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Catch22Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 10:12 PM
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Wow, this is royally f'd up!
http://betoniraq.com

A few years from now, you see a program on A&E portraying the lives of average Iraqis. You see people drinking locally bottled, genuine Pepsi Cola; not the ersatz they'd been consuming for years. They are buying their cars from Baghdad Mitsubishi.

You discover that things are going well enough in Iraq to have raised the value of the the dinar to one US cent.

Your $2100 purchase would now be valued at $20,000.

If the dinar were to climb to a dime, you've got two hundred thousand dollars in your closet. What if it were to reach a dollar? Or rebound to it's peak of over $3.00? Do you dare continue to keep your dinars in the closet?
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bullimiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 10:15 PM
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1. of course they would have wiped out the dinar and created a new
iraqi dollar. and the dinars would be worthless.
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Catch22Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 10:19 PM
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2. I was thinking the exact same thing
Does the creator of this site expect you to believe that all the money with Saddam's face on it will have any actual value...other than novelty? What a dipshit. I bought some Iraqi dinar in Jordan in the mid 90s. It was worthless then too. I think I bought ID1000 for like 5 bucks. Where does this moron get his info?
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SnowGoose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 10:31 PM
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3. The author is using one of the oldest manipulation techniques:
the appeal to greed. It's also the basis of get-rich-quick infomercials, phishing scams, and the 1980's.

"If the dinar were to climb to a dime, you've got two hundred thousand dollars in your closet. What if it were to reach a dollar? Or rebound to it's peak of over $3.00? Do you dare continue to keep your dinars in the closet?"

OH MY GOD (!!!), better get in RIGHT FRIGGING NOW. Not a moment to lose... rich rich rich. Remember Daffy Duck in that giant clamshell? Mine mine mine.
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