War in Iraq

[senna]

Well looks like were gona fight after all. Ready everybody?

[SC-Sp00k]

Lets just get it over and done with.

[weazel]

It wouldn't matter if Saddam kissed chimpys bellybutton in the middle of Mecca during noon prayer...

He's determined to steal their oil for his corporate cronies and cabinet thugs.

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by weazel
It wouldn't matter if Saddam kissed chimpys bellybutton in the middle of Mecca during noon prayer...

He's determined to steal their oil for his corporate cronies and cabinet thugs.

ROFL The Weazel show is the best!

-Sikboy

[john9001]

the USA does not steal oil , it pays $28 a barrel for it ( latest price on north sea crude)

[fdiron]

Try to see the big picture.  What happened the last time that some allied countries let a former enemy build up and violate its treaty?  World War II broke out, thats what.  

The U.S. lost 219 servicemen & women in the first Gulf War.  It was the first time in history where it was safer to serve in a war than it was during peace time.

The middle-east is a powder keg right now.  Sitting back and take an isolationist stance is not a good idea.

[hardcase]

stealing oil for his cabinet..you talking about Cheney right?



Always easy to be warlike when you are NOT the one going to die for some political reasons. If Saddam uses the WMD he is suppose to have, we back him into a wall, then you can shout hoodiddlyingray for us, as the body bags come rolling back.

hardcase

[Sandman]

Originally posted by fdiron
Try to see the big picture.  What happened the last time that some allied countries let a former enemy build up and violate its treaty?  World War II broke out, thats what.  

The U.S. lost 219 servicemen & women in the first Gulf War.  It was the first time in history where it was safer to serve in a war than it was during peace time.

The middle-east is a powder keg right now.  Sitting back and take an isolationist stance is not a good idea.

Would that be the big picture where the U.S. can no longer deter aggression?

[sshh]

How could "Iraq" side destroy US ships ? What kind of missile they were permitted to use and how it could be guided ?!    Or all this is just another BS to get more mooneys ?

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_10.html

The shortcomings in the U.S. military were pointed out in the Millennium Challenge exercise launched last month, Middle East Newsline reported. The exercise sought to simulate a U.S. attack against a Middle East enemy that resembled Iraq.

Officials said in the simulation U.S. naval forces were decimated by an Iraqi missile and weapons of mass destruction strike. The Iraqi side in the exercise used cruise missiles to overwhelm the U.S. Navy's GS radar and sink the entire simulated Blue Armada fleet of 16 ships.

[hardcase]

YeahShss

Let's send 100k boys and girls real close to saddam so that  he can kill em real easy like with any crude delivery system. If he is such a threat dont go knocking on his front door. Never attack where he wants you to..Sun Tzu

hardcase

[Tac]

"How could "Iraq" side destroy US ships ? What kind of missile they were permitted to use and how it could be guided ?!  Or all this is just another BS to get more mooneys "


Exocet missiles.


Ask the British how pissed they were when a couple of cheap argentinian fighters plinked a few into some of their frigates and sent a few ships to the bottom during the Falkland war.


Besides, if Iraq ever gets to shooting at ships, its most likely to just send an chemical warhead in the general direction, take an entire carrier group outta action if it cant launch its fighter planes 'cause the air is fulla poison.


(but then again, Baghdad will be glowing a few minutes after heehee)

[sshh]

I was sure that Exocet will not do much trouble for modern Aegis ships. Besides that I am not sure how Iraq could get in 65km range anyway. Some Russian missiles could penetrate it and are not so range limited. But it is not something to expect from Iraq.

[N1kPaz]

is cheap oil.

sorry but it is true.

bye Saddam

[fdiron]

Let's send 100k boys and girls real close to saddam so that he can kill em real easy like with any crude delivery system.

Come on, you've been watching too many war movies/drinking too much.  Even if the U.S. decided to throw out all of its doctrine and invade Iraq with just troops, most, if not all U.S. APCs and tanks have NBC systems.

[senna]

Just out of curiosity, any modern war experts know of a seige struggle that may resemble the possible Bagdad scenario? I imagine if they did end up fighting, the city would be blocked off and a siege would be underway?

what about all of the people?