IRAQ TOO TOUGH?

New York Post ^ | 8/29/02 | RALPH PETERS

[Poohbah]

"Listen, Holmes, you got yourself 10 seconds to digest me those weapons, or I'm going to rip your head off of your neck and s**t into your lungs!"

[Poohbah]

Well, our troops went through Saddam's sad-sacks faster than Lizzie Grubman can drive an SUV through a Hamptons party.

ROTFLMAO!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

When Saddam invaded Kuwait, the armchair generals assured us that the Iraqi military was battle-hardened,

Sounds like:

"I've promised him 50 legions of my Sardukar crack terror troops..." ---- Emperor Shadaam IV

Yeah, big deal.
Muad Dib! Muad Dib! Muad Dib! Muad Dib!

[Travis McGee]

What makes his words carry even more meaning is that several American snipers have their crosshairs on the Afghan's boy loving head.

And he knows it.

[Poohbah]

Yes.

Todd Beamer's name has become a killing word.

[wattsmag2]

He's a good author,but he is a fool if he can't see beyond a relatively easy victory,and realize that winning a war in one thing,occupying a country with a still hostile culture that is surrounded by other hostile countries that share that culture is something else.

We don't need to occupy Iraq, only the oil fields. No gigabucks, no problem.

[Travis McGee]

Note the Oakley type shades, hat backwards, dive watch, cutoff sleaves, stylish beard, "disrespecting you" scarf and bracelet.

If he's not a west coast ("Hollywood Frogman") SEAL than I would be amazed.

[Travis McGee]

See #30 for suggested war plan.

[Poohbah]

Note also the guy's arms.

I think your assessment is correct. Which coasts have the odd and even numbers again?

[wattsmag2]

Post 30. Succinct, to the point, I like it.

[sneakypete]

BTW, nice to see ya back around here Sneakypete !

Thanks,but it's not going to last long. I have already drawn the attention of a couple of Bush-Bots,one of whom has already asked me if I'm "trying to be banned again.".

[Travis McGee]

Left coast is odd.

[Travis McGee]

Plus it has the advantage of fitting on a bumper sticker and being easily understood by Joe Sixpack.

[Centurion2000]

bump

[Travis McGee]

Scroll past them the way you step over a dog turd: you don't stoop to examine them closely.

[Poohbah]

Left coast is odd.

We all know that. :o)

[iconoclast]

occupying a country with a still hostile culture that is surrounded by other hostile countries that share that culture is something else.

You are absolutely right on the mark, pete. Even with forces debilitated by the reign or the odious one, I don't think beatin the buzzards will be any tougher than last time. But this time the plan apparently is to stick around afterwards for 15 years or so (maybe a couple of generations) civilizing (er, "nation building") these a$$holes!

[iconoclast]

depriving them of oil revenue which can be used for terrorist operations.

"Them"? Who them? All the arab?

Get real!

[Travis McGee]

You mentioned his arms: those are really typical. SEALs have a lot of pass/fail acid tests, and climbing is one of them, like climbing a wire ladder up the side of a ship carrying heavy gear and weapons. If you can't do it all day, you can't be in the teams, so they all wind up with huge arms.

[sneakypete]

But the potential was there that if Iraq had attacked that we would have run out of AT weapons long before Iraq ran out of tanks and then it would have been all over.

I surely don't have any "inside info",but there was never a chance of the Iraqi armor battalions making a massed attack. A couple of "Fuel/Air Bombs" would have wiped them off the face of the desert. No matter how hard Peters and the armor mafia try to ignore it,the days of massed armor attacks against a sophisticated enemy with control of the air are over.

Iraq might attack as soon as we begin to deploy (I would). They may retreat to their cities (I would, if I couldn't defeat the bridgehead/entry). What happens next is speculation.

I think it is VERY likely both will happen. Seems like I read a report a couple of days ago that even says Hussein has his forces busy right now moving their headquarters and operations centers into city centers so that the US is more likely to not bomb them because they will be next to places like hospitals and orphanages. Seems he plans on having his Republican Guard doing most of their fighting in the cities in the hope that he can "bleed out" enough US troops to force a ceasefire and a settlement leaving him (or his desiginate) in charge. I believe all this to be the case.