LAST NIGHT WE STARTED BOMBING IRAQ

EVILDR235

I have heard from a few places we started bombing Iraqs missle defense sights last night.Why is there so little of this on the news?The Michael Savage show is where i heard about it,and the MSN news when i turned my computer on tonight.They barely talked about it on the evening news on TV.So whats up with this?
Dr.Evil

sundowner

The official word is:
It was a standard defensive operation in the southern no-fly zone because they were aggresively targeting our planes during their routine patrols. Out of the 100 planes involved, only 12 actually dropped bombs. The rest were F-16's providing cover and various support planes, like refuelers and anti-radar jobs.

or . . .

some news agencies have reported that the sight targeted would be nessecary to remove for Special Ops to move in from Kuwait for prepping a large scale attack from Kuwait.

I actually believe the first scenario, for some reason. Although it may have been a taunt, also.

Alpine

Both perspectives work. If they do this routinely then how does Iraq know when the real show begins? Other than seeing the cruise missles flying down the streets of course.

"If you ain't got pictures, I wasn't there."

sundowner

Although you have to admit it would be nice for Saddam to do something stupid and have Bush go, "Well, gawddamn, we weren't left with any other choice but to meet the aggression head on . . . and after 48 hours of combat, that is why Iraq is now known as The Oil Field Of The Free World"

nitrouz

We Started hitting Sadam in 1991 and haven't stopped since. The news flashed you see on tv of hitting radar sights has been going on since the Gulf War. What you don't see on CNN though is in August 2001 Sadam Hussein had his ground forces near the Saudi border armed with chemical weapons. The idiots dropped one and self inflicted casualties. Also Sadam has shot down quite a few of our unmanned aerial reconnaisance aircraft in the last year. Saudi Arabia locked down all U.S. forces onto Prince Sultan Air Base last year for two days. Our airbase is on their super-airbase and when a Saudi military officer tried to get on our side and was refused entry they locked us down. Also you won't see on CNN the fact that the Saudi Arabian King will not let the U.S. flag fly on our military bases on their land.

Iconoclast

Third explanation . . . Dubya is just reminding Saddam that the 'mother of all battles' ain't happened yet, but if it comes, Iraq ain't gonna have a lot to do with the outcome.

As for the Saudis, with 'friends' like these, who needs them. As was discussed last month, with the new sources of energy coming on line in the next decade, the era of Arab-style 'oil politics' is drawing to a close and these arrogant goat-herders will slink back into the desert like the historical aberration they really are.

offeror

In politics, 'friends' are who you claim they are on any given day. In reality, friends are those you can trust to some degree. The Saudis' true nature is known to us, and they seem to me much more in the nature of temporary allies than friends. They simply don't like us well enough to be called friends. The only remarkable thing about it is that we have a strange alliance where they allow our troops on their soil -- a pretty remarkable thing for an Arab nation -- in exchange for some extra security for themselves. Apparently, they're more afraid of Saddam's troops than they are of us. And I think that's the one and only basis for our "friendship," and our bases on Saudi deserts.

The no-fly zones in Iraq would make good cover for any extra ops we'd like to run right now, that's for sure.

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offeror

By the way, since the cable news channels live to scoop one another, there are only two possible explanations -- either the bombing of Iraq has been looked into by the media and no one is able to prove or confirm that it is unusual or more aggressive in nature, or the government has contacted every major news source asking them to withhold the story for national security reasons. I think the former is more likely.

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"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

Nighthawk

I agree with Offeror about the Saudi's and the Bombing campain.But between now and a full scale US attack,and I believe it will be large and decisive.They will probably step up incursions with Iraq,so the will not know their under full scale attack when it happens.But I to saw a retired Military Stratigest on TV who said he thought it would be done with special forces.Because the Us has no intention of Governoring Iraq.But the next man up mat be as bad or worse than Sadam,thats why we didnt take him out in the Gulf War.

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