Iraq Tells U.S. It's No Afghanistan

Reuters ^ | 8/30/02 | Nadim Ladki

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Another mother-of-all-battles.

It's funny how Saddam's media was reporting right after the Gulf War that the superior Iraqi forces beat back the evil American invasion and declared Saddam the winner. The Iraqis have got to know that that is the biggest load of crap ever. If they still have respect for Saddam, they are the biggest bunch of idiots ever. Word around the campfire now says that the people are sick of Saddam and he's only in power because of his military and secret police that round up dissenters and shoot them.

[lepton]

"We owe it to our children, we owe it to our grandchildren to make sure that the world's worst leaders do not develop and deploy the world's worst weapons,"

Interesting use of "worst" in nearly opposed fashion. :)

[Grampa Dave]

Yeah the Talibunnies and al Qaeda goat humpers are braver and don't surrender even faster than the French do when the first shot is fired.

Iraq's targets are easier to get to by our Navy and Air Force planes than Afghanistan was.

Also, their same cracked up military leader in Desert Storm, Sad Sack Saddie Boy, will be in charge of the doomed Iraqis.

So Iraq is correct, they are not like the Talibunnies and al Qaeda goat humpers. Those guys fought hard before they died.

When we decide to take out Iraq, our Navy, AF, Marines and Army will be well armed and supplied unlike what was inherited after 8 years of the Clintoons. Afghanistan was the practice game in term of readiness. The Iraquis know that we will have more and better ways to kill thousands of them every hour when the next Islamakazi Cleansing Party is ordered by President Bush.

[lepton]

But whatever the number was, a large fraction of it was from friendly fire.

And from a single SCUD deflected from its path into a barracks.

[Grampa Dave]

Your photo is great.

What nationality are these cracked jerks representing.

It looks like they have balsa strip fake bombs attached to them. One can only hope that those are real explosives to make our explosives used on them even more effective.

[txhurl]

Islamakazi Cleansing Party is ordered by President Bush.

Which won't happen until Hussein gets a clear commitment from Ms. Amanpour as to availability for coverage.

Protocol and all...

[js1138]

Check out the Attack on Iraq Betting Pool

My bet is there will be no date of attack. We will just gradually escalate the pulverization of their war machine, inch by inch, starting with their defense systems, moving on to their air force.

[RightWhale]

they would be the dominant world culture.

They are, though, you know.

[Orual]

"The 16th Infantry Division of the Iraqi army will be bombed tomorrow. Leave this location now and save yourselves."

Time to recycle those leaflets.

[michigander]

Strange that they give suicide bombers magazines for their guns. Although, considering the way they treat them, they probably don't trust the women with loaded guns.

[Grampa Dave]

Yeah if this thing actually goes to war maybe we can borrow one of those signs from a burger franchise that can show over 1 million Islamkazis fried as of today.

The Iraqis know better than any other group of Islamkazis what "You are either with or against us!" Or "Choose life or death, the choice is yours!" really means. The other Islamakazi countries will just have to wait their turn.

[Grampa Dave]

Hmm! There is not a single clip any of the old AK 47's that these Iraqi women have.

Is there a reason why their guns don't have a clip and their Islamkazi male counterparts do have?

[dighton]

What nationality are these cracked jerks representing?

They're Iraqis: Saddam's crack urban-warfare squad, or something of that nature.

[Grampa Dave]

Your great leaflet said, ""The 16th Infantry Division of the Iraqi army will be bombed tomorrow. Leave this location now and save yourselves."

A suggested revision might be:

All of Iraq will be bombed two days from now. If you want to live, we suggest you leave Iraq now! If this page had been a bomb, you wouldn't be reading this. You will not be celebrating 9/11 any more!

[Grampa Dave]

Great! This makes me even feel better about it after seeing you picture.

We should send our gangs from LA, NYC and other areas over for some bounty hunting. Just put a $50,000 bounty on the head of each of these jokers. The Crypts and other gangs would clean them up in a few days. The Hell's Angels might want to join in for the hunting fun.

[Tailback]

Don't forget a bunch were killed by that freak scud hit on a hangar being used as a barracks. Also, there was a bunch of sailors killed by a steam pipe exploding on a ship. A lot of fratricide was committed by air assets against armored vehicles. In actual shooting battles there were probably less than 50 US soldiers actually killed by enemy fire.

[hflynn]

"We don't want to compare the two; Iraq is not Afghanistan," Ramadan told reporters in Beirut.

And if that Texan tries any rough stuff, you tell him I ain't no Taliban leader! Yeah, I heard that story....

Thank you for the dinner and a very pleasant evening. If your car could take me to the airport; Mr. Bush is a man who insists on hearing bad news immediately.

[Timm]

Russia and China oppose military action. France, another veto-bearing council member, has called for a Security Council vote with President Jacques Chirac criticising attempts to legitimise the "unilateral and pre-emptive use of force."

And in Britain, whose position is closest to the United States, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said he would consider a report by a parliamentary committee to propose a U.N. deadline to readmit weapons inspectors.

What a disaster it would be to get the U.N. involved. This is the same U.N., recall, led by the same European powers, who "condemned" ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia, lectured Milosevic impotently, stood by and did nothing while U.N. encampments were shelled, quaked when U.N. hostages were taken and displayed tauntingly on T.V., quarelled with one another as whose side they should take, and then, after all that, decided the best course would be simply to surrender and withdraw their forces.

Not that Clinton's politically motivated intervention was much better, leaving as it did the fruits of "ethnic cleansing" in place. But what does it say about the Europeans when Clinton seems like Churchill in comparison to them?

But we should opt for more lecturing and a hapless inspectorate in the face of a much more dangerous enemy, Huessein, within easy reach of a large fraction of the world's oil supply?

[Poohbah]

Actually, the leaflets should say:

Kulu qa'idatikum namlikuha

I leave the translation as an exercise for the reader.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

How did the French manage to have two killed?

Were they too slow in laying their weapons down in surrender?