[Vigilantcitizen]

"Without Saudi oil/fuel/runways, I don't think we have the ability to launch the number of sorties that we did during Desert Storm."

We don't have to use Saudi bases. We have Turkey to the North, the south end of Iraq is near water so we could use Naval air power.

[Dallas]

Re:#48
China hasn't made any requests for us to lay off Iraq, but Russia has. But I agree,...China will take advantage of us given the opportunity.

Re:#49
True, but during Desert Storm we flew thousands of sorties a day. As things stand now, we don't have that ability.