeHoops]

3. No - Newt's moon will.

[JaneQPublic]

5. +1 Good one! (nt)

[HopeHoops]

6. Great. Now I've got "Fly Me To The Moon" stuck in my head.

[emulatorloo]

7. With Sarah Palin at the helm.

Oh, wait, being governor is hard work.

[HopeHoops]

8. She'd give up half-way there and come back home to FOX Noise.

[Ikonoklast]

15. Newt's pasty, fat ass is pretty big, but I don't think he'll ever fit 15,000 people on it

in order to petition for statehood.

[HopeHoops]

16. He's got that many lobbyists up his ass already. What's the problem?

[provis99]

4. Israel is already the 51st state.

No I take that back. Israel is the 1st and most important state.

[XemaSab]

9. If we were to make these places states

It would be a lot more ethical and a lot more honest.

[Spirochete]

10. But their sports teams

would find the road games to be a real pain in the ass...

[11 Bravo]

11. They have a better chance than DC. Because, you know, brown is so much less threatening ...

than black.

[pokerfan]

12. A billion dollars a day for ten years

More or less. That arithmetic comes out to $3.65T, which is in the neighborhood.

Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, has stated the total costs of the Iraq War on the US economy will be three trillion dollars in a moderate scenario, and possibly more in the most recent published study, published in March 2008. Stiglitz has stated: "The figure we arrive at is more than $3 trillion. Our calculations are based on conservative assumptions...Needless to say, this number represents the cost only to the United States. It does not reflect the enormous cost to the rest of the world, or to Iraq."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War#Indirect_and_delayed_costs

[jody]

13. If having a powerful voice in congress, spending US taxes, & depending upon US to defend it defines

a state, then there already is a 51st state but Iraq can become the 52nd.