Posted on 02/09/2003 6:54:26 PM PST by MindBender26
An Open Letter To USAF RAF RAAF Iraq Task Force TacAir targeting planners.
Ladies and Gentlemen, a moment of your frenzied time, if you please.
We know you are quite busy. Trying to allocate a finite number of warloads to an ever-expanding number of targets is getting difficult. It will only get worse as there are mission scrubs, targeting failures, low-order bursts, targets of opportunity, etc. With that in mind, I ask you to give serious consideration to a target that may not be on your current list.
One of the major traffic circles in downtown Baghdad is dominated by a concrete arch of two arms with hands intertwined at the top. It is said to be Saddams favorite monument to himself.
Supposedly Saddams hands and arms were used as the models for this ridiculous waste of concrete. The symbolism here is that Saddam is the protector of the Iraqi people, that Saddam is holding the people to his bosom, that his strong arms will prevent anything evil from befalling the Iraqi people and all the rest of that HHS. (For the inexperienced, HHS is a short, very secret military acronym for Happy Horse****.)
As we all know, PsyWar is critically important when dealing with any enemy. It is even more important when dealing with a government that can be cut off from the support of its people. If you have any doubts, ask any Iraqi who watched all the Arclight strikes in 91, or the loyal citizens who watched the anti-war protesters here in the early 70s.
Simply put, blow the Sierra out of those hand and arm things, please. It may not topple Saddam. It may not stop some T-72 tank from moving to the front, but it will certainly teach the Iraqis that nothing is safe, nothing is off limits.
I hate those things every time I see video of them, and will love it so much, that if they become concrete dust, Ill even buy you a round at the O Club.
Gopher It!
Waaaaaaaaaaa!!! Can you please help me out? They just gave me an atomic wedgie.
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