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  • sack of bullshit. Unjust, bullshit war and troops eating bullshit food.

  • It has changed so much since I went there in 2002. We were living in tents surrounded by Hesco baskets LOL!!!

  • @BaconSnot

    If you wanna bitch about your job, maybe you're in the wrong branch. Your ass would not be in the field if it wasn't for the mechanic who fixed your helicopters, the logistics people who manage your food, and the personelists who do your paperwork.

    You may enjoy a badass job, but war has changed. I have other mechanics who have deployed and were shot at with AK47's on the flightline, sometimes have mortars explode feet away.

    Don't insult the people who keep your shit together.

  • looks like shit with a thin veneer of capitalism

  • They only showed 1% of the entire base, the rest is a shithole.

  • Once again everyone is getting rich from war!

  • "bagram air base is an american oasis int he middle of the Afghan desert".... r u effin kidding me??! wow....definitely not...I was there last year and it is far from an "oasis" lol

  • i was ther from may to july 2010, burger king is gone, pretty much every fast food joint is gone. i got my hair cut in that spa.

  • place kinda reminds me of the fair or a carnival

  • Everything in the locally owned shops are not even genuine and they are ridculously overspriced. The price on the items on BAF dont even come close to how much they are sold outside, so buyers beware do not buy from them nor take their word for the price or the genuity especially of the jewellery.

  • 7:00

    An Indian guy, selling a Cuban sigar, to an American soldier, fighting in Afghanistan... Capitalism at its finest. I am curious. How much money does a US soldier in Afghanistan make each month? Anybody knows?

  • @Troublesome2008 around 4000g a month for junior enlisted with dependants. Im one of them. However what really tans my ass is the guy who serves me breakfast or washes my laundry makes 150k a year if not more. Yeah our govt is doing great things wasting money on things the service members can do for a fraction of the cost. Or instead of paying billions of dollars for contractors give it to the guys on ground kicking in doors who have the real risk pay them a 100k to put life truly on line.

  • @gypman921

    Thanks for the reply! That's a lot of money for washing some clothes. But 4000 dollar each month isn't bad either. It's a good thing there's no draft anymore. You stay safe now.

  • @gypman921

    No hes probably making about 60 - 70k.

    Alot of the IT guys are making 100, 200k+.

    The same job a 25B in the army does, a civilian over there makes a SHITLOAD more.

  • @Mattixxg exactly heres a prime example bub.i talked to a shuttle driver who works for KBR when i got here to drive in a big ass circle for 8 hours a day he makes 9500 a month.100+g a year to pick up people at a bus stop. Makes me sick that a PFC or a SPC out there kicking in doors makes half that. its sickening to see our Govt pay billions of dollars to these contractors that pay theyre help huge amounts of money and then want to cut out our yearly raise saying that they cant afford 1.9% raise

  • @gypman921

    Well..you cant blame the contractors (I am one myself--ex army-74bravo at the time), but the govt can give out MASSIVE raises.

    I know someone whose making OVER 250k...thats insane man.

    Best bet is to get out and get paid.

    But i didnt know bus drivers made THAT much lol..i thought theyd be in the 60-80k range.

    And i thought kbr got the boot already.

  • @Mattixxg i dont blame the contractor at all but blame our govt for spending a ridiculous amount on the contracts. It just tans my ass that a 11b out there kicking in doors putting life in imminent danger is paid like shit versus the guy who drives the bus its just discusting..lol ohh well

  • @gypman921

    I agree and it isnt right. Im not sure why they wont but there must be a reason...not a good one either IMO.

  • @gypman921 i wish i made that kinda money, i met a guy from kosovo at the billeting office he made about 2000 a month or something just for sittinga round and bumming cigarettes to me lol nice guy though

  • Total BS about taking the food courts out. Everyone that goes there understands what the mission is. And if they think that little amount of space is going to make space for the surge of troops, that's a joke! You're talking about the size of a small town city block. Besides, these small things, and creature comforts help morale.

  • @SChamberlain1978

    Agree 100 percent.

    I was in iraq..and you always get some dummbass fucking new unit trying to be hardcore...but..it is a war. bagram looks like its got some impressive shops..when i was at victory, our shit wasnt this nice.

  • @Mattixxg lol i too was in iraq and victory, kalsu, liberty and biap which i been too. bagram is a shit hole the PX is a joke the d facs are small and dingy accept the airforce one its ok but all in all bagram is plain shitty. The haji shop is about a joke also overpriced and small its about the size of a shell mini mart gas station om inside. how do i know im there right now....lol... send me back to kalsu anyday

  • @gypman921

    Youve never been to Kandahar.

    That base is probably worse.

  • @Mattixxg my air crew that was ther said it smaller and there are tents no beehuts

  • Sometimes i see soldiers as mindless puppet killers, cool to see they seem normal.

  • @12GaugeLosAngeles

    Says the bitch that hides out in the usa...

  • shit, I wanna go to Afghanistan...but not for this shit...

  • seems like its time too make another major base imho. if were have 30,000+ troops american (not including from other nations) then we should have another base. but i can see why having a harley davidson shop is taking up useless space. but maybe when i get their in 2-3 years well have them back if we have more space. but i would rather be killing taliban members than eating a cheeseburger, thats why im joining atleast.

  • WOW! I was a U.S. Soldier (MP, 82 Airborne) deployed to Bagram from early 2002 thru 2003; we operated out of Bagram but did missions all over the country, even running down to Kandahar. I can't believe what I'm seeing in this video; its a GOOD thing but WOW. When we got there we had to put up our tents (GP MEDIUM's), had NO bathing/running water of any kind, no dfac, didn't have jacksheet! What we did have lots of landmines, UXO, rocket/mortar attacks, & firefights (usually about 0300 hrs). Wow!

  • wow 20 000. The radio guy with his weapon on the side!

  • Just like fucking America, they even outsourced the fucking people that cut our hair in a war zone, wtf?

  • They shouldent make this video avilable for kids and it needs age restriction for alot of people in here.

  • @cards0001 Who are you to say what youtube can or cannot alow? Of course my comment must mean i am a "KID" right? I mean a kid would watch this video and not be angered that corporations jump at any chance they have to make money, like the war in the middle east right? But no im just a kid reading these comments not knowing what the fuck im watching.

  • @AC130SPECTREGUNSHIP Well your right

    on that point and got to agree just the comment

    was push a bit to hard but if u mean it that way ok

    i agree!

  • @cards0001 Am I right shorty?

  • 0:30 wtf is a black guy doing afghanistan?

  • unbelievable how many ignorant effers comment on anything US does. A bunch of dumb, single minded , blind,morons, who wouldnt be approving of US no matter what we do.fffffffffffffffffffffffffff­ff uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

  • that is so cool lol

  • Hell some of these guys are going to the barber shop and don't even need a haircut. Cut your own hair fellas, it's cheaper, don't support aafes.

  • you know it takes an ignorant fuck to blame the soldiers. but what kind of man are you to judge someone for being a reservists? do you think that the taliban just kills active duty? you a dumb ignorant fuck that doesnt deserve the freedom that alot of people dont get the priveledge to ever coming back to. i guess you dont have the balls to do it or you wouldnt sit and bitch on the computer you fucking liberal piece of shit

  • well now all the cute girls are in the army i see

  • i second what you just said!!!!!!!!

  • why am i not surprised that the states have brought their multinational corporation shops to Afghanistan as well? Fast food and brand name shops, as the boys trade their lives for bullshit. Talk about the epitome of fascism...all they need to do is open their own news networks over their and the country will be theirs!

  • i bet there all fucking reservists there

  • Its like calling someone who goes clubbing rather than going to the church and oozing up on heroin and getting laid with a different person everyday a christian. Just because they go to church once a year and were born in a christian family doesn't mean there christian. That's kinda like calling a terrorist a muslim so they title themselves that, but really they are not muslim and aren't following it correctly. Terrorists that suicide just believe in a completely different fantasy.

  • Good thing we have this 14 year old on the case with the knowledge of the government!

  • these guys cant get while in service and duty right? damn that sucks... :(

  • Afghanistan - Total waste of Blood and Wealth

    US dollar is worthless paper at this point, the hamster US taxpayers are in denial.

  • get Canada one haha

  • something about shopping with a high powered fully automatic rifle really appeals to me for some reason

  • HAHAHA.

    They're 98% REMFs there. All pretend soldiers gettin fat eatin Burger King, then coming home telling everyone they're a commando.

    The REAL soldiers are out at a dusty FOB getting rocketed every night. Eating rations, DREAMING of coming back to an Airbase.

  • Oh man, I remember pulling a particularly nasty Convoy duty one time. When we got the FoB we found out that part of the convoy was essentially one of those mobile Pizza Hutts. I was like "we're risking our lives to deliver Pizza to the FoB?"

  • @BaconSnot

    You're absolutely 100% correct.

  • @BaconSnot Why don't you try it for a week if you think it's so easy? Shouldn't comment on things that you know little about. Especially since that's where troops ROTATE in and out of.

  • Yes, ROTATING to a FOB, where the REAL work is done. And YES, I haven't been to Bagram, I hear its a sunny vacation spot. KAF is just as bad, but at least its in a hostile province.

    And oooooh, a WEEK in Bagram? Shit that's LONG, but not quite as long as NINE MONTHS at MA'SUM GHAR. How about YOU shouldn't comment on something you know so little about.

  • @MagMag123

    Theres always dumbass people talking shit who have NEVER served or left the country for that matter who always shave an opinion.

  • @BaconSnot Are you even in the military? Do you watch the news? Bagram is constantly attacked, because it can't move. This is not like COD, there is no frontline anymore. You can be bombed or shot at any time.

    Why don't you take your ignorance somewhere else.

  • @goarmy176 I got my info about Bagram from some 101st Airborn guys I relieved (RIP in army talk) in Zangabad. But I guess living in a mudhut, getting re-supply from helos slingloads at 3am isn't nearly as hard as running out of pizza cheese. It was a treat for me to trade rations with Americans when we could, much less wing night at TGI Fridays. All Bagram or KAF worry about are Taliboners with 20 year old 107mm chinese rockets, who are lucky hit within 2 KILOMETERS of their intended target.

  • @goarmy176 Don't take my word for it, even Gen. McCrystal thougth those REMFs were getting too fat when he shut down burger king. I never heard so much bitching and complaining in my life. And to think, the grunt living in a hole outside the wire is getting paid the same as that same REMF ramming whoppers into his face. I guess life's hard everywhere

  • a wookie is from star wars

  • i get fobbits but what's a wookie?

  • they should not closed down that place.. he he.. let them have some sense of home at least..

  • that pizza looked nice

  • man that is awesome

  • they dersive it they work their ass off

  • i served in afghani land and i never once had the opportunity to get creature comforts like that. it as aimed towards the troops that dont leave the wire. it makes a ton of money - but its not open to afghans - only soldiers. Its not really there to exploit afghans it pays the forces a substantial amount to have the area leased - and serves as a morale boost or morale vacuum to those that are there.

  • @tyco969 what the hell, man i joined the army at the wrong time. shit, i got there when we lived in gp mediums and had pallets as floors. the fire bases were composed of wire and hesco baskets and the taliban were fatter than us; now its the other way around. either way, its good to upgrade as long as the job gets done. do you know how FOB Salerno looks like now? we used to call it fob stormy.

  • hey ya

  • I would just like to see all these boys home, arm the civilians and let them choose what they really want, step up security at home with all these extra soldiers and forget the mid east they'll sort out there own shit, and unless we are attacked by a nation or army stay the fuck out. if we suffer a terrorist attack bomb some huts and be done with it, a terrorist attack does not justify any war ever

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  • seriously wth????

  • Wasting Tax money for a inside job ?.Very nice.

  • sfca

  • Morale is really important to all troops, even in roman times, the soldiers would fight without pay for months on end, but if there wasn't any bread they would desert (risking capture and execution). General McChrystal is a fucking moron if his training and experiences haven't taught him this by now. His forces will be a sad, homesick, derisive bunch of malcontents, unwilling to focus. I say keep the mall and don't bother deploying yet more unneeded troops.

  • Soldiers dont need it to be more like home, if they do then they should go home, rather than waste tax payer money. its been 9 years now since 9/11 and wheres the head of bin lAden?

  • @nahyank

    I agree they should have got bin laden. But i heard he fled to pakistan which complicates shit a lot. At least they have driven out tons of al qaeda from afghanistan and they are battling the oppressive taliban.

  • Of course, if they stayed home and out of other people's countries none of this would be necessary in the first place. If they want comfort, they should go back to their homes. I hope they all get a taste of the reality of a real war and forget about being comfortable. Only Westerners would entertain this. They are in the middle of a war zone where it's do or die. What are they getting massages and fast food for? They do not understand anything. What a complete waste of life and resources.

  • Why don't you get a "taste of the reality of a real war" and then forget about being comfortable..I'm sure that you would absolutely love it. And no, it is not a war zone where u must "do or die". Wars of Counter-insurgency are, by nature, slow and mingled with civilization. When you say "they do not understand anything", I'd like to know...what should be understood? They are in this for a long haul game so why not have a central base where one can relax....does that upset you? hehe.

  • OMG did he say pakis & russians,

    how dumb is the U.S.Army, and where is carls jr & jack in the box damn it.

  • whats wrong with employing regional people to work on the military base, they have afghan civis working in/around the base aswell.

  • @ samandcass

    OMG are you troll'in thay are all spy$!

  • believe or not man, not every afghan is crazy bomb toting madman,.

  • tax money ?

  • war against terrorism?

  • Gees if Hillier was still incharge of operations in Afghanistan closing this down wouldn't happen, he actually understood that soldiers need these few creature comforts just to keep them sane while they're over there and not miss home so much for the 6-12 months they're out there.

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  • Its disgusting how... commercial war is.. burger king, tim horton's and popeye's in a war zone? There's a line they're crossing that's going from comfort to capitalism... they're just rubbing it in our faces...

  • unless your gonna put a uniform on why don't you shut the fuck up

  • It's probably wrong to.. provoke you but whatever, here goes. What is so wrong with voicing my opinion? You don't think there's a difference between this(buying motorcycles and having fast food joints that the middle east has never heard of before) and a R and R? You don't think that those places are there to make money? You think they're there to make the soldier's feel comfortable? How can you be so ignorant as to tell me to shut the fuck up?

  • their there to fight a war not buy motorcycles lol...

  • Once the United states takes out their burger kings and popeyes foodchains, theyll start placing more american troops into afghanistan. Its the american plan to take over a weaker country, they might be taking out all these commodities now but in 2 years , all these fast food chains, and money making businesses will all be back making double their money, back to the cycle of corporate greed that got us here in the first place

  • @lance197810

    im loling right now, your fucking wrong man.

  • @lance197810 i was there lance those "corporate" places where there for the troops morale and to let us get just alil bit of home that you miss so much when your there. you'd be wishing for the same thing in a bunker when you hear a mortar go off and believe me you'd know what i was talking about if you where actually there.

  • @lance197810 THE JAPANESE, GERMANS, KOREANS, IRAQIS, AND AFGHANIS ARE A PROUD PEOPLE. THEY WERE NEVER COLONIZED. THEY KICKED ASS. BUT THEY DID SOME EVIL SHIT AND GOT STOMPED. NOW THEY ARE PEACEFUL AGAIN.

  • Fresh produce, carrots are less then a $1 a pound.

    Are poor are fat because they get so much money they can buy perpacked junk instead of having to cook a heathy meal.

    I'm poor by American standards. So I know the cheapest way to eat and it's to get the basic stuff and cook.

  • @Elk4758 waa waa waa... let me call you a waambulance...

  • Right lucky soldiers in KAF have this "comfort"... but we guys in FOB we have 2 or 3 chances to get in KAF in 6 months, is it worth it? not really.

  • oh i almost forgot. Muslimafghan1, take some of your taliban buddies with you.

  • muslimafghan1 shut the fuck up! I'm Canadian and I don't agree with the Americans being in afghan... but the taliban are the cowardly murderers. They poked the bear on 9/11 and know they deserve every thing they get.

  • holy shit bet the boys in previous wars wish they had the luxuries they have in this war.... don't know why they'd want to close it all down? the more comfortable the soldiers are the better.

  • runner784,

    animals are americans, you know why because your vile and cold murderers. everyone on this planet is aware how horrific and disgusting you and your government is.

    we afghans will send those burger kings and pizzas in the bin bags that we are going to send your stinking bodies back to your homes, taliban will prevail because americans are terrorists, americans are tortureres, americans are baby killers, americans are vile, yet you claim about civilisation!!! how ironic

  • Hahaha...Now shud da fug up ...!!!!!

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  • muslimafghan1, blow yourself up. You'd benefit this world greatly by doing so :)

  • You're such a massive hypocrite.

    America is far from perfect. We know this because of America's Free press and Free Speech!

    In a Taliban world you could be beaten for not having your hair cut right! And forget about saying what you may think.

    But what I really hate worst about the Taliban is that they have raped woman and children in Afghanistan to shame those who don't capitulate. And the Kicker is they do it in the name of Islam. The Koran does not give permission to do this!

    Hypocrite!

  • @hitgong That's true its like calling someone who goes clubbing rather than going to the church and oozing up on heroin and getting laid with a different person everyday a christian. Just because they've gone to church once a year and were born in a christian family doesn't mean there christian. That's kinda like calling a terrorist a muslim so they title themselves that but really they are not muslim and aren't following it correctly.

  • what language are you speaking again?

  • Just the Americans stay here? Where do they house the Elite Canadian Troops ??lol

  • all this video did was give me a craving for popeyes chicken, ...man, that looked so good.

  • they;re here to fight

    not shop

  • OMG Didn't anyone see SUPER SIZE ME?

  • congrats

    this is the start of american civilization on afghanistan

  • @runner784

    oh so this is the civilization?

    getting fat and eating only burger king and big mac?

    and electing president like bush 2 times this is the civilization ? if this is the civilization then i would say the whole world would wanna live uncivilized

    is this civilization bombing ppl killing ppl ?

    invading their land and stealing their resources ?

    and forcing ur way of life upon them?

    and butchering them ?

    if this is the civilzation i wanna know what is the uncivilization

  • unciviliaztion is to live like animals

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  • very good vid, i agree about closing em all down due to culture differences but keep the burger king, some person will eat there and love it, and the troops love it :D

  • Afghan Apparel! Awesome !

  • haha burgers and fries are cheaper than pasta and salad? lol not in north america. north americans are forced to eat themselves fat... i'll have to remember that one lol

  • wow really? then why is American Soldiers adminstiring aid in Haiti? Why do countries always call on America for aid or military support?

  • @808bourn11 Half of them don't call they are offered to be helped. Like the middle east.

  • @808bourn11 You're wrong there, countries do not call on America for aid, it's the other way around. America offers their aid, even though they're trillions in debt. Does this makes sense? Why do they do this you ask? It's US agenda to offer aid to a country that has just suffered a crisis, so they can lend them money at high interest rates which can never be paid back, when that happens, US will ask for a precious resource in return for the debt owed & establish themselves in that country.

  • you stupid dick ridin mindless piece of shit!

  • Why don't I see any Marines wandering around there? Because we work for a living!

    No I'm just messing with you guys, mad respect for my brothers and sisters in all branches of the forces.

  • oh how fun! but they'll probably remove everything once (if) they leave. no BK for afghans : (

  • be all you can be ;) 2 be continue, part of the mind control brain washed propaganda world deception...

    Peace :D

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  • so now they are spreading bullets and hamburgers in afghanistan both of which are unhealthy

  • TX and Pentagon Shooter were Classic black flag attacks with propaganda to demonize 9/11 Truthers and Tea Partyers - They WILL IMPOSE MARTIAL LAW THRU FALSE FLAG ATTACKS LIKE THESE - They will incite riots and start to turn the American public against all 9/11 Truthers, Tea Partyers etc. - Problem reaction solution - So now martial law sounds pretty good to the American public in order to get more security -

    Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty! - Proverbs

    See NWO Solution

  • Makes me think of how fast Cancer spreads ?? I wonder why...?

  • this whole illegal invasion is a fuc*ing disgrace...

  • It was UN sanctioned, I think you are mixing Iraq up with Afghanistan.

  • @Williyf the UN is a joke...

  • I hope to god they change the UN, its shit

  • Your personal opinion on the UN is irrelevant, your statement of "illegal" was my only qualm. The UN is the body which dispenses international justice, and as such if the UN sanctioned the invasion than it cannot be internationally "illegal."

  • well its well known that the UN is a dodgy entity, its funny how very few ppl know that 'b4' 9/11, the U.S army was basically already in afghanistan........the fact is that in these troubled times ppl believe 'conspiracy theories' because they make a hell of alot more sense than the offical dodgy facts we are fed daily....

  • This is not how you win hearts and minds of the people. The soldiers are living in a different world.

  • Look at all these Pinoy swervants that have...history never changes for the Philippines does it. It's the exact same today as it was in 1898.

  • I don't know why viewers are so surprised; they did the exact same thing during their experience in Vietnam, mimicking familiar comforts from home they wouldn't have otherwise gotten. It's a form of temporary pseudo-colonialism.

  • Agreed.

  • Quite true and 'nice one' for the description.

    "" a form of temporary pseudo-colonialism ""

    Brilliant.

  • disgusting

  • ghold on so i invade a country to brag about this shit unhealthy fried chicken

  • wow here comes america number two, fuckers! nice job america

  • what the hell are 20k soldiers doing in one base...And its a disgrace that these "soldiers" indulge themselves while the real soldiers are being killed in outposts that are undermanned.

  • and fucking rodger bro

  • Typical of a "ring knocker" to ruin the morale of the troops. General Mc Crystal should be retired. He is typical of the "know nothings" we had in the Nam. Sitting on his ass in a nice secure bunker while he takes the morale boosters from the troops! Ass Hole!

  • im curently deployed and i agree 100% its the small things that get us by its bad enough we do 1 yr rotations thats filled with chaos and stupidity but to take the small comforts like this away insane, i dont eat alota fast food and im not a fatbody!! but yeah i agree he is aknow nothing

  • yup lets just live in Afghanistan for 100 years.

  • I was waiting for the tour of the Torture Chamber there but I guess thats only for the higher ups...

  • I am M.O.B.ing in 6 days and that's where I will be and this video has been a huge help!!!!Thank You

  • I hope to see many more such videos. I certainly hope they do not down-size services; this is a much needed morale booster.

  • 5000 acre morale, welfare, and recreation booster.

  • Oh, wow, this is just like what Romans had (entire villages made for Roman soliders) in occupied territories ... before the Roman Empire fell.

  • Great documentary... A+ for Journeymanpictures...

  • ehh, I didn't see any Leatherneck Marines hanging out in pussy town.

  • i feel sad for American citizens, how u can spend billions of dollars yearly on military, give bilions to Egypt, Israel, Pakistan for political power but can barely provide basic health care system, can't provide for the poor in your own country.

    Truely America needs a change of regime, because i get headache jst thinking of this unecessary spending but have no money to take care of its ppl

  • What are you talking about, there aren't any real poor people in America. Are "poor" get tons of money that's why they are fat, people that are actaully poor aren't fat.

  • One of the problems is why they don't give us better tanks and stuff, The iraqi's get Abrahams ,and we don't plus our soldiers actually try to keep peace, that messed up man,

  • i hate stanley mcristal(careless spell)tbh he needs to retire cus half of his shitty plans r garbage

  • Creature Comforts are the things that keep morale up! Huh rah!

  • Only when there is no reason to fight.

  • well let's meet up and see if you tell that to my face send me a personal email with your address faggot let's see if your man enough

  • not to mention they have access to the finest Ganja & Hashish on Earth!

  • all the barbers are asian, that sux

  • holy shit, you in a bad acid trip hippy fuck

  • im so happy i subbed to this guy he has very interesting videos like i never knew are troops had the luxury to shop over there i thought it was just business all day everyday

  • The Taleban however are also babykillers, who have killed on American soil. It is not unreasonable to expect the U.S to retaliate on those who have killed it's sons and daughters. Also, I am not American.

  • May god have mercy.

  • Ahhhhh....American taxpayers paying for the BABY KILLERS to feed them and get their hair styled.

  • i wonder if they have a log flume ride or a ferris wheel!

  • americans, waste money for nothing, they have 700billion dollars to fight wars and mentain armie basis around the world, but have no money to run free health care, the thoughts of man is vain!!

  • @1Waddup: I agree. The U.S. government spends millions per month in Iraq and Afghanis