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Iraq army cancels leaves, mounts patrols to hunt down deserters
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| 7/24/02
Posted on 07/24/2002 2:06:03 PM PDT by knak
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To: knak
I have changed my mind on this issue. Going to war with Iraq is silly and a waste of money. We need to bring all of our troops home, along with all of our "foreign aid" money, and our UN money, and let all of these countries do their own fighting until they have killed each other off. Then, when we can mail all of that money back to everybody who paid taxes last year in the form of a rebate and watch the economy pick up faster than it already is.
What do you think?
To: knak
Oh Yeah, well it's still gonna be the "mother of all wars" ya know!
(The final cringes of a terrified man and pathetic his army. Frankly, I am suprised Saddam isn't the only one left in Iraq. Drinking scotch and muttering to himself.)
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posted on
07/24/2002 2:57:40 PM PDT
by
Jhoffa_
To: dead
It could be that we're just gonna jerk them around every 28 days. Think of it as PMS. (Pre-motherofallbattles-syndrome)
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posted on
07/24/2002 3:06:29 PM PDT
by
Redcloak
To: mhking
Not til October, about 2 weeks before election day.
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posted on
07/24/2002 3:15:57 PM PDT
by
gunshy
To: aristeides
Thanks for the link. Interesting developments. I would imagine, if it's August, the carrier groups will start moving any day now.
Wouldn't reserve callups be coming very soon too?
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posted on
07/24/2002 3:17:05 PM PDT
by
dead
To: knak
Iraq Army...patrols to hunt down deserters... Desertion: also known as French Leave.
Can't pass up a twofer.
To: dead
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posted on
07/24/2002 3:39:50 PM PDT
by
blam
To: spitbolt
Iraq has a sizable Christian minority... I read somewhere that Tariq Aziz (formerly the Iraqi foreign minister, and now the deputy prime minister) is a Christian.
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posted on
07/24/2002 3:50:13 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
To: dead
if it's August, the carrier groups will start moving any day now The USS Abraham Lincoln just collected its air wing, including the latest variant of the F/A-18, and put to sea. Still, I'm guessing September at the earliest.
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posted on
07/24/2002 3:53:01 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
To: knak
In other news, the Iraqi Republican Guards surrendered to a French camera crew for the fifth time today....
To: JimSEA
That would actually be the "Mother of all Surrenders"
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posted on
07/24/2002 4:05:34 PM PDT
by
fogarty
To: knak
Run Away! Run Away!
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posted on
07/24/2002 4:06:02 PM PDT
by
PsyOp
To: Tallguy
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You can bet that any air suppression campaign will start in late September or early October, the way I'm looking at things. The most important mission early on will be SCUD suppression. This mission
will include the entire Israeli Air Force. We will
not be about the business of being "politically correct", since the Saudi's have been playing a double game and Bush has had quite enough of them.
At the same time, Special Forces will begin commando raids aginst selected targets. Think of it as hit and run guerilla warfare on the model of Stirling's first SAS units in North Africa in 1941. SEALS, SF, the Aussie SF, Force Recon, DELTA, and of course, the granddaddy of them all, the Special Air Service regiment, will be rampaging all over Iraq hitting targets of opportunity and assassinating "uncooperative" Iraqi generals while leaving the more pliant ones alive for postwar reconstruction. This war will be sniper heaven, btw.
Don't be surprised if Uday, for instance, ends up dead or captured.
If there is anything to this pre-Election Assault rumor, than look for October to be the month when infantry starts moving in to accept "cease resistance" leaflets from Iraqi commanders (this avoids the humiliation of surrender) while they move in and annihilate the bitter enders.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
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posted on
07/24/2002 4:14:26 PM PDT
by
section9
To: section9
The moon is also new on Sept 9. I am putting my money on the air war starting on the 1 year anniversary of the terrorist attack.
What a way to commerate 9-11 than with fireworks over Baghdad!
To: knak
Weird. We haven't done anything and they are already scattering.
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posted on
07/24/2002 5:23:47 PM PDT
by
LibKill
To: section9
I expect that the Scud Hunt will be conducted mostly on the ground, and most probably staged out of Kurdish & Jordanian territory. The USAF wasn't too effective at suppressing the scud activity from the air last go 'round. I don't expect that we'll be any better this time when we are expecting the Navy to carry the load. Those F/A-18's have pretty short legs.
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posted on
07/24/2002 6:03:15 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
To: LibKill
Weird. We haven't done anything and they are already scattering. The word is out. The Americans are pissed and looking for a fight. And they win. Desert Storm wasn't all that long ago and Afghanistan was just a few months ago.
Also they expect W to finish what his dad started. It is a cultural thing. Blood feuds last for centuries over there. 12 years is yesterday.
a.cricket
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