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Online Game Simulates 'Worst Case Scenario' in Iraq
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Posted on 02/09/2003 7:52:14 PM PST by Forgiven_Sinner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Toppling Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) is in the war simulation game "Gulf War (news - web sites) 2" is the easy part. Coping with what comes next is more difficult.
Players assume the role of President Bush (news - web sites) in the online game, receiving regular briefings from caricatures of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites).
It starts with Baghdad's quick fall but then proceeds to an Iraqi anthrax attack on Israel, a retaliatory nuclear strike, revolt in Saudi Arabia, and a Kurdish coup in northern Iraq.
Once Saddam Hussein's body is found, players are asked to select one of three look-alike successors, who soon requires military backing to fend off an anxious Iran.
There are also anti-American uprisings in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Pakistan, which lead eventually to nuclear warheads being smuggled to militant groups.
"This is a projection of the most likely outcome of a new war in the Gulf," reads the Web site www.idleworm.com, home of the game created in November by 33-year-old Dermot O'Connor.
O'Connor, a computer animator who moved from Ireland to California three years ago, drew his source material from interviews and reports in the Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Times of London, the Guardian newspaper in Britain and the Australian Sunday Herald.
The game appears interactive but leads players down a set path, designed by O'Connor to highlight the risks of war.
"There is only one deliberate outcome. It didn't make sense to give people the idea that they could avoid the worst," he said in an interview.
About 20,000 people play the game every day, he said.
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: iraq; onlinegame; scenarios; simulation; war
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To: Forgiven_Sinner
It's not actually a game. It's just a load of bullshit.
To: Forgiven_Sinner
i personally like the Irish but, I don't understand why they come here instead of fraaaaancccee?
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posted on
02/09/2003 8:35:05 PM PST
by
Righty1
To: Forgiven_Sinner
This is a projection of the most likely outcome of a new war in the Gulf
Gosh, if he is so good at seeing the future results of a war with Iraq, I wonder why he has not been so good at picking the results of the next PowerBall lottery?
/sarcasm
To: Forgiven_Sinner
Speaking of Anti-Bush and Anti-War pravda, I held my stomach while watching all of ABC Nightly TV news this evening. For the frist 27 minutes they dished up the usual Bush is bad and the UN and Europe are good garbage, but at the very end of the broadcast some unbiased truth came shining through the liberal brainwashing factory. It was quotes from the current President of Afghanistan. He praised the US military for destroying the grip that the Taliban terrorists had on Afghanistan. When asked if he supported getting rid of Saddam Hussien, he stated that because of the great help the Afghan war was too his people struggling to be free, he feels obligated to free the people of Iraq even though it means draining possible US protection forces from his own country. Dont know how a ray of truth ever got through the anti-US pro-UN progressives at ABC.
To: Forgiven_Sinner
To: Forgiven_Sinner
you can download it for free on Kaaza.com
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posted on
02/09/2003 8:47:23 PM PST
by
bulldogs
To: Forgiven_Sinner
The worst case situation is letting this nut job stay in power long enough to get a nuke! This is why we MUST go in NOW!
Sure, alot of the terrorists will be upset; as if they aren't already! However, this is one of the training grounds for them, and a primary supply of funds (which are supposed to feed the Iraqi people).
Ok, been thinking of this for a little while, got to do it. I'm going to try one of the left's strongholds, I'm going to try to write a pro-war poem. I tried once, but it turned into a nursery rhyme. Wish me luck; as a poet I am not - I can't stand the format!
MARK A SITY
http://www.logic101.net/
To: Bobby777
"Side with them", yes - but a significant number of the Musli don't have "painful, ignominious death" on their list of desiderata.
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posted on
02/09/2003 9:51:29 PM PST
by
185JHP
( "Big Oil, Big Buttons, Ultrarightwingers in Red China?)
To: Forgiven_Sinner
top of the hour bump
To: Forgiven_Sinner
. . . drew his source material from interviews and reports in the Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Times of London, the Guardian newspaper in Britain and the Australian Sunday Herald. Well, is it any wonder all outcomes of the war are disastrous? Gee, I wonder what "the most likely outcome" of appeasement would be in a game designed by Freepers?
To: AntiGuv
The game is not very accurate. They fail to indicate that the American left, european left, and islamofascists dance in the streets after the anthrax attack on Isreal.
To: Forgiven_Sinner
I played the game. What again is the down side? It looks like the Middle East lined up for slaughter. Those that are left won't be able to fight for 25 years. And if they don't go about forming a productive society, the place will be empty in 25 years.
I tried getting a better score by just nuking out of the box, but it wouldn't let me. I'd say it only gets three stars. I liked the outcome but it didn't seem to have enough options for me.
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posted on
02/09/2003 10:46:20 PM PST
by
Joe_October
(Freep on Brother)
To: Forgiven_Sinner; All
That is not a game.
It is [seriously] written by an anti-war type with PC and coding skills. He lets you start the fight...then builds in every negative response possible [and impossible].
The end result for everyone who participates is something just short of complete and total Worldwide Armeggedon.
Dont waste your Conservative time.
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posted on
02/09/2003 10:54:25 PM PST
by
VaBthang4
(Jeremiah 51;24 "..Before your eyes I will repay Babylon for all the wrong they have done in Zion")
To: mikegi
~Grin~
In their minds....this is precisely where the whole thing goes.
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posted on
02/09/2003 10:56:11 PM PST
by
VaBthang4
(Jeremiah 51;24 "..Before your eyes I will repay Babylon for all the wrong they have done in Zion")
To: Joe_October
"
I tried getting a better score by just nuking out of the box, but it wouldn't let me."
ROTFLOL
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posted on
02/09/2003 10:57:30 PM PST
by
VaBthang4
(Jeremiah 51;24 "..Before your eyes I will repay Babylon for all the wrong they have done in Zion")
To: Forgiven_Sinner
Does it have the Chinese army, lurking nearby, waiting to defend the oil fields and Islam from the invaders?
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posted on
02/09/2003 11:11:02 PM PST
by
jeremiah
(Sunshine scares all of them, for they all are cockaroaches)
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