[wtc911]

Imagine if they get lucky and blow up a USN ship with all hands. Will any president simply declare the air war a victory and that's it?

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Then imagine it as a first strike after months of brinkmanship.

Or a scud hit on FOB Danger (or any US FOB in Iraq). Or a bio/chem warhead on a scud that finds Riyadh or Tel Aviv...All at the same time Silkworms (land based and fired from those lovely French made boats) are hitting super tankers at the choke point.

You can do a lot of damage with hundreds of missiles launched from dozens of mobile launchers before even the best forces in the world could find them and take them all out.

[Travis McGee]

After all was said and done, guess how many Iraqi mobile SCUDs we actually found and destroyed during Desert Storm?

And this was a super high priority, given that they were being launched at Israel, and we were trying to keep them from retaliating on their own.