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2003-04-04 Iraq

US forces find a tunnel underneath Saddam Int'l Airport

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-04-04 12:27 pm|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Iraq's Info. Minister said that they were going to do something at the airport tonight. Could it be their intention to flood it, through the captured tunnel? We'll see. I strongly oppose use of limited-war methodology against genocidal animals, such as those who rule Iraq. My solution to the crisis, would have been to use nuclear blackmail to force the liquidation of the entire jihadi movement on a global scale. Under threat of annihilation, each Mideast entity would have been ordered to deliver - dead or alive - each and every known or suspected member of a jihadi organization, including the clergy who issue genocidal khutbah, every Friday. Rogue states and entities - including the palestine authority, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Somalia - would be required to give up power. Threat of annihilation has a way of producing consensus. Smart bombs are too good for this enemy.

Bush-Cheney's insane "50 year" counter terror plan is pure snakeoil. Those who back it, are human doormats. I'll give you something to chew on.
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Posted by Anonon 2003-04-04 13:34:23|| 2003-04-04 13:34:23|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm more worried about a human wave attack, with women and children in front. That would fit with these guys tactics and current capabilities. Hope some of our guys think about this and are ready to target the rear of such an assault. Have the cameras rolling too.

Posted by Steve 2003-04-04 13:47:48|| 2003-04-04 13:47:48|| Front Page Top

#3 AP reports the following:

"Flashes from what appeared to be machine guns could be seen from the southern end of the presidential Old Palace complex on the west bank of the Tigris River"

Machine gun fire in the very center of Bagdad? Spec. Ops guys? Uprising? Coup? Trigger happy Baathists? Futile pot shots at aircraft?

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-04-04 14:54:46|| 2003-04-04 14:54:46|| Front Page Top

#4 More on "tonight's" actions:

"We will do something that will be a great example for these mercenaries," Sahaf threatened chillingly.

He added that five columns of Iraqi armour have been airlifted to the airport and that the army would conduct "martyrdom operations" but denied weapons of mass destruction would be used.

I dont' think Iraq has five columns of armor LEFT. How are they going to "airlift" them to the airport when they have absolutely no chance of sending an aircraft aloft, much less of transporting multiple columns of armor anywhere? Unless the Russkies are going to help, which will end up with a lot of Russian aircraft shot down in Iraq, really muck up the works.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-04-04 16:09:24|| 2003-04-04 16:09:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Anonon: And what would you do when one of the countries you named dared us to nuke them? Do it? I'm sorry, and as much as I want to see Iraq glow in the dark if they use chem/bio or anything else in the WMD department on us, I'm afraid that your solution would be criminal and just a little insane.

We are better than that. We should be better than that. We must be better than that. Wholesale slaughter and murder of the type you advocate is beneath us - and it's beneath you as well I think.

Do not sink to the levels of our enemies. It makes us as bad as they are.

Keep in mind the following statement,

"Evil flourishes when good men fail to act"
Edmund Burke, 1634

We need to be the "good men" that Burke was speaking about. Fight, and fight hard and even dirty when necessary, but do not become the evil that we fight.

Posted by FOTSGreg 2003-04-04 16:32:14|| 2003-04-04 16:32:14|| Front Page Top

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