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Could Iraq defeat the US
by JH 26 Replies latest jw friends
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nakedmvistar
All it takes is one tiny little nuke placed anywhere on U.S soil....doesn't even have to be in a populated area and you can kiss all our rights good bye! The economy collapses with the rest of world's economy in tow. Before all this, Bush goes in gun-ho-like killing Sadaam----making him a martyre to the rest of the muslim world. ....We all know how crazy people can get when promised eternal paradise. 800,000,000 muslim cry out it anger and disgust as the GREAT SATAN occupies the third most holy land in the muslim land. The rest of the planet despises the U.S as it is....No one will mourn for us! How fat and arrogant have we become in this country! Of course, nothing can happen to us, we're way to powerful<<<<<Famous last words---Excerpt from "Rise and Fall Of The Roman Empire. Good read.
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reubenfine
Bush is the most dangerous man in the world right now.
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seawolf
Well, the US spent $250 million on the most expensive wargame simulation in history--a wargame simulation between the US and Iraq--and the US lost.
At the height of the summer, as talk of invading Iraq built in Washington like a dark, billowing storm, the US armed forces staged a rehearsal using over 13,000 troops, countless computers and $250m. Officially, America won and a rogue state was liberated from an evil dictator.
What really happened is quite another story, one that has set alarm bells ringing throughout America's defence establishment and raised questions over the US military's readiness for an Iraqi invasion. In fact, this war game was won by Saddam Hussein, or at least by the retired marine playing the Iraqi dictator's part, Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper.
In the first few days of the exercise, using surprise and unorthodox tactics, the wily 64-year-old Vietnam veteran sank most of the US expeditionary fleet in the Persian Gulf, bringing the US assault to a halt.
What happened next will be familiar to anyone who ever played soldiers in the playground. Faced with an abrupt and embarrassing end to the most expensive and sophisticated military exercise in US history, the Pentagon top brass simply pretended the whole thing had not happened. They ordered their dead troops back to life and "refloated" the sunken fleet. Then they instructed the enemy forces to look the other way as their marines performed amphibious landings. Eventually, Van Riper got so fed up with all this cheating that he refused to play any more. Instead, he sat on the sidelines making abrasive remarks until the three-week war game - grandiosely entitled Millennium Challenge - staggered to a star-spangled conclusion on August 15, with a US "victory".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,787018,00.html
BTW, I find it hard to believe that the US will lose--hopefully things are better now? However, here in the midwest, people tell me to never count my chickens before they're hatched.
Edited by - seawolf on 11 December 2002 22:46:53
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seawolf
Sorry about the large text. I tried several times getting it smaller but it just doesn't save it once i submit it to the board. oh well
Edit: nevermind. it's normal size now. Maybe I was hallucinating.
Edited by - seawolf on 11 December 2002 22:43:25
Edited by - seawolf on 11 December 2002 22:43:51
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LB
pretty funny stuff
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Brummie
Could Iraq win...Don't hold your breath
Brummie <--cringing
