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Politics : Stop the War!

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To: Doug R who wrote (4257)	3/28/2003 3:19:41 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (1) of 21614

... the message is clear; if you don't have nukes, air supremacy, or ecm/emp then you really don't have much of a game... ...when patton raced out of the normandy beachead and across france, the orders were to shoot prisoners... such was also routine on the east front where the axis and soviets fought with utmost brutality... now a couple or three prisoners may have been shot and blair has his panties all in a knot... guffaw the 'coalition' hasn't even really seen any casualties yet; and if they wait it out and simply cut off baghdad without going in except with airstrikes; they won't likely see more than a couple of hundred coalition dead the way things are going... on the other hand who knows yet how many iraqis might die before the coalition calls it a day... politics in 'post-war' iraq certainly will be 'interesting'... ...looks like the turks will take the money for now... they probably figure they can take the oilfields later, after the americans have left... that might be wishful thinking but for now they stand pat... and with the insertion of the u.s. troops in the north the turks may have lost their real opportunity for intervention... another pair of wild cards are the iranians and the saudis... if there were a revolution in saudi arabia and the iranians attacked at the same time, that tiny bottleneck known as kuwait would be cut... then the u.s. would probably have to be assisted by idf intervention... another wild card is whether the iraqis already have nukes and how willing they would be to use them... you can bet that israel will use her nukes at any time she sees fit... here's an interesting perspsective: 911-strike.com and of course the latest from the 'ru' site: aeronautics.ru aeronautics.ru i think it's interesting that the u.s. appears to be attacking on a shoestring... that for instance the 4th (mech) inf wasn't there to begin with... it appears their equipment was left onboard ships, even after the turks voted down their entry into turkey... in hindsight those ships should have immediately gone around and unloaded in kuwait... only now is this happening... another question is why they didn't - after the failure of the turkish parliament - unload into israel and use the jordanian route... i mean obviously jordanians are good little puppets and no one could have really said or done anything... impressive is the story of the 7th cav of the 3rd (mech) inf holding those bridges under constant fire for 48 hours... coalition cas certainly helped interestingly, even the t-72s and t-80s of the 'elite republican guard' will be no match against coalition tanks... it's been pointed out that iraqis simply don't man or 'crew' those tanks up to their full capabilities... in other words these are soviet tanks but not soviet crews... i don't understand the reports of '1000-vehicle' iraqi column(s) approaching coaltion forces... it makes no sense that they would string themselves out on a road like that in the face of coalition air... i would think they would restrict their own movements to situations where the coalition air couldn't hit them... from the sound of it one of these entire large iraqis columns - with hundreds of vehicles - was obliterated by b-52s and such... sounds like either a big iraqi mistake or perhaps an allied fabrication... or once again the war is at least to some extent being scripted... everything else i'm hearing though doesn't seem to point to the scripted part... it looks as though saddam has really pissed off his mob handlers for real this time... but time will tell i felt positively sorry for the 14 t-55s who 'attacked' out of basra earlier... the news was gushing about the 'biggest british armored battle since ww2'... well 14 t-55s would have been about the equivalent of 14 pz ii tanks in 1944... in other words outdated equipment simply getting slaughtered at no cost to the british... at 14 opposition tanks, the british must not have fought any tank battles since wwii; to put it into perspective there were battles in normandy where the british attacked the germans around caen with literally hundreds of tanks... if memory serves 500 or more tanks on the british side alone in certain battles... '14 t-55s'...' biggest tank battle since wwii'... i mean, can it even be considered a tank battle? finally, i found it interesting that a coalition press agent made sure to point out that the footage of liberation celebrations were 'real' and not 'staged'... as if there are actually people out there who could be so cynical...

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