Author Topic: It's Saddam doing the begging... (Read 544 times)

Dos Equis · « **on:** June 26, 2006, 12:18:00 PM »

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4001454.html

I have an idea. Let's chain Saddam to a MH-6 Little Bird, and dangle him upside down about 40 feet under the heli. The heli will race down streets at 45 feet, keeping Saddam off the ground at about 5 feet off the ground.

The heli will scream around the streets of Baghdad and anybody who busts Saddam open with a baseball bat gets to "win" and be pronounced President of Iraq.

We'll call this game "Iraqi Pinata".

His lawyer thinks by saying he can stop the bloodshed he can spare his life. No such luck. He gets the chair, and will finish all bloated and charred like his two sons.

lukster · « **Reply #1 on:** June 26, 2006, 12:27:13 PM »

"Iran is the enemy of Arabs, Islam and the United States, and the only person who can stand in the face of Iran is Saddam Hussein,"

I'm pretty sure we'll level Iran with nukes before asking Saddam for help with them.

john9001 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 26, 2006, 12:52:26 PM »

i'm pretty sure you will never see nukes used against anyone.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 26, 2006, 01:03:23 PM »

I think we should strip saddam naked, put a blindfold on him, and walk him NE over the Iranian border. It'd be hilarious to see what would happen to him.

lukster · « **Reply #4 on:** June 26, 2006, 02:02:59 PM »

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Originally posted by john9001
i'm pretty sure you will never see nukes used against anyone.

I'm certain that I hope you're right.

weaselsan · « **Reply #5 on:** June 26, 2006, 02:14:25 PM »

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Originally posted by john9001
i'm pretty sure you will never see nukes used against anyone.

I think your about 45 years late...the Japanese may dispute that.

Hawklore · « **Reply #6 on:** June 26, 2006, 05:48:39 PM »

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Originally posted by weaselsan
I think your about 45 years late...the Japanese may dispute that.

That was atomic, not nuclear.

However, when talking about energy level or physics, nuclear denotes the dynamics of particles in the core of an atom, including the protons and neutrons.

When talking about energy level, physics, or chemistry, atomic denotes the configuration of electrons that determines the chemistry of an atom and the dynamics of the particles in the outer layer, the electrons. In describing weapons, though, nuclear is a general term for weapons that release energy from nuclear reactions.

Atomic refers to the earliest and least sophisticated weapons, which use nuclear fission. Then there is thermonuclear.

Thermonuclear weapons use nuclear fusion, which results when the nuclei of hydrogen isotopes merge and release energy.

Fusion takes place only at very high temperatures, so thermonuclear devices first set off a fission reaction, which triggers the fusion; some weapons have two fusion stages, the first initiating the second.

In describing physics, atomic physics deals with the properties of atoms, which are mainly due to their electron configuration

Got the two? Good!!

storch · « **Reply #7 on:** June 26, 2006, 06:09:03 PM »

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Originally posted by weaselsan
I think your about 45 years late...the Japanese may dispute that.

er 61 chief

Shifty · « **Reply #8 on:** June 26, 2006, 06:14:13 PM »

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Originally posted by Hawklore
That was atomic, not nuclear.

Hey lets not split hairs, I mean atoms.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #9 on:** June 26, 2006, 10:02:57 PM »

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Originally posted by Hawklore
Atomic refers to the earliest and least sophisticated weapons, which use nuclear fission. Then there is thermonuclear.

So therefor there has never been a nuclear power plant accident, as all nuclear power so far has been fission, not fusion.

midnight Target · « **Reply #10 on:** June 26, 2006, 10:29:41 PM »

Hawklore

eagl · « **Reply #11 on:** June 27, 2006, 09:13:59 AM »

Except for the fact that from a practical standpoint, Saddam is actually pretty much correct in his assessment of the state of Iraq. Sure the US deposed a bloody handed tyrant, but an awful lot of the people Saddam wiped out were the same sorts of people who are currently running around Iraq blowing each other up. It takes willingness to rule with an absolutely firm hand to control that kind of religious and ethnic hatred, and I suspect that in the long run, Saddam will look like the Easter Bunny compared to whatever religious zealots end up running Iraq. The s h i_i t e s would kill or displace every last sunni and christian in the country and make the Taliban seem tame in comparision, if they had their way. It's pretty much their reason for existence.

On the plus side though, it's very unlikely that whatever band of religious nutjobs end up in charge of Iraq will end up with a modern chemical or biological weapons program anytime soon, and that's going to have to be good enough. Our best bet is to corrupt as many children as possible before we leave, by spreading our own WMD (weapons of mass Disney) in the form of crayons, educational coloring books, cheap internet access, school supplies, and the best products our modern media companies can produce. Some day those kids will grow up and get to help decide whether they keep living in mud huts or join the modern world, and having a childhood memory of something modern yet innocent may help them make up their minds.

Gryffin · « **Reply #12 on:** June 27, 2006, 01:21:51 PM »

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Originally posted by eagl
Our best bet is to corrupt as many children as possible before we leave, by spreading our own WMD (weapons of mass Disney) in the form of crayons, educational coloring books, cheap internet access, school supplies, and the best products our modern media companies can produce.

It is my understanding from an Iranian friend who has family in Iran that this was exactly what was happening there a few years ago. One of the youngest populations in the world coupled with internet access and other western influences and the country may have been heading for a major cultural change over the next 5 - 10 years as the older religious leaders left the scene.

Of course Bush and his retarded axis of evil speech changed all that.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #13 on:** June 27, 2006, 02:19:27 PM »

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Originally posted by Gryffin
It is my understanding from an Iranian friend who has family in Iran that this was exactly what was happening there a few years ago. One of the youngest populations in the world coupled with internet access and other western influences and the country may have been heading for a major cultural change over the next 5 - 10 years as the older religious leaders left the scene.

Of course Bush and his retarded axis of evil speech changed all that.

Yea I'm sure millions of iranian youths where typing away at the internet and heard the "axis of evil" remark and instanly threw away their laptops while shouting DETH TO AMERIKA DETH TO BOOSH!

Dos Equis · « **Reply #14 on:** June 27, 2006, 02:50:24 PM »

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Yea I'm sure millions of iranian youths where typing away at the internet and heard the "axis of evil" remark and instanly threw away their laptops while shouting DETH TO AMERIKA DETH TO BOOSH!

It's not far from the truth. When the hardline returned to power, they shut down over 90 newspapers and severely curtailed access to the Internet. There used to be a KFC in Tehran. Blue jeans were available to many at that time.

Now all the kids didn't start saying that, but the leaders started in with it. And the populace was cowed.

Author Topic: It's Saddam doing the begging... (Read 544 times)

storch