Get HOME DEPOT to BAGHDAD...show them Iraqis how we build/repair

[opihimoimoi]

Get Lowes too....

and Sears/Macy's as well...

Share our stores to rebuild the area....

Better to rebuild than to destroy...better to give hope than to promote death/misery...

Get Yale and Harvard to open campuses there...share our brains...

[Generic Brad]

1. They need at least a million cases of duct tape. n/t

[pooja]

2. And will you vollunteer your time to go help rebuild... when do the

soldiers leave, and the civilians arive to repair the damages?

[opihimoimoi]

3. I have a few skills which could be used there...unlike Bush, I can swing a hammer

use a planer, a jointer, a cut off saw, drill press, lathe, and band saw...

I can layouts, pour concrete, grind terrazzo, do water proofing, run tractors and payloaders.

I can spray paint, water proofing shit, and glazes for ceramics. I can set ceramic tiles, hell, I make ceramic tiles and sculptures...

I do design work, planning, and silk screening...

If the Gov't peeps call me...I would gladly go to help...

We need positivity over there....Bush has given them nothing of the sort.

[pooja]

8. I am so glad to hear that. It would be a brave move for us to ask

the Iraqi officials if they would allow a group of Americans over to help rebuild Iraq. #1. is asking, #2. is doing if wanted.

[opihimoimoi]

9. The word is POSITIVITY...sumpthin them Bushites know nuthin about

The answer is to do things positive....we start from there....

[pooja]

12. I know... I love to hear positive people here... some people at DU

are such gloom and doomers.. and then there are some that are like rays of sunlight... Thankyou for being sunshine.. it is so beautiful.

[babylonsister]

4. I thought that's why Halliburton was there-

And if not, why are they there again, making gazillions?

[opihimoimoi]

5. I don't see Home Depot there...yet....

[DianeG5385]

6. They need to fix New Orleans first

Then they can take the show on the road!

[opihimoimoi]

7. We got enough Home Depots, we can do both at once...lol

[Blue_In_AK]

10. They need to send in Ty Pennington. Ha.

Extreme Makeover - Baghdad Edition.

[mitchtv]

11. Put'm all on SSD and AFDC

it'll be cheaper than occupation and everyone'll be happy. Let the Indians open a few casinos and win some back

[opihimoimoi]

14. And send Martha Stewart too...get them homes built with some Bazzazz

air conditioned and energy efficient....nice floors and stunning furniture/elements/curtains/appliances.....why doen't we do this???at least start with a few homes to give the Iraqis Hope and a model....?

Because we are focused on the Negative...not the positive...

[darkmaestro019]

13. That's be like why I don't like to clean up my house.

It starts to feel pointless when it's destroyed again by morning........

[opihimoimoi]

15. Are you predicting its not gonna work?? and that we should continue Bushs plan?

[donsu]

16. don't be rude - the Iraqis know how to build

nt

[opihimoimoi]

18. No one said they don't know how to build...I said show them how we build

using....tools/material from places like Home Depot/etc....

I am sure they would wish upgrading their homes if they had the op.

[PaDem]

17. yep, democracy will explode throughout the Middle East........

just as you say.

[opihimoimoi]

19. Who said that???

[PaDem]

21. I'm in agreement with you..........

or I misunderstood your post. I read your post as to say that this war is about giving corporate America yet another leg up. I was agreeing, intimating that spreading democracy=corporate whoring.
Sorry if I misunderstood your post.

[opihimoimoi]

22. LOL, I understand....Peace building through positive projects are often

misconstrued/misunderstood...its no big thing...

[JCMach1]

20. Don't want to offend anyone, but you better send in thousands

of Nepalese and Indian construction workers...

In the Arab world (where I sit anyway, but also elsewhere), even simple DIY is considered very low-class.

[opihimoimoi]

23. To build ones own homes is low class....? Oh well...the obstacles are higher

tahn expected....but we should at the very least try...

[lumberjack_jeff]

24. Haven't they suffered enough?

I wouldn't wish Home Depot on anyone.