Iraqi Defector makes some unnerving assertions
<a href="http://www.nyt.com/2001/12/20/international/middleeast/20DEFE.html" target="_blank">http://www.nyt.com/2001/12/20/international/middleeast/20DEFE.html</a>
Basically, this fellow helped Hussein build clean rooms and otherwise prepared labs so that they would be leak proof and/or easily decontaminated from biological and chemical agents. Says there were possibly 20 such lab, one of them under a hospital. ...
If true, Hussein is one sick bastard (maybe more so than anyone thought) and once verified, Iraq should indeed "be next." Only I have a suspicion this war won't be just like the last one. It's going to be bloody and dirty for both sides. Just hope that fuker wasn't able to smuggle any of his wonderful products out of the country.
Basically, this fellow helped Hussein build clean rooms and otherwise prepared labs so that they would be leak proof and/or easily decontaminated from biological and chemical agents. Says there were possibly 20 such lab, one of them under a hospital. ...
If true, Hussein is one sick bastard (maybe more so than anyone thought) and once verified, Iraq should indeed "be next." Only I have a suspicion this war won't be just like the last one. It's going to be bloody and dirty for both sides. Just hope that fuker wasn't able to smuggle any of his wonderful products out of the country.
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<strong>Only I have a suspicion this war won't be just like the last one. It's going to be bloody and dirty for both sides.</strong><hr></blockquote>
That's what they said the last time and for Afghanistan. Our Vietnam like quagmire was over in a snap.
I was watching on TeeVee about a group of our tanks in Iraq that ****ed up and drove into a tank "kill box" (a trap). When they realized it they figured the only way out was to blast. They were shooting on Iraqi tanks so fast that two tanks would hit the same target at the same time.
The recent air war in Afghanistan tells us the US can beat any land force ('cept for the "real" ones like China) with just a little bit of a foot hold and some cover (ie northern alliance).
If the US wanted to it could drop Iraq like a house of cards.
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I was watching on TeeVee about a group of our tanks in Iraq that ****ed up and drove into a tank "kill box" (a trap). When they realized it they figured the only way out was to blast. They were shooting on Iraqi tanks so fast that two tanks would hit the same target at the same time.
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If the US wanted to it could drop Iraq like a house of cards.
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For the first part a question, one tank got trapped, how? And two tanks would hit the same traget they were shooting at the same time? So one was trapped and one was not or two were trapped? You told the story but you left out the interesting parts and the details. (I love tanks, one of my favorite military vehicle. Abrahms tanks just rock! )
As for the second part. I agree, Saddam would likley fall as fast or faster than the Taliban. But for the rest of it, remember Gulf War syndrome? If we hit a Chimical weapons hold, it could get nasty, and if he fires chemical weapons at us, it could get nasty even with a limited ground presence. We need to keep that in mind as we are otherwise wiping the floor with this madman.
That is, troops, and not bombs will have to do most of the fighting to correct such a situation. And then there's the slug we have to lodge in Saddam's cranial region too...no second war with Iraq would be complete without roasting that bastard.
as for the Gulf War Syndrome, i would guess that it has more to do with massive vaccinations than with chemical weapons from Saddam. just a guess.
the mix of vaccines that the military troops got were very complex, who knows what all it might do in such a large population.
-alcimedes
Her husbands skin routinly erupts off his face and hands, literally just falls off, and also when he was discharged from the gulf, his medical records lad been completely lost by the UK MOD and he was basically given a new sheet with a clean bill of health!
On the other hand, she also told me that he never speaks about his experiences in the Gulf, not even when he first got back, so I do wonder if his illnesses are psychological manifestations rather than physical. But I guess I'll never know