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And about those Arabs and Turks, hard to believe but if true, a good prospect.Comment
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I read a huge article in a Dutch opinion magazine, but I'm not going to translate it. It basically said Iraqi tanks can drive in the Kurdish area any minute. People mainly wanted peace.Comment
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Saddam cannot invade the kurds. The terrain is terrible. Tanks and APC's cannot use the roads (mined by the Kurds). The terrain is a defenders paradise. Think of the mountains in northern and eastern Afghanastan. This is the reason he resorted to nerve gas and mustard gas to put down the last rebellion.Originally posted by Fresno
About the Kurds; what I meant is that when a war breaks out the first what Saddam will do is conquering the autonomous Kurdish zone in northern Iraq. And because of all his crimes against this people I'm affraid it would only harm the Kurds, not help them.
Plus the Kurds are under US and British air cover. (Combat Air Patrol (CAP)) Saddam's airforce tried once to counter that and now have over 250 fewer planes. (Not counting the ones that flew to Iran).
Helicopters are the best tool for the terrain but cannot be used because of the CAP.
Same for the Shiite muslims in the south near Kuwait. (Southern no fly zone). No what terrifies the US and all its neighbors is Saddam knowing that the end is near, and all that waits for him is death, will lash out with his remaining weapons of mass destruction. This could include setting off a nuke in Bahgdad. A kind of if I can't keep my country, neither can you.
Most of the equipment he bought from Europe and Asia to build a nuke has never been found. Various intelligence agencies believe that if Saddam has built a nuke (and it is not hard once you have the U238 or P235) he does not have the equipment to miniturize it enough to put on a missile (this is the hard part) and therefore it is too large to move except on a truck. This large and probably dirty weapon could not be used as a tactical weapon but it could be used as a weapon of last result.
Even if Saddam doesn't have a nuke, he has several thousand tons (yes thousands) of VX, Mustard gases as well as hundreds of tons of antharax, botulism, and probably small pox.
A senario would be him tipping a scud with small pox or VX, and shooting it into Israeli airspace. It would be shot down, but the war head would break apart on impact scattering its dealy cargo.
Small Pox is the deadliest of all the above agents. As the US saw, anthrax can be treated by antibiotics. A nuke can be survived. Botulism can be treated, so can mustard gas (although you lead a tortured life afterwards.) In 1999 the US government launched a test (Dark Winter) where they "inflicted" 3 people (1 person in three different states) with small pox, in order to test the readiness of the US to battle a biological attack. 13 days later they had to cancel the test because it had spun out of control. The final tally was infection in 25 states and 15 countries. They refused to release the number of "deaths" but it estimated to be in the millions. This is the reason Saddam is still alive.KATNComment
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More good news lorddread?Comment
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Good News Bad News
Sorry, just telling the facts.Originally posted by Oligarf
More good news lorddread?KATNComment
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That is what I feel most sorry for, and I know this is hanging above our head, but hearing it, that is not nice. But lets say I thankful that you keep me sharp
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hi everyone, I already posted about iraq and afghanistan in the old troll thread,none of which was addressed, so i'll refrain from doing that here.Comment
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This one goes out to Oligarf
Can you tell me what "Inter arma enim silent leges" means and who said it?KATNComment
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I will look that up for you, if I can find it though. I will need a dictionary to make it sound somewhat correct.Comment
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