what is the worst possible scenario in a war against iraq?

[Juize]

Of course! We should respect Iraq's right to spray poison gas on helpless women and children! Perhaps if you were an Iraqi Kurd you would have a differing opinion.

*cough, cough*
This is during war, again?

Is it not allowed to kill during war? You're starting to sound absurd:
"When we attacked them, they shot down our bombers! That's a serious war atrocity!"
...or what are you trying to say?


About the Washington Post-article:
I'd like to see this "compelling evidence". Or would it endanger your troops, being
such up-to-date information? A single attack towards Iraq, retaliation not allowed,
no evidence. Wow, now you got my support

Hussein is no better than either of them. [Hitler, Stalin]

Such an obvious Hitler-card? I'm really disappointed, sharpe.

 

[Blitz79]

If Hussein is 'no better than Hitler or Stalin' then you'd better ask your government why it gave him the weapons to murder Kurds..

Or just carry on lying down like you have been, believing everything you're told.

 

[Switch625]

Originally posted by Blitz79
Or just carry on lying down like you have been, believing everything you're told.

I could say the same about you. The United States never supplied Iraq with chemical or biological weapons. The only thing that ever happened was an exchange of agent samples between scientific institutes, and that happened on a worldwide scale. Back then, we had no idea that the exchange should be prohibited. The US has NEVER sold weapons of mass destruction to ANYONE. I challenge you to prove me wrong.

And before anyone mentions Israel and nuclear weapons, you all have France to thank for that.

 

[Blitz79]

Fair enough, if that is true then I concur that particular point.

Now what about the other weapons? Are you equally angry, Switch, about the Kurds being killed by our NATO ally Turkey as by those killed twenty years ago by (coincidence of coincidence) the 'enemy of the moment'?

 

[amadeus]

You couldn't care a less about the Kurds. Why don't you want to bomb Turkey? You just got whipped up by CNN and want a war which you don't understand.

Insulting my intelligence will get you nowhere.

 

[Blitz79]

It worked for CNN...

 

[amadeus]

That's why I don't watch CNN.

 

[Blitz79]

So, are we gonna go after Turkey?

 

[Toasty]

Originally posted by rmsharpe
That's why I don't watch CNN.

That explains a lot.

 

[amadeus]

Do you sincerly believe that hurling insults and sarcasm is going to further your "cause?"

 

[newfangle]

Do you sincerly believe that your government gives a ship about the Kurds?

 

[Ancient Grudge]

Originally posted by rmsharpe
Do you sincerly believe that hurling insults and sarcasm is going to further your "cause?"

yes i believe it does its called propaganda

 

[Juize]

When Saddam used gas against Kurds, US supported it. When Saddam stopped it,
US turned against it. So that's a moot point, sharpe.

 

[Blitz79]

Let's warm up the minutemen... Ethical America is coming after you Turkey...

And Brazil. And Egypt. And China. And Panama, Chile, Saudi Arabia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Indonesia....

 

[amadeus]

The United States benefits the least from propping up dictators. Who is it that flocks to countries like Cuba and Libya? European and Canadians, that's who.

 

[Ancient Grudge]

After the gulf war America incited an uprising by the Kurds. The Kurds believing they would get support from America rose up and where slaughtered in their thousands just another example of the 'use them and lose them' American foreign policy.

 

[Blitz79]

Originally posted by rmsharpe
The United States benefits the least from propping up dictators. Who is it that flocks to countries like Cuba and Libya? European and Canadians, that's who.

Are we taking a tango into the surreal here?

 

[Ancient Grudge]

Originally posted by rmsharpe
The United States benefits the least from propping up dictators. Who is it that flocks to countries like Cuba and Libya? European and Canadians, that's who.

Are you talking about Jack Straw's visit to Libya? This was to help with Americas war on terrorism was it not just like his visit to Iran.

 

[nixon]

Originally posted by Juize
When Saddam used gas against Kurds, US supported it. When Saddam stopped it,
US turned against it. So that's a moot point, sharpe.

What a ludicrous, yet gloomy assumption which is, on all counts, seperated from reality. No U.S. administration, has ever supported Iraqi desolation of civilian areas, including the heinous use of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
In addition, your little comment "When Saddam stopped it, US turned against it", honestly makes no sense to me. What exactly are you talking about? What we're talking about is extensive, but swift liquidation of Kurdish towns bordering Iran, not vast coordinated campaigns.
The United States would never have been able to stop Saddam, exept for an armed intervention - which naturally wasn't a part of the discussion, due to the war against the sinister regime of Khomeini. Calling it "a moot point" is therefore outright laughable. I am sure the honored members of this forum, of this discussion, would like to see some real evidence pointing toward the notions put forth by you.

 

[Blitz79]

We could only have stopped Iraq by an armed intervention.

Of course!!

thank God we're not doing that now, erm...

And by 'support' we mean continuing to sell him the little things in life, like warplanes and tanks.