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US may seize Arab airports by force to attack Iraq: report
XINHUA NEWS AGENCY
| 8/11/02
Posted on 08/12/2002 9:55:20 AM PDT by kattracks
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Pure propaganda to rile up the Arab states.
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posted on
08/12/2002 9:55:20 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
This could happen. Airstrips could be seized or built inside Iraq, and also inside other countries. Such airstrips would themselves be vulnerable to nuclear attack, but there is a plan to counter that.
To: kattracks
I don't think that the arab states are going to believe this. This is just stupid.
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posted on
08/12/2002 10:01:18 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: kattracks
More like pure propaganda to rile up the Chinese citizenry, IMHO.
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posted on
08/12/2002 10:04:03 AM PDT
by
SunStar
To: kattracks
This article smells of horsehockey.
To: kattracks
I kinda' like it - take the Saudi airfields (that we built), then follow up with siezure of thier (our) oil fields!!
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posted on
08/12/2002 10:04:46 AM PDT
by
Psalm 73
To: Psalm 73
Balderdash!
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posted on
08/12/2002 10:06:50 AM PDT
by
cajungirl
To: SunStar
More like pure propaganda to rile up the Chinese citizenry, IMHO. I think we'll discover that this was printed in some wacko Lebanese newspaper and Xinhua is merely reporting it.
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posted on
08/12/2002 10:08:19 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: kattracks
I especially like the bit about us "allowing Israel" to defend itself. . . We all know what it means: lob one SCUD with an NBC warehead, or god forbid, whatever tiny nuke Saddam can build, and VOILA! Baghdad goes away in a cluster of mushroom-shaped clouds. As does any major Iraqi facility not in the US-patrolled areas. . .
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posted on
08/12/2002 10:10:08 AM PDT
by
Salgak
To: kattracks
LOL, I needed a good laugh today... Thanks.
To: kattracks
Hah. The US should seize the Saudis by the throat and shake vigorously, then seize the oilfields and the airbases. Then piece the territory up between Israel and Jordan (bet they would be thrilled to get in charge of Mecca :). Or even put Israel in charge of Mecca, it would be a nice payback for the infestation on the Temple Mount.
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posted on
08/12/2002 10:10:43 AM PDT
by
Cachelot
To: kattracks
More Chinese meddling.
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posted on
08/12/2002 10:11:48 AM PDT
by
TADSLOS
To: RightWhale
Air strips could be built and siezed inside Iraq - why then bother with siezing them outside Iraq?
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posted on
08/12/2002 10:13:05 AM PDT
by
jdege
To: kattracks
What you said.
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posted on
08/12/2002 10:14:10 AM PDT
by
dighton
To: All
Do you remember when Xinhua published an article from
The Onion about how COngress wanted a new retractable roof Capitol so they could "better compete" with other legislatures?
Oh my god it was funny!
the Chinese love to be a pain in the ass, the arab populations are very very susceptible to propaganda because they are so ill educated on the whole. So, I wouldn't discredit the effect anything has on the arab world.
To: Cachelot
Hah. The US should seize the Saudis by the throat and shake vigorously, then seize the oilfields and the airbases. Then piece the territory up between Israel and Jordan (bet they would be thrilled to get in charge of Mecca :). Or even put Israel in charge of Mecca, it would be a nice payback for the infestation on the Temple Mount. Good thinking. Have you run this by Rumsfeld? He might like it.
To: kattracks
Pure lies. Why make your enemies angry? Saddam's neighbors won't shed a tear when he is dead.
To: stromsfriend
You've got to be kidding. They published something from the Onion? lol
To: jdege
why then bother with siezing them outside Iraq? Axis of Evil and Axis of Almost-as-Evil countries cannot resist the forces of modern civilization. Iraq is just another on the list. In the nuclear age, having just one base or a group of bases in a small area is asking for disaster.
To: kattracks
The
report PLA suggested that the Arab world should take the US war preparations against Iraq "very seriously" and recommended a
diplomatic counter offensive
by from Lebanon
to consolidate by a joint Sino-Arab
camp force.
The Chinese will do whatever it takes to insure that their flow of oil from the middle east is not interrupted by the US. If this means initiating a full-scale war between the US/Israel and the Arabs, they will. They are forgetting our other friends though - Turkey, Russia, and India. Once China is exposed as the leader of the Axis of Evil, they will truly be the lone turd in the punchbowl. China's days are numbered.
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posted on
08/12/2002 10:39:20 AM PDT
by
11B3
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