Originally posted by Velociryx
1) War with Kuwait. (oh wait! That wasn't regional bullying....what am I thinking!)
2) Lobbing scuds at Israel (nahhhh....never happened)
3) War with Iran (nope....not regional bullying at all)
The proof has been in the headlines over the years....what more do you want?
And Rah...shhhh! We're not supposed to talk about that! We're the US....you know....our mission is to be the open check book for the UN.
-=Vel=-
1) War with Kuwait. (oh wait! That wasn't regional bullying....what am I thinking!)
2) Lobbing scuds at Israel (nahhhh....never happened)
3) War with Iran (nope....not regional bullying at all)
The proof has been in the headlines over the years....what more do you want?
And Rah...shhhh! We're not supposed to talk about that! We're the US....you know....our mission is to be the open check book for the UN.
-=Vel=-
Oh wait, its not 1991, its 2003! Well I'll be damned!
All those things you pointed out happened in, or before 1991. Now, i don;t know how you like to access the capabilities of states, but I prefer not to do it based on 12 year old info: I think it makes mroe sense to examine what sort of threat Iraq was based on its capabilities in 2003, not 1991. Since no SCUD's have been found, and the hunt for banned weapons is on, you can ahrdly cliam to know what its capabilities were as of the beginning of March. I do claim that those capabilities did not make Iraq an impending threat to his neighbors, specially given the extremely poor perfomance the Iraqi army at all levels put up.
RAH:
Let me start by saying that the UN did not approve of the no flight zones: that was something the US and UKon their own kept flying for 12 years. It was something we decided to fund ourselves, thorugh US and UK military budgets, not in any way throught the UN (that is right Vel, the UN had nothing to do with the no-flight zones), and I am positive that the costs of this one month of war far outweight the cost of those operation. If those ops. cost 2 billion a year, then we spent 24 billion on them...and could have kept them going 20 more years before they begun to equal the cost of this operation. If money was an issue, we would not have invaded.
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