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To: nightdriver
All it would take is for another democRAT administration to give these guys some of these gunships...we could see ourselves attacked with the same aplomb as this story depicts us doing to them.

Not in a million years. They're only useful if you have air superiority, otherwise they get swatted like flies.

that's the thing-aside from ballistic missiles, all the rest of the military gear saddam bought didn't really help, because their military couldn't use it as a whole. They had some reasonably sophisticated aircraft, some nice artillery...but they lacked incidividual and command level skills to use their kit effectively.

re: "rubbing their faces in it." I had in mind the Taliban/Al-Qaeda guys- the religious nut cases. I think seeing them publicly humilitated will lessen their support.

I would not suggest we do that with the Iraqis, whose "hearts and minds" we're trying to win.

19 posted on 04/21/2003 9:10:15 AM PDT by fourdeuce82d
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To: fourdeuce82d
re: "rubbing their faces in it." I had in mind the Taliban/Al-Qaeda guys- the religious nut cases. I think seeing them publicly humilitated will lessen their support.

I wouldn't mind seeing Arafat captured, stripped naked, and then forced to run to the Pali-controlled area with a couple of buxom, masked women wearing dominatrix outfits whipping his sorry butt the whole way. (I have odd fantasies, don't I?)

30 posted on 04/21/2003 3:31:32 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Heavily armed, easily bored, and off my medication)
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