and dave I left right after posting that last night, and decided you deserved a straight answer to your question of ‘would you feel better’ yaddy yaddy yaddy.
Perhaps, the near stabbing victim would feel better for a moment, until, of course, you ran off w/the fur coat leaving me at the mercy of the other thug in the vicinity.
Analogies are fun!
To continue with this one, the problem I have is that your attitude is “I know you’re going to run off with the coat” when you don’t know any such thing. It’s speculation on your part.
Hey Lib, without bothering to link to every other post in which you have commented regarding Iraq,may I just ask you one thing?
Out of your last 1,000 posts or so, have you said anything useful that wasn’t steeped in bullshit?
This ain’t Somalia.
You can theorize all you want on your doomsday scenarios, I’ll stick with reality. We will march right up to Bagdad, and this will be over in no more then 3 weeks.
No shit this isn’t Somalia. However, the lesson we should have learned there is that assuming things about your enemy is dangerous and foolhardy. My personal belief is that you have about a 50% chance of being right and I sincerely hope you are. But you have to realize that this has the potential to turn into a bloodbath. All it takes is one Iraqi officer to decide to launch gas-warhead missiles (which I’m pretty sure they have) at Israel and/or the Kurds and we’ve got hundreds of civilian deaths. Will the Special Republican Guard fight? Nobody knows, I suppose it depends on how dependent they are on Saddam for their continued survival and how patriotic they are. I do know however that assuming they won’t is stupid. Arrogance has no place on the battlefield. And while I don’t like Saddam (and I usually respect your positions Lib but when you said that you were being a damn fool), I’m thinking our President and his band of advisors are showing a remarkable lack of caution in their actions. Look up the Greek concept of hubris: our actions to date are a textbook example of it.
He’s talking about getting his tarot cards read by Nancy Reagan’s former astrologer.
Except for the WMD bit, none of the hopes were realised.
Yes I know, zombie, thread, please close. But, its puts a nice line through it dose’nt it?
Wow - someone had to have the last word.
Ah, if only the numbers had been so small. But then they were only Iraqis; it’s not like they are people.
Jesus, I woke up and saw this thread and assumed it meant we were going to war with Iran.
… We aren’t, right?
Iran… Not yet. I’m also bummed that our edit window is 5 minutes, and not 10 years, because I would like to change quite a bit of what I wrote back then.
Guess that goes with a life where war meant Grenada and the first Gulf War.
Do me a favour. I had some prick calling me a drama queen for suggesting 10,000 fatalities. Imagine if I’d mentioned a hundred thousand.
True, Saddam Hussein didn’t unleash any weapons of mass destruction, but insurgents have been using his old stockpiles of chemical weapons to make their IEDs. “WMD” aren’t just nukes.
This claim surprised me, so I did a quick google search which turned up 2 incidents of supposed Chemical weapon IEDs. One was in 2004, and the other was someone adding bug standard chlorine liquid (i.e. Clorox) to a bomb to try to add chorine gas to the outcome (it didn’t really work)
So can you provide some other examples to substantiate your claim please?
Makes me want to cry.
All I can say is thank God we wrapped the whole thing up in two to three weeks the way World Eater predicted.
Given that I did not claim how many have been used, seems to me that you’ve already substantiated my claim.
Anyway, in November of 2004, coalition forces reported the capture of an ICD factory near Fallujah.
I realize that the edit window has closed, but you really should have said, “once used,” rather than “have been using,” in that case.
Just to be clear, and apologies if I’ve misunderstood, but are you arguing that the use of 1 sarin gas shell in an IED in 2004 actually shows that Saddam’s regime had significant weapons of mass destruction?
That was the real irony: World Eater and Wabbit were both right.