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To: Alighieri who wrote (460261)	3/1/2009 9:52:37 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 1578068

What fiction are you babbling now. Were you there? I was dumbass....it was no fiction....You are one DUMB fukk.....

To: Alighieri who wrote (460261)	3/1/2009 10:14:18 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578068

He was contained in a defanged tin pot relic of a nation...he lasted 3 weeks against a force of 120K. First off, you totally dodged my question, which was what would it have done to our country if Saddam had taken over Saudi Arabia. But you don't know what you're talking about. Totally ignorant and confused. Defanged??? At the time he invaded Kuwait, Saddam had the fourth largest standing army in the WORLD -- 1,000,000 men, not counting reserves and paramilitary. More than 5700 tanks. There was absolutely NOTHING but the United States to stop Saddam from taking the oil. Meanwhile, the Saudis had 58,000 men in their ENTIRE army. In the buildup through December and January, if you had been paying attention you would have heard every news organization talking about how this fight would not be a walk in the park, how we could lose 10s of thousands of lives, how, yes, we would likely win it, but it could be a very long bloody war. In short, you have no idea WTF you're talking about. As usual. When the invasion of Kuwait happened, Prince Turki was in the US on vacation and was pulled out of a movie theater directly to the White House where he spent the next 24 hours working with the CIA, helping to coordinate the strategy for removing them. This was when bin Laden tried to get the King to let HIM fight off the Iraqis; Turki literally laughed at bin Laden, and this was when the Crown concluded that bin Laden had lost his mind -- he thought his 100,000 fighters could turn away Saddam and the Crown knew that was idiotic and told him so. The Crown Prince was concerned if the Americans were called in they would never leave, but he could also see that the country would be overrun by Iraq within days or weeks. After Cheney gave the King his word that American forces would leave when the job was done, he said to Cheney, "Come as fast as you can and bring all you have." The Saudis clearly understood the threat they were facing. The point is, everyone in the region knew that Saddam was not going after Kuwait, but was going after the big prize of Saudi Arabia. For some reason, 15 years later, you don't know that. I'm not quite sure how you missed it. Finally, where you got the idea we only had 120,000 troops in the fight I don't know. It was more like a half million.