Originally posted by Shuckins
The U.S. will win the war against Iraq. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. For a number of reasons.
1. There is opposition to his Saddam's rule within Iraq itself.
2. No Muslim nation is going to come to his aid.
3. Most of the battleground is as flat as a billiard table. The U.S. will seize and maintain air superiority, which will ensure our dominance on the ground.
4. Reason number one may make a house to house battle in Baghdad unnecessary.
Can you spell "blitzkrieg?"
Regards, Shuckins
There is no doubt that this will an easy vitory for the US-hightech army. Its like in "wars" against such superpowers like Grenada, Panama, Somalia or Afghanistan.
So it will be a very fast victory - maybe a week or so.
Saddam will be removed - and then the real problem comes:
Every neighbor of Iraq is ready to intervene with their iraqui puppets.
The turks will use the turkish minorities in North Iraq to get a reason for "police operations" against the iraqui kurds.
The Iranians will use their iraqui shiite puppets to get their part in the civil war, which comes after the "victory".
The arabs will use their iraquis to ensure that the sunnite minority will remain in power in Iraq.
Syria will play its own game in order to get control of their specific politic goals in Iraq.
And the iraqui opposition will also fight against each other. Even the kurds are devided in many splinter groups - very much like the clans in Afghanistan.
And in the middle this chaos you really want to see US or other foreign occupation forces ?
Have a look at Afghanistan. After the great victory against the superpower Taliban the country is in full chaos.
It is totally devided between the warlords.
In the northeast the "General" Dostum, a war-criminal like Saddam or Bin Laden is supported by the CIA (like Saddam and Bin Laden decades ago).
Dostum was responsible for assassinations against the government of the puppet-primeminister Karsai.
Until today 4 ministers have been killed.
In the west of Afghanistan the province of Herat is under total control of iranian controlled afghan puppets.
In the Southeast the Taliban rules with the help of Pakistan. They dont call themself Taliban any longer but they are the same clans which have been part of the Taliban before and they have the same fundamentalistic Taiban rules.
Even in the few cities controlled by foreign troops like Kabul the women still have to wear the Burka and have not any rights.
That victory in Afghanistan was really a great for the democracy in Afghanistan and the people must be really happy today.
Like the people in Iraq when they are "liberated" by the hightech-bombs which are only used to free them.
But we will forget Iraq and their coming civil war like we ignore the events in Afghanistan today.
What remains is another great victory in the name of demcracy.
WTG !
