Those Missing Weapons of Not So Mass Destruction

[Nash]

Somewhere in Iraq:

In a major operation launched earlier today dubbed "Spartan Scorpion", hunrdeds of U.S. Army troops raided the conservative town of Fallujah west of Baghdad, searching for illegal weapons that intelligence indicated were stockpiled for use against U.S. forces.

The raids, involving more than 1,300 soldiers, began just three hours after a deadline passed for Iraqis to turn in their weapons. One of three task forces involved in the operation reported only a single arrest... of a man driving during curfew hours bearing a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

The raid against Fallujah followed an extensive action last week, dubbed "Operation Peninsula Strike". Soldiers rousted residents from their beds and detained about 400 people (60 of whom still remain in custody).

The troops, wearing night vision devices under a bright full moon, found no weapons.*

*Info boosted from the CNN website; lovingly spliced, diced, whipped and pureed by yours truly for maximum creamy kneejerk ire inducing goodness.

[SFRT - Frenchy]

If I were some top official, I would gladly place some weapons of mass destruction to make the American plublic opinion satisfied.

[GRUNHERZ]

Yes of course they put on a show for CNN, in fact the whole first gulf war was orchestrated by Ted Turner to make CNN the big name it is today...

[Pei]

*Info boosted from the CNN website; lovingly spliced, diced, whipped and pureed by yours truly for maximum creamy kneejerk ire inducing goodness.

I think the word that describes this is "chumming".

[-tronski-]

Heres a thought...

if Iraq has been supposedly been given it's freedom...does that mean that Iraqis can now argue to keep their rifles?

Especially considering some of the reasons people claim on this BBS alone for the right to have firearms  ie. crime, the right to defend yourself, and home are now especially prevelant in Iraq.

 Tronsky

[SirLoin]

According to Lazs "More guns = Less Crime"...So why not let the Iraqi's keep their assault rifles?

[Fatty]

Huh?  This isn't Europe.  Everyone can still keep aK-47s and smaller.

[Boroda]

Originally posted by -tronski-
Heres a thought...

if Iraq has been supposedly been given it's freedom...does that mean that Iraqis can now argue to keep their rifles?

Especially considering some of the reasons people claim on this BBS alone for the right to have firearms  ie. crime, the right to defend yourself, and home are now especially prevelant in Iraq.

 Tronsky

Hehe.

Saddam was such an evil opressor and dictator, that he was brave enough to give firearms to his opressed citizens, crying under his evil rule and willing so much to overthrow him.

OTOH, liberators from the Land of Free are shot at from every corner, and, to ensure cilvil liberties and freedom in new, better Democratic Iraq attempt to prohibit the posession of firearms.

Perfect logic.

Indeed, "Lie is truth".

[Fatty]

While it is tempting to try to make the ironic leap, it remains untrue.

I could, and would be stretching the truth even less, say that Iraqis under military occupation are currrently more free than Europe.

[Boroda]

Originally posted by Fatty
While it is tempting to try to make the ironic leap, it remains untrue.

I could, and would be stretching the truth even less, say that Iraqis under military occupation are currrently more free than Europe.

Hmm.

Can you tell me the difference between Russian police operation against terrorist gangs in Chechnya and the same things done by US "liberators" in Iraq in search of some imaginary WMD?...

Europeans keep whining about Chechnya and demand "human rights" for terrorists, while noone cares about the same things performed by occupants in a former souverign state.

[Fatty]

That's between you and them, you're not going to get me to argue Europeans are level headed.

I've never commented on Russian activites except to say I was glad they killed the terrorists at the theatre.

[Rude]

Originally posted by Nash
Somewhere in Iraq:

In a major operation launched earlier today dubbed "Spartan Scorpion", hunrdeds of U.S. Army troops raided the conservative town of Fallujah west of Baghdad, searching for illegal weapons that intelligence indicated were stockpiled for use against U.S. forces.

The raids, involving more than 1,300 soldiers, began just three hours after a deadline passed for Iraqis to turn in their weapons. One of three task forces involved in the operation reported only a single arrest... of a man driving during curfew hours bearing a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

The raid against Fallujah followed an extensive action last week, dubbed "Operation Peninsula Strike". Soldiers rousted residents from their beds and detained about 400 people (60 of whom still remain in custody).

The troops, wearing night vision devices under a bright full moon, found no weapons.*

*Info boosted from the CNN website; lovingly spliced, diced, whipped and pureed by yours truly for maximum creamy kneejerk ire inducing goodness.

Whiner

[Fishu]

Boroda,

Well.. we could just ask how many Cheznyans are welcoming russians as liberators versus iraq & coalition forces.

A handful versus masses?

Sure theres fair amount of people in Iraq with differing opinions, however I'd figure it is at far lesser degree than in Cheznya.


Also could put it this way:
If Finland would been occupied by the soviet union and annexed as part of soviet union, but then the allied forces would've continued the war just like Patton wanted - against the soviet union.
So who do you figure would been more welcomed?

Both sides would of had a goal to liberate Finland; one side likes to liberate the working class and the other side wants to liberate the country.

Which side do you think would have to clear up more "terrorists" and have more human right organizations critisizing it?


Then we can talk about the future:
Soviet Union would install its own puppet goverment and things could be pretty much like under dictatorship.
The allies probably would leave some army bases behind, but at least the people would have their own goverment of their choise.

There would be constant 'terrorist' attacks against the Soviet Union administration, while only few if any would be 'terrorizing' the allies.


So I'd figure the cheznyans would be welcoming US forces much more freely than russian forces.
Surely not with a red carpet, but neither with a red blood path around every corner.


How many US states are trying to become independent of the US goverment?
How many states of Soviet Union tried to become independent of the SU goverment?

Oh yeah.. we know answer for the latter.

Speaks volume?

[Nash]

lol Rude, how predictable can you possibly be?

[Nash]

Btw Rude., you've typed a fair amount here and there at this UBB... but the records would indicate, if one were inclined to do the research, that the last time you actually said anything probably occured sometime during 2001.