What have we learned from Iraq?

[Patroklos]

I already handed Patroklos his ass, KH.

Liberal defence auto responce # 54 flight Bravo.

[KrazyHorse]

I don't have to tell myself that, numbnuts. Go find the archived threads.

All I had to do was use some common sense and some general knowledge of what producing CNB weapons entails. That, coupled with an impression of the level of efficacy of trade barriers wrt necessary technology and Iraq's level of technological self-sufficiency was enough to convince me that Bush, the CIA, Colin Powell and anybody else who claimed otherwise was full of ****.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Patroklos


Keep telling yourself that.

And those who were forcasting the destruction of the world by invading Iraq were much farther from the truth from the Right Wing fairy tale (which was just that


Right Wing<--------TRUTH--------------------------->Left Wing

This is just like Vietnam right? Losers.

I also recall saying that Iraq was going to be more akin to Lebanon for the Israelis than it was going to be Viet Nam

Put away the pornographic pictures of Ann Coulter and bring your A game. This is pathetic.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Patroklos
Liberal defence auto responce # 54 flight Bravo.

Engage right-wing cop-out #362:

DANGER! DANGER! Liberal has outmaneuvered us on all fronts! Fall back to lame knee-jerk comments! Fall back!

[Patroklos]

efficacy of trade barriers wrt necessary technology

I suppoce those trade barriers are why he rebuilt several armored divisions.

Nice try. Your personal views on the war are not in question. I do not presume to remember what you said back then. The comment was in regards to opposition in general.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Put away the pornographic pictures of Ann Coulter and bring your A game. This is pathetic.

You must not know him very well. Alas, this is his A game.

[KrazyHorse]

What I've learned from this thread: Patroklos and Lancer will alter history to their liking whenever the opportunity arises.

[Patroklos]

Engage right-wing cop-out #362:

Such unoriginality, tisk tisk....

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Patroklos
I suppoce those trade barriers are why he rebuilt several armored divisions.

Care to ask some of our resident military experts about the efficacy of said armored divisions?

Hint: It was 30-year-old technology that was smashed away in a heartbeat.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Patroklos
Such unoriginality, tisk tisk....

I was only aspiring to the level of that to which I was responding.

[Patroklos]

Put away the pornographic pictures of Ann Coulter and bring your A game. This is pathetic.

References to pornogaphy are ironic, as you and Boris at lub to your circle jerk.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Patroklos


I suppoce those trade barriers are why he rebuilt several armored divisions.

Man, who writes your material?

Interestingly enough, even Iraq would be able to make spare parts for its old Soviet model tanks. Who knows, maybe the USSR even sold to Iraq the license to build spare parts.

Nice try. Your personal views on the war are not in question. I do not presume to remember what you said back then. The comment was in regards to opposition in general.

Why should any state have backed a nation-building war of choice?

People like you (I use the term losely) have never come up with an answer to that simple question.

[Patroklos]

Or in Boris's case, lack of lub.

It was 30-year-old technology that was smashed away in a heartbeat.

It was 30 year old tech that wasn't there after 91

[Lancer]

KrazyHorse, you were only right in those old threads because you were completely wrong. Had you been right in a correct manner you would have been wrong like the rest of us. We were right to be wrong you see, and the evidence supports this. Also, all the right people were also wrong, so on our side we have some really interesting and knowledgeable people.

Next time, try to be more up on the facts so you can be right to be wrong like the rest of us...like the BEST of us.

Now, let us hear no more of this.

Please.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Patroklos


I suppoce those trade barriers are why he rebuilt several armored divisions.

Rebuilt, my ass. Putting a new engine into a T-72 is slightly diferent than running a breeder reactor or producing effective weaponised chemical and biological agents in large enough quantities to cause any significant damage.

Nice try. Your personal views on the war are not in question. I do not presume to remember what you said back then. The comment was in regards to opposition in general.

So the comment was in regards to some shadowy opposition whose views you didn't even bother to understand the first time around?

Laughable.

These very boards were full of people saying that the existence of significant CNB capability was doubtful to say the least.

I believe this fallacy is called the strawman argument.