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Hence, the war on terror...
Post-War Iraq Thread
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Hence, the war on terror...
knowltok2
Deity
Or dumb enough. maybe not with chemical, or a localized biological, but can you imagine the response to a nuke, or an effective biological? Especially the biological. Kill 10% of the population and a restrained way of warfare would likely go out the window. Likely the same with a nuke. Attacked in such a way, Roman methods of dealing with threats would likely seem appealing.
Sultan Bhargash
Trickster Reincarnated
First terror attacks with:
Nuclear-> two civilian Japanese cities destroyed to terrorize the Japanese into surrendering.
Biological-> Geoffrey Amherst hands out blankets to the Native Americans infested with smallpox, knowing they had no immunity.
Chemical-> European Rome salts the earth of African Carthage so that nothing can grow there any more.
I think you meant "when will the next one come" Zultan, and I hope the answer is never.
Nuclear-> two civilian Japanese cities destroyed to terrorize the Japanese into surrendering.
Biological-> Geoffrey Amherst hands out blankets to the Native Americans infested with smallpox, knowing they had no immunity.
Chemical-> European Rome salts the earth of African Carthage so that nothing can grow there any more.
I think you meant "when will the next one come" Zultan, and I hope the answer is never.
I don't think terrorists are dumb enough to use WMD against us, especially nuking a major city. They don't want 100% of americans for the war against terror and every country and supports terror.
Plus i think we would see a huge surge of men and women enlisting. Probably more than ww2
Plus i think we would see a huge surge of men and women enlisting. Probably more than ww2
D' Artagnan
Mousquetaire du Roi
Man that's horrible !
Sultan Bhargash
Trickster Reincarnated
@Sun Tzu- you're g-damn right. I'm a pacifist but if someone nuked America or any other nation, I'd do my part in dealing with them.
@D'Artagnan- it wasn't that great but let's be relativistic, Amherst didn't consider the pagan Injuns to be human. What's bad is that I live in one of many US counties named after him.
@D'Artagnan- it wasn't that great but let's be relativistic, Amherst didn't consider the pagan Injuns to be human. What's bad is that I live in one of many US counties named after him.
Not that nice, Us forces let some Iraqs that they claimd were thifes undress and burned their clothes and wrote thife on thier chest and then sent them away.
The reporters talked with the comander in charge (lutenant) and he defended his metod and said they would use it again.
One of the alaged thifs the reportes talked to said they were only looking for his younger brother and the clothes the US burned for him also included his ID and money.
http://www.expressen.se/expressen/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=442&a=29660
Greadius
:yeah:
Would someone slap that Lt. with a strong arm of bad PR moves?
Do you think the detractors will care (or even believe) they were trying to steal weapons?
Do you think the detractors will care (or even believe) they were trying to steal weapons?
EdwardTking
Deity
Imagine that; now if Saddam had told them that many in
the USA army are rampant gays; they might have fought harder.
the USA army are rampant gays; they might have fought harder.
Sultan Bhargash
Trickster Reincarnated
Just watched a BBC report about the clergy attending a mosque, supposed to be the biggest mosque in the world but incomplete, and denouncing it's builder, Saddam. The cleric told the crowd how Saddam tortured his son in front of his eyes, and the mass of grown Islamic men assembled cried out loud. They hated Saddam, and now they want a faith-based government.
Of course the US isn't having it; we've insisted we will not allow an Islamic government to take power in Iraq. We've got our pseudo-Iraqi candidates in business suits with bullhorns trying to sell the crowds on democracy, but from what I saw, they weren't having it.
I wish we'd let the Iraqis claim their own government in a revolt against Saddam, on the other hand, that revolt may never have come, and we'd still have Saddam over there, looking all smarmy.
The pre-war debates sucked, the war sucked, the victory hour was sweet, but the situation in Iraq is back to seriously sucking.
Of course the US isn't having it; we've insisted we will not allow an Islamic government to take power in Iraq. We've got our pseudo-Iraqi candidates in business suits with bullhorns trying to sell the crowds on democracy, but from what I saw, they weren't having it.
I wish we'd let the Iraqis claim their own government in a revolt against Saddam, on the other hand, that revolt may never have come, and we'd still have Saddam over there, looking all smarmy.
The pre-war debates sucked, the war sucked, the victory hour was sweet, but the situation in Iraq is back to seriously sucking.
Sounds awfully similar to the current regime in Washington. Of course, I'm sure the Bush administration won't be pushing for a voucher program in Iraq. Don't want to spoil the secular system by funding all those fanatic religious educators.
Greadius
:yeah:
Or they may have cheered louder
Greadius
:yeah:
Nope I don't, why'd you say that?
Sultan Bhargash
Trickster Reincarnated
The link he provided was in Swedish; did you really hear this news in English in America??
Greadius
:yeah:
Uhm... yeah.
Being informed is important to me. Google news is great in this case, but I think it was in the NYT as well.
Being informed is important to me. Google news is great in this case, but I think it was in the NYT as well.
Looks like this thread is finally relevant. Discuss.
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-announces-total-iraq-troop-withdrawal-165635034.html
