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2003-03-03 Iraq

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Posted by Steve White 2003-03-03 04:11 pm|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Turning a surface-to-air missle into a surface-to-surface missle? That's an odd one.

So far the Iraqis claim they've destroyed ten missles. Do you suppose they had ten laying around that weren't working, hanger queens, that they could spare for crushing?

Posted by Chuck 2003-03-03 08:11:21|| [blog.simmins.org] 2003-03-03 08:11:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Supposedly they did another 7 today - all the while threatening to quit if the U.S. still prepared for war. Sammy doesn't understand that it isn't a Catch-22 if we don't play along

Posted by Frank G 2003-03-03 09:32:00|| 2003-03-03 09:32:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Hanger Queens? LOL that is a very true Air Force statement that I recognize.... As a HH-60 Pave Hawk crew Chief with 3 days left here in Korea a.k.a. the Sea Of Fire.

I'm ready to ROLL

Posted by Bobbing4Kittens 2003-03-03 09:43:21|| 2003-03-03 09:43:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, there's another explanation, and that is perhaps we are not destroying what we think we are destroying. Beyond just hangar queens.

During the campaign in the former yugoslavia we conducted some quite heavy bombing runs. However, once we actually got in on the ground to take a look we realized that milosovic and his military had conducted a successful deception campaign to our air assets and we did not actually destroy a whole lot of anything important.

we also know that iraq had "advisors" in the former yugoslavia at the time.

The reports of the trenches around baghdad that are to be filled with oil and burned are pure yugo tactics.

So perhaps some of saddam's cockyness comes from the fact that he knows something most of us don't

we are not bombing anything really important anyway.

-DS
"the horns hold up the Halo"

Posted by DeviantSaint 2003-03-03 10:47:35|| [www.livejournal.com/~deviantsaint] 2003-03-03 10:47:35|| Front Page Top

#5 9:45AM - the Nimitz just pulled away - good sailing and safe trip

Posted by Frank G 2003-03-03 11:56:32|| 2003-03-03 11:56:32|| Front Page Top

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