Quick! Hit the nearest warmonger on the head with a coconut!

[UncleBill]

*Originally posted by elucidator *
Well, according to Mr. Rumsfeld, whom I regard as mostly honest but entirely mistaken, says that the Iraqi’s have fired on Amercian or British aircraft 76 times and have yet to score a hit.

Not sure where 76 comes from. Maybe 76 times in two months? There have been a bit more than 76 attacks, according to these guys.

28 January 2001 – Operation Southern Watch aircraft struck surface-to-air missile systems in southern Iraq. As of this date there have been more than 670 separate incidents of Iraqi surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft artillery fire directed against coalition pilots since December 1998.

Lets say since Dec 1, 1998. That is two years, two months. 26 months. 670 firings in, oh, let’s say 113 weeks. Just about 6 times a week, works out pretty close. Maybe they take Saturdays off?

[elucidator]

It was on CNN a couple days ago, he made quite a big deal about the number 76, but I don’t recall what time frame he placed that in, as I was so taken by the idea of all that AA fire and no hits. A month? Last three? Dunno.

[flyboy]

It’s common out there. The reason why they don’t hit anything is because in order to hit an object traveling at many thousands of feet at over 500 knots, you need radar. But if they turn their radars on, they know (from the Gulf War) that in a matter of minutes they and their radar facility will be rubble. So they fire their AAA guns and (much less frequently) SAMs ballistically–just point, shoot, and cross your fingers. This doesn’t really work, but I think it’s important to them to show some defiance and also hope for a lucky shot.

[Bob_Scene]

*Originally posted by Fredge *
**You’re bothered by the fact that politicians and governments lie? I see your post count is under a billion so obviously you don’t post every time they do lie. So it’s just this particular lie that’s bothering you? **

Interior: Ministry of Love

Room 1:
**Interrogator: ** (holding up two fingers) How many fingers am I holding up?
**Me: ** Two.
**Sound effect: **ZZZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPP!
**Interrogator: ** There are THREE fingers! How many fingers am I holding up?
**Me: ** Two.
**Sound effect: **ZZZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPP!
**Interrogator: ** There are THREE fingers! How many fingers am I holding up?
(Continues for several days.)

Room 2:
**Interrogator: **(holding up two fingers) How many fingers am I holding up?
**Fredge: **Three.
**Interrogator: ** Well, actually it’s two, but I’m supposed to be torturing you into saying three. So start off saying two, because that’s how many there really are. Then I can keep giving you electric shocks to the genitals until you break down and say three.
**Interrogator: **(holding up two fingers) How many fingers am I holding up?
**Fredge: **Three.
**Interrogator: **You are no fun whatsoever! (Stomps out of room angrily.)

[Bob_Scene]

*Originally posted by Ace0Spades *
**Question, sir!

If the war-mongrels have forgotten about BOTH the UN inspections spying AND the supplying of Saddam with chemical and biological weapons, should we hit them with TWO coconuts, or will that render them amnesiac again? **

Coconuts for everyone! As many as it takes!

[SPOOFE]

Whatever happened to the good ol’ fashioned warmongers who just loved the smell of napalm in the morning?

[Henry_B]

Bob Scene wrote:

Well, I tried that in this thread, using cites and being as nice as I could, but an amnesia-suffering warmonger just responded by babbling some kind of insane bullshit… <snip>

I can assure You that

1. You are not hit by bullshit, because You are nice.
2. You are not hit because You give a thread facts.
3. You are not hit because You have brains and You are capable to write so that a normal person understands Your arguments.

But to make all 1) and 2) and 3) at the same time, that is too much to any redneck.
I am just so pleased that there is a 1-2-3-guy in Texas.
Keep it up.

[Tripler]

*Originally posted by SPOOFE *
**Whatever happened to the good ol’ fashioned warmongers who just loved the smell of napalm in the morning? **

Oh, don’t worry. We’re still here.

I swear, as soon as I get some free time, I will sit down and actually post something informative or opinionated in this thread.

Tripler
Damned schedule.

[elf6c]

Not one angry post about an administration filled with chicken-hawks not actually listening to its veterans? Dang. I would have bet a dollar.

What happened to the war on terror? Umm maybe we should finish that first? I know mid-term elections are coming and the economy and corporate scandels have your administrations fingerprints all over them, but could we finish the war on terror before you try to redeem your daddy’s mistake.

Not to say Saddam doesn’t deserve a nice fat 1000 pound laser guided missle in his lap, but we are pissing away any goodwill we have, and your strident babble about “evil-doers” make you sound like a 50’s comic book.

No desert until you finish your meat and vegetables, which is fixing the economy and finishing the war on terror.