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"baloney... bring it on. WE DO understand it. "

Good then you have obviously done a bit of research on the weather in that part of the world - direction of prevailing winds might give you a giggle, rainfall is also a laugher -

Your right - munitions are relevant - so is dispersal and fallout - I would remind you that it took less than 72 hours for the United States to begin enjoying the fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster -

Oh one other thing I'm sure you DO UNDERSTAND - decontamination from biological and chemical weapons of our troops and equipment - all it takes is water- lots of it - mixes with chemicals -

I'm sure you know how plentiful that little resource is even in downtown Baghdad - we can carry it with us though - give everybody an extra conteen -

The cleanup ought to be a ball - our troops, our equipment, their civilians their, infrastructure - don't forget to put out the fires - oops more water needed here -

Sorry charlie - for this one water is going to be as equaly important as diesel fuel and plasma -

But you know all about munitions and the little asides -

It's really going to be fun to tell all our troops who have doned their chemical protection equipment and who have been zapped and then tell them they can't take them off until they are decontaminated - oops swater won't be here for another 3 weeks - but they all look like they could lose a little weight anyway - how do they eat and drink in the suits - the answer is they don't.

But you knew all this about munitions -

WE are so good at coming up with better mousetraps - but we don;t know a damn thing about planning for what to do with all those dead mice.

But you knew all that.

I got news pal. If the troops get contaminated with biological weaponry and we deploy pharmaceuticals to the theatre, the citizenry of the US is sitting duck to an attack here at home. I damn well hope the White House has that scenario mapped out!

I'm sure you know...

Personally I was wondering about the electromagnetic pulse consequences.

It feels satisfying to say "We'll turn Baghdad into GLASS!!!" (in the event of WOMD use), but it just doesn't work like that. Too much collateral damage.