# Are Iraqi "terror ships" at sea? How to handle if not UL?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-iraqi-terror-ships-at-sea-how-to-handle-if-not-ul/156195>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 19, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-iraqi-terror-ships-at-sea-how-to-handle-if-not-ul/156195 "2003-02-19T19:57:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-iraqi-terror-ships-at-sea-how-to-handle-if-not-ul/156195/41 "2003-02-21T17:44:12Z")

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Ditto. There is no need to sink them. Who cares? Watch them, let them starve. If they get too close to any other ships or to shore, THEN hit them. In the meantime, why even worry?

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**Author:** ![ChaosGod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@ChaosGod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChaosGod)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-iraqi-terror-ships-at-sea-how-to-handle-if-not-ul/156195/42 "2003-02-22T00:30:38Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Sam Stone \*  
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> And it’s idiotic to suggest that they aren’t boarding because they are ‘afraid to find out that there’s nothing on them’. If that was their big worry, they would have just boarded them without announcement. Then if there was nothing there, they’d just be three more ships that were detained and released. No big deal.  
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I think it would bew a HUGE deal, given the current state of affairs. Another dead end in the search of WMS. It would fuel the anti-war sentiment even further.

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**Author:** ![ChaosGod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@ChaosGod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChaosGod)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-iraqi-terror-ships-at-sea-how-to-handle-if-not-ul/156195/43 "2003-02-22T00:41:32Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Phoenix Dragon \*  
> \*\*Yeah. We’d send an actor. Because as we all know, the US does not have any special operations forces trained specifically for such water-born operations as boarding a ship…  
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\<non constructive sarcasm\>  
We also know that the US has trained supermen, half machine, half genetic mutants. These guys can sneak into Saddams bed in the middle of the night and place a state of the art mind-contol device up his ass. Of course it has to be in the night because everybody knows foreign militia turn off radar, lights, and open all doors, and go to sleep, every single one of’em, at 8pm.  
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Just joking. My only serious point is that we shouldn’t believe in hollywoods version of supercomandos.

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**Author:** ![Phoenix\_Dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Phoenix\_Dragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phoenix_Dragon)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-iraqi-terror-ships-at-sea-how-to-handle-if-not-ul/156195/44 "2003-02-22T01:45:47Z")

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> \*Originally posted by ChaosGod \*  
> \*\*Just joking. My only serious point is that we shouldn’t believe in hollywoods version of supercomandos. \*\*

I don’t think anyone here believes the hollywood portrayal of just about anything.

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