# Iraq: Bring on the dolphins!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-bring-on-the-dolphins/164269>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 26, 2003, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-bring-on-the-dolphins/164269 "2003-03-26T11:08:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![RandySpears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/858c86/32.png) [@RandySpears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandySpears)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-bring-on-the-dolphins/164269/61 "2003-04-01T16:41:16Z")

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Yeah! I liked that one, a parody of “The birds” by Hitchcock, right? And then off course we have Planet of the apes…

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**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-bring-on-the-dolphins/164269/62 "2003-04-02T03:29:39Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Mr. Duality \*  
> \*\*Maybe we could retrain these mine-sweeper monkeys:
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> [Morocco offers US monkeys to detonate mine - UPI.com](http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030324-064259-1443r) \*\*

Yair, I picked that up from the first page of this thread. Hence the joke. 😉

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-bring-on-the-dolphins/164269/63 "2003-04-02T03:38:34Z")

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It will probably come as no surprise to anyone that [PETA is not happy about this](http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/451zviqw.asp).

(Scroll to the bottom, though the top of the article containing the text of a speech by British Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins is well worth reading – easily some of the best wartime oratory since _Patton_).

[More from PETA](http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20030326-47517004.htm):

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> “The Navy is putting these animals intentionally in harm’s way,” said Stephanie Boyles, wildlife biologist at PETA. “These animals have no idea there is any danger to them, but we do. There are enough lives being lost in the war; we don’t need to add another species to the list of lives being lost.”

To which I add: :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![RandySpears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/858c86/32.png) [@RandySpears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandySpears)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-bring-on-the-dolphins/164269/64 "2003-04-02T11:49:10Z")

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“The Navy is putting these animals intentionally in harm’s way,”

Search “animal”, replace “human”.

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