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2003-03-11 Iraq

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Posted by JDR 2003-03-11 03:26 pm|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The link to the article won't attach. I found this at the Sun: http://www.thesun.co.uk

Posted by JDR 2003-03-11 14:48:27|| 2003-03-11 14:48:27|| Front Page Top

#2 This looks like a job for . . . Big BLU!

Posted by Mike 2003-03-11 15:24:13|| 2003-03-11 15:24:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey, check out the Game Cube in Room #5.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2003-03-11 16:14:55|| 2003-03-11 16:14:55|| Front Page Top

#4 I agree with Mike. If I were Saddam, this is the last place I would hide.

Posted by Patrick Phillips 2003-03-11 16:47:43|| 2003-03-11 16:47:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Sammy has nowhere to run. He's meat.
Ya know, I swear I can't look at that diagram and not think of The Sims.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2003-03-11 17:03:36|| 2003-03-11 17:03:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Favored way of getting rid of unwanted Sims: wait for them to fall asleep, and then wall up their rooms.

Oh Saddam...

Posted by Crescend 2003-03-11 18:22:49|| 2003-03-11 18:22:49|| Front Page Top

#7 A lot of good Hitler's bunker did for Hitler. And if Sammy is dopey enough to go in there, he'll get what he deserves. Just weld those doors shut and plug every air vent you can find. It'll make a fine time capsule to open a decade later.

Seriously, I've seen photos of Sammy during the Gulf War and he was moving around inside unadorned trucks. I don't thing he's going to be dumb enough to spend much time in this overdecorated hole in the ground.

Posted by Tom 2003-03-11 18:41:12|| 2003-03-11 18:41:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe he'll trade his kingdom for a horse... err... donkey?

Posted by tcc 2003-03-11 18:46:33|| 2003-03-11 18:46:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Great job at having the hideout designed by the Germans , that is why US Army tested TODAY the new Massive Ordnance Air Blast, or MOAB, by dropping it from a military transport plane over a test site at Eglin, 60 miles east of Pensacola, Florida, just after 2 p.m.

MOAB, privately known in military circles as "the mother of all bombs," has been under development since late last year. The bomb carries 18,000 pounds of tritonal explosives, which have an indefinite shelf life. It replaces the Vietnam-era "Daisy Cutter," a 15,000-pound bomb with 12,600 pounds of the less-powerful GSX explosives.

As originally conceived, the MOAB was to be used against large formations of troops and equipment or hardened above-ground bunkers. The target set has also been expanded to include deeply buried targets.

But military officials announce that the MOAB is mainly conceived as a weapon employed for "psychological operations." Military officials say they hope the MOAB will create such a huge blast that it will rattle Iraq troops and pressure them into surrendering or not even fighting. Officials suggest perhaps the Iraqis might even mistake a MOAB blast for a nuclear detonation.

The MOAB is deployed on a pallet from a C-130 aircraft. It initially has a parachute, but as it deploys, the Inertial Navigation System and Global Positioning System take over. The bomb also has wings and grid fins for guidance.
So no chance of missing the FUEHRER BUNKER

Posted by ISHMAIL 2003-03-11 19:26:18|| 2003-03-11 19:26:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Which room's the Cyanide Room?

Posted by tu3031 2003-03-11 20:31:39|| 2003-03-11 20:31:39|| Front Page Top

#11 Sounds as if when the last Ba'athist MF dies, Saddam will still be alive to pay for ALL ba;athist crimes!YipYipYooHooHooahh!!

Posted by jon lemming 2003-03-11 22:13:22|| 2003-03-11 22:13:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Where are the air vents?

Posted by mojo 2003-03-11 22:37:06|| 2003-03-11 22:37:06|| Front Page Top

#13 According to the book "Saddam bomb maker" during the Gulf war, Saddam hid in different and a random house every night.

He just picked a house and went there for the night. Knowing he was safe as the US were not going to bomb civilian houses.

Posted by bernardz 2003-03-12 04:04:55|| 2003-03-12 04:04:55|| Front Page Top

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