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Da_bang80
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Seeing as it looks like Bush is going to attack Iraq (I made a rhyme!) whether or not the UN agrees, then why doesn't he just get on with it.
And while he's at it why doesn't he just attack North Korea, AND START WORLD WAR THREE!! I could sure go for some thermonuclear destruction raining down on my head!
Ahem...Sorry for the sarcasm. But I'm cranky this morning. Coffee's gone...
This lady just figured out that the US is after Iraqi oil?
She's worse than a niave, knee-jerked simpleton.
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She says it isn't just about oil, then she harps on the oil....
Last time the world placated a mad man he burned several million Jews....
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How can Hussein be compared to Hitler when he has no navy or air force, and now has an army one-fifth the size of 12 years ago, which even then proved totally inept at defending the country?
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In the land of fact, Iraq still has both a Navy and an Air Force, although its air force is small and its navy consists mostly of about 150 patrol boats.
Of course, if they loaded each of those patrol boats with dynamite, and tried a USS Cole-style attack, that's almost formidable.
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Except of course, Rob, that Hitler had a state of the art Navy and Air Force. Hussein has a run down military whose greatest threat is using patrol boats as kamikaze weapons. The comparission of Hussein to Hitler is still out of left field.
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Of course, if the only way to compare people is the size of their militaries, then you and I are exactly the same.
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Remembering that the USS Cole was in port and not "at war" when struck, an Iraqi partol boat no more threatens the might of the U.S. Navy than Snay in a bathtub.
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Remembering that the USS Cole was in port and not "at war" when struck, an Iraqi partol boat no more threatens the might of the U.S. Navy than Snay in a bathtub.
But if you don't make them sound threatening then how are you going to convince the world that they all need killing.
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Hitler had a moustache. Saddam has a moustache. therefore thay are the same. It's quite simple.
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I'm growing one right now. Therefore I must be evil. Kill me now. Or at least put me in exile.
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quote:Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: Almost formidable?? The Iraqi "navy"?
Remembering that the USS Cole was in port and not "at war" when struck, an Iraqi partol boat no more threatens the might of the U.S. Navy than Snay in a bathtub.
Yeah, and there's no way that any little Japanese plane could be a threat to one of our giant battleships...
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Planes and partol boats are two different things and we are in a different military age now.
Any U.S. warship worthy of the name warship and close enough to the action needs to be wary and watch out for these patrol boats, to do anything else would be stupid. But there is no reason to call these patrol boats formidable.
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