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alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
edited January 2002 in General Discussion
Yeah right! like last time.Saddam Hussein discusses mobilizing Iraqis against U-S attack Baghdad, Iraq-AP -- Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is making plans in case the United States goes after Iraq.Saddam met with his senior aides today to discuss a general mobilization of Iraqis. The Iraqi News Agency says they discussed ways to thwart what it calls "the malicious, hostile plans that the rulers of America" are planning against Iraq.President Bush recently warned Saddam there would be consequences if Iraq continues to refuse to cooperate with U-N weapons inspectors.
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  • songdogsongdog Member Posts: 355 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Please answer this for me. Why didn't we kill that little camel * eatin * when we had the chance in 1991. Oh i forgot, we do not want to step on anyones toes do we.songdog
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  • songdogsongdog Member Posts: 355 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just think, That would be 2 OPEC countries out of commission,well after afghan is blown to hell and then revived. We would not haveto listen to the liberals about tapping oil here and there. We would have been in charge of two of the largest ol producing countries in the world. Just think, gas for a quarter or two, hmmmm those were the days.songdog
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  • XracerXracer Member Posts: 1,990 ✭
    edited November -1
    Afganistan is not a major oil producing country....it's not even a minor oil producing country.It's not a member of OPEC either.But if you like goats and sheep.....
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We didn't get Saddam because our allies were against it. They thought the job was done. It wasn't just Pres. Bush's Decision.
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  • BullzeyeBullzeye Member Posts: 3,560
    edited November -1
    I blame Colin Powell for that one.I dont care what he's saying now. He's far too conservative a strategist for my liking.Regular General McClellan all over again.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bullzeye, I think you are being a tad harsh. There was a definite political element at work in 1991, as there is even now. In order to achieve our ends we needed - and still do - support, even if it is only political, from other nations whose values are often somewhat different than ours. This isn't the first half of the 20th century, when we could send the fleet & Marines into some small country and ignore the political consequences. Unfortunately. Comparing Powell to earlier leaders is comparing apples and oranges. They were operating in entirely different, pre-nuclear times. MacArthur and Korea were the turning point. Even in WW2, the strategy was affected by politics; there are numerous examples from that period I won't repeat here. He might well be too timid a strategist, but I would submit that even Patton would be hamstrung in today's climate.
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  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    It was Swartzkoph(sp) that let them use theirhelicopters to put down a rebellion that might have finished the job. What is worseis that we encouraged them to rise up & thendid nothing to stop their slaughter. (Do's that remind anyone else of Hungary?)
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