Top Ten Reasons Why Iraq Should Be Our 51st State:

**eXosYn** · #1 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 07:59 PM

Top Ten Reasons Why Iraq Should Be Our 51st State:

We spend over $5.6 billion dollars a month in Iraq, which is more Federal aid than any current state is receiving.

At $5.6 billion dollars, we could pay each and every Iraqi $215 a month, ten times what their average income is now. How could they complain?

With an estimated 250,000 American citizens currently residing in Iraq it is already nearly half the population size of Wyoming.

Fighting would have to stop because the U.S. cannot declare war on itself.

We save time and money not having to draft up a separate Iraqi constitution since we already have one.

Baghdad is only 1400 miles further from Washington than Honolulu is.

Historically, we have added new states about every 50 years. We are due.

We reduce unemployment by creating jobs for English teachers.

Forget the oil. We need a state with a “Q” in it!

We made Alaska and Hawaii states.

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Stossel · 01-09-2008, 08:02 PM

Not to mention it's a beautiful tourist spot.

dancesintherain · 01-09-2008, 08:10 PM

Yay...51 states....
wait....51 goes to Puerto Rico....
Iraq can have 52

**Ristaron** · 01-09-2008, 10:27 PM

Don't forget that it's as barren as Arizona, and if you keep that patch of desert why not keep this one?

eLracho · 01-09-2008, 10:35 PM

I agree with Rist. In fact, whaddya say we replace Arizona with Iraq?

**Ristaron** · 01-09-2008, 10:52 PM

Because that would constitute losing ground, which the United States never does!!!

eLracho · 01-10-2008, 12:59 AM

Also very true... (Just like Canada doesn't want to lose the land that Quebec occupies? [reference to another thread])

**Ristaron** · 01-10-2008, 01:29 AM

Quebec happens to contribute a fair bit to the national economy, which makes it the opposite of Iraq (a drain on U.S. national economy). We don't want them to separate because they are not only part of our economy but also part of our culture. Canada has two national languages because of the huge Francophone population.

eLracho · 01-11-2008, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Ristaron

Quebec happens to contribute a fair bit to the national economy, which makes it the opposite of Iraq (a drain on U.S. national economy). We don't want them to separate because they are not only part of our economy but also part of our culture. Canada has two national languages because of the huge Francophone population.

Dude...I was just making a joke.

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Originally Posted by Ristaron

Yes, Quebec was always French. Those damn Francophones. And now they want to separate from the rest of us and have their own sovereignty (though, they want to keep our dollar and everything).
Fine, get lost. Just leave the land where it is, we still need that.