Posted on 08/15/2002 12:40:41 PM PDT by kattracks
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug 15, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Iraqi authorities have ordered Baghdad residents to stay put and warned that their money and property will be confiscated if they leave the city without permission, according to a well-informed source. The measures were taken, the source said, to prevent people fleeing in anticipation of a U.S. military strike.Copyright 2002 by United Press International.
Now, we take out his eyes, ears, and targeting computers in one microsecond and he has no way of "containing" the good folks that want to RUN!. We give them an hour or so to beat feet to a safe place then pick off the targets 50 or 60 at a time.
You think the last war was fast. This will be over faster that a Bill Clinton "drop trou".
My quess is that the CIA is probably getting more intel than they can handle on target opportunities within the country.
How could Bush not resist to hit if he has intel coming out his ears?
But, Gw has to finish the job. By that I mean take out Saddamn and all his kids in one attack.
This segment of the market was quoted as "surging" just last week and they were rated as a "must buy" on Tuesday.
Maybe it's time for foreign investors to corner the market.
The problem with waiting much longer is each day gives Saddam a chance to get agents in place to do something ugly. Imagine if Bush waits one week too long and Saddam orchestrates the deaths of thousands of American civilians. Despite all this intelligence, you can never be certain. Better to lose a few hundred troops tomorrow than a few thousand civilians a week from now.
The Baghdad Camel Market is somewhat turbulent at the moment. A bold investor purchasing today might become rich overnight. However, unable to leave Baghdad legally, a law abiding investor must weigh all considerations. I personally would invest in false camel humps. Not necessarilly legal, but the profit potential is beyond temptation.
Actually, it's is rather different. The Geneva Convention, which didn't yet exist in 1945, clearly states that when an enemy combatant intentionally either hides in a residential area or forces civilians to act as a human shield around him, then you're fully justified in killing that combatant anyway. And the "collateral damage" is to be considered the fault of the enemy combatant, not you.
The only thing stopping us from nuking Baghdad, if it comes to that, is any worries we might have about bad press. And since the Bush Administration is going to get bad press no matter what (especially outside the US), we have nothing to lose.
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug 15, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Iraqi authorities have ordered Baghdad residents to stay put and warned that their money and property will be confiscated if they leave the city without permission, according to a well-informed Iraqi Kurdish source.
The measures were taken, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity, to prevent people fleeing the capital in anticipation of a U.S. military strike.
According to unconfirmed reports, government officials in Baghdad have been selling their properties and changing their Iraqi dinars for hard currency.
The new measures were also aimed at preventing people from avoiding being recruited into militias, such as the Popular Army, Saddam Forces and the Jerusalem Army, the source said.
Copyright 2002 by United Press International.
Nah, he'll just demand a much larger amount of money be secretly wired to him by the Iraqis next for next month's services, so he can at least have one large massive payout before the banks in Baghdad turn to glass.
Number one, to save American lives
Number two, to show these craven Muslim radicals that we will destroy all they hold dear.
Number three, to make an example to the rest of the world of what happens to those that attack American soil.
Number four, brutes only respect power, kindness is sneered at by them, so show them what real power is.
Number five, because Americans will not tolerate terrorism, Americans are use to freedom from such concerns and if we have to kill everyone else on the planet to rettain our lazy carefree weekends then so be it.
Back in college, during the Gulf War, my friends and I came up with a sitcom called "Four's a Jihad." IIRC, the plot of the first episode had something to do with a cookout on the balcony where one of the guys discovered that Mr. Furley had bought regular porcine hot dogs instead of something safe like turkey franks, and they spent fifteen minutes trying to get the hot dogs off all the Muslims' and Jews' paper plates in the style of an old "I Love Lucy" episode.
And yes, Mr. Furley was Mr. Furley. No change from the original.
Why is it that even though we're the ONLY country that follows the Geneva Convention during wartime, and our enemies invariably flount it is the most bloody, inhumane ways, WE'RE the only ones that get pissed on by so-called "human rights groups" for so much as having a POW bathroom that's a 1/4 inch shorter than the Convention says it should be?
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