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2003-05-04 Korea

North Drawing Lessons From Saddamâs Fall

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Posted by Frank G 2003-05-04 08:50 am|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Maybe an opportunity to grab some useful defectors?

Posted by someone 2003-05-04 09:06:16|| 2003-05-04 09:06:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Long stem grass with special dipping sauce

Posted by Lucky 2003-05-04 10:25:58|| 2003-05-04 10:25:58|| Front Page Top

#3 A nice little ideological purge. That'll help.

Tick, tick, tick...

Posted by mojo 2003-05-04 13:57:35|| 2003-05-04 13:57:35|| Front Page Top

#4 The betrayal of Sammy's military leaders occurred BECAUSE of the U.S.'s superior military capablities, with large doses of psyop. The military leaders did not want to go into the JDAM blender. Maybe the NK leaders need a psyop experiment, just for grins.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-05-04 16:09:31|| 2003-05-04 16:09:31|| Front Page Top

#5 were closely analyzing the Iraq war to learn lessons from it

Hmmm....this bothers me. Sure...it's nice to think of all those Kim J. butt kissers getting their just desserts. But......let's step back for a moment. Is this just Kimmy paranoia...or is his intel correctly predicting and planning for their "future".

Am I the only one who thinks...whoa! the implications of this article is that Kim is making plans to prevent his senior officers from defecting in the way that Sadaam's did. The point being that...in order for Kimmy's senior officers to do that...there needs to be a WAR against NKOR like there was against Sammy.

Are we planning a war against the NKOR's? Or is this just a ploy? Are we planning to just sit back and watch him self destruct, shooting his most senior officers while his army starves to death... or ..... does Kimmy have a point...he needs to evaluate the mistakes of Sadaam????

Posted by Becky 2003-05-04 16:23:55|| 2003-05-04 16:23:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Becky, I think this is just Plain Kimmy Paranoia: The Lackeys of dictators have always been chosen because of loyalty, not intelligence. When it comes to Kimmy, intelligence is strictly downside.

Let them draw lessons from GW II. Because they want to make sure Kimmy will like what he hears, they'll be drawing the WRONG lessons. Advantage us.

Posted by Ptah 2003-05-04 19:20:22|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-05-04 19:20:22|| Front Page Top

#7 "....betrayal of Iraq's military leaders rather than superior U.S. military capabilities,..."

Who wants to be the first dead man to stand up and tell Kimmie that his army centered policy may not be all it is cracked up to be?

Posted by john 2003-05-04 20:48:06|| 2003-05-04 20:48:06|| Front Page Top

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