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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (133139)2/19/2001 10:00:38 PM
From: TimF   of 1581611
 
As for Hussein, I have nothing but contempt for him and wished they had finished him off ten years ago. However, at this point, I think that he is nothing more than a paper tiger......a year of war and ten years of economic embargo have done their job.

His army is probably stronger now then it was after the war, but it is much weaker then before the war. It can't stand up to the US army in its wildest dreams, but what if Iraq has nuclear weapons in 5 years? (What if it has a couple now?) Iraq still has the strength to take Kuwait again and perhaps plant a nuke in Kuwait city threatening to blow it if we interfere. Or maybe Riyadh gets hit with a neve gas warhead. I'm not saying this is likely. Just that Saddam is still a threat. The threat will increase if the sanctions and close watch on Iraq are dropped without some way to monitor and stop Saddam's special weapons programs. It would have been nice if we could have eliminated this threat 10 years ago, but if we had marched on Baghdad we would probably still be there. Not that there was any armed force that could have stoped us, but if we kicked out Saddam we would have had to take control.


From what were they defending themselves? Was there a recent attack on British and American planes? I found no evidence of such.

I think American and British planes ahd radar locked on to them without any recent actual SAM attacks. You could consider it a threat instead of an attack. Its kindof like someone pulling a gun at you without fireing it.

Tim
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