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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: aladin who wrote (110425)8/7/2003 4:55:37 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Hi John Cavanaugh; Re: What you fail to point out is that many of our own aircraft deployed against it have similar legs."

What's your point? It was perfectly legal for Iraq to own Foxbats. They had justifiable self defense considerations, as the US invasion proved.

Re: "The real point of the administration was the trouble the Iraqi's had gone to to hide the planes."

I suppose the administration is so stupid that they can't imagine that the Iraqis would bury the planes because they figured that their only other choice was to have them destroyed, LOL. It takes a "genius PhD" to overlook such an obvious explanation for a normal military action.

Burying planes doesn't do much good for them, but they make good sources of spare parts when you dig them up later. And the spare parts you get are in far, far, far better condition than if you'd left them where they would be blown to bits.

Re: "Before they were found, I am suprised that the press wasn't accusing the President of lying about the Iraqi Air Force - after all with no visible planes it must have never existed :-)"

Our president's lies about the reason for attacking Iraq have put a blot on our country that will last for many decades. And the best you can do is to joke about it?

Take a good hard look at the reason your joke is funny. It's because our president has now become one of those people that you wouldn't trust buying a used car from. In terms of leadership, the essential difference between post Watergate Nixon and our present Bush is that Nixon was generally believed to be a pretty smart dude.

The funniest part of all this is that the neocons, after lying us into a quagmire, fully expect to be given the right to do it again.

-- Carl
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