Oh this is priceless...

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Oerdin
I agree that Iraq couldn't beat the U.S. but why waste $250 million on an excercise if you are just going to ignore the results of the excercise?

My guess is that they wanted to practice command, control and communications on a large scale.

[Lincoln]

Sadam is like one of the people who rammed a planeload of people into the WTC. Why do people still think he can be reasoned with. Could you have talked one of the hijackers out of killing all of those people when he had the plane in his hands? Why do people never learn from history. Some people are just plane evil. Calling Bush a "spineless moron" is certainly helping Sadam in his efforts to deceive well meaning people by pretending that Bush is evil and he is good.

http://thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=994692002

[Thucydides]

Originally posted by Lincoln
Sadam is like one of the people who rammed a planeload of people into the WTC. Why do people still think he can be reasoned with. Could you have talked one of the hijackers out of killing all of those people when he had the plane in his hands? Why do people never learn from history. Some people are just plane evil. Calling Bush a "spineless moron" is certainly helping Sadam in his efforts to deceive well meaning people by pretending that Bush is evil and he is good.

http://thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=994692002

Saddam has nothing in common with the people who blew up the WTC. The people who committed the act were matyring themselves to reach the holy land, basically sacrificing themselves for an action that they thought would reward them with an eternity with Allah.

Saddam is more of a Secularist. His only real interest is remaining in power as the leader of Iraq. Whoever he has to kill to do so he will do so. However, he would never sacrifice himself or his country for some higher goal, because he is the highest goal. He's a meglomaniac, which is almost the opposite of a suicide bomber. Saddam is evil, but evil in a semi-rational way that won't act against the interests of him staying in power. If that wasn't the case, he would have been ousted a long time ago.

Of course, that doesn't prevent people from trying to link the two, including Rumsfield. According to this article, the war against Iraq was planned at least a year ago.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/...in520830.shtml

[Lincoln]

You miss the point. He is of the same mind set as those people. He cannot be reasoned with except by force.

[Capt Dizle]

It kinda looks like we better get in and out of Iraq or we are going to be vunerable.

[Immortal Wombat]

Saddam has nothing in common with the people who blew up the WTC.

Both male. Both never spoken to me.

[Lefty Scaevola]

The Guardian apparently does not know the difference between Iran (which was the red force in the war game) and Iraq.