Surrender By E-Mail?

[lawnguy]

I just heard an ABC radio news report that said Iraqi troops are indicating a desire to surrender via e-mail to allied forces across the Kuwaiti border. My question:

How does one find the e-mail address of an allied soldier? Was a web address printed on the flyers that were dropped?

Of course I know this doesn't matter a hill of beans, but I was just curious.

Thanks

[Tennessee_Bob]

I_Surrender@France.FR

[Born to Conserve]

They better not tell the French the e-mail address!

[cajungirl]

Funniest thing I ever heard,,,,mail your surrender to Americantroopsareus@surrender.net

[Callahan]

I'm watching the live MSNBC webcam in Baghdad. Right now you can hear some wierd Islamic chanting. Pretty wierd considering it 4am over there.

[EternalVigilance]

Yesterday there was a report that the Pentagon was asking for defections amongst senior Iraqi military staff by simply calling them at home on the phone.

[lawnguy]

They better not tell the French the e-mail address!

What an idiot I am!! I never even considered the French-Bashing potential of this, Thanks for picking up my slack ;)

[optimistically_conservative]

These are the leaflets: http://www.iwar.org.uk/psyops/resources/iraq/index.htm

If you think about where Iraqi military commanders would have access to email, it gives you an idea how high up and possible locations.

[Rockiesrider]

"How does one find the e-mail address of an allied soldier? Was a web address printed on the flyers that were dropped?"

Uh...that would be hit reply and ask his location.

[MonroeDNA]

But the troops have been told not to fly American flags.

Too "provocative."

ARRRRGH!!!!

[MarkeyD]

SPAM

[lawnguy]

Yesterday there was a report that the Pentagon was asking for defections amongst senior Iraqi military staff by simply calling them at home on the phone.

Yes, young man, is your father home? Can we speak to him please? Can you run and get him, it's long distance.

Hello Sir, How are you today? Would you like to watch that young man that answered the phone grow up to a ripe old age? We knew you would.

[Dave S]

The US has supposedly been contacting Iraqi generals by email and cell phone for several weeks. We have their email addresses. I imagine all the Iraqi has to do is reply to the email address that our email came from.

[longtermmemmory]

encryption!

or code words

Perhaps the delay right now is the USA adjusting plans to take into account the prewar surrendering. (pre holiday shopping) In the last war they had to deal with catastrophic success.

[lawnguy]

If you think about where Iraqi military commanders would have access to email, it gives you an idea how high up and possible locations.

Another good point, you guys are rolling tonight. Are battles for the phone line to plug into the modem occuring? I can imagine some poor schmuck with an old 28K modem cursing his fate. Dang it!! I KNEW I should've optimized my internet connection like the pop-up window told me!!

[ambrose]

How about doing some hacking so it appears that the Iraqi generals ARE sending defection signals... then bounce the emails back to Saddam so he kills all of his top generals...

[ricpic]

False defection signals. That's actually brilliant!

[cajungirl]

Ambrose! That is mean and petty and small and hateful and manipulative and cruel and just plane, well, not nice. I like it, I really like it!

[yooper]

And while I've got you on the phone, let me tell you about our great low-rate VISA card.

What, I've gotten you during dinner time?