25,000 U.S. troops headed to gulf

[Grasshopper27]

Approximately 25,000 U.S. troops have been ordered to the Persian Gulf region starting in early January, military officials told NBC News, and the Navy has been ordered to prepare amphibious assault groups and aircraft carriers for possible action in the gulf, the latest wave in a deployment for a potential conflict with Iraq, defense officials said.

So it begins...

In response, on Saturday the Iraqi government scoffed at the preparations. ?Whoever dares to strike Iraq and its people will pay a high price,? the official Iraqi army newspaper, Al-Qadissiya, said in an editorial. ?The beating of war drums, the noise of weapons, the sending of warships, the mobilizing of armies will neither frighten nor terrorize the Iraqis.?

LOL! Be afraid Saddam, be very afraid...

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[Ime]

I still hope that the Iraqi military is wanting until we attack, and then uses the confusion to remove Sadddam. I tend to doubt it though, they had ample opportunity to remove him in 1991 and did not.

I personally think that any Iraqi with any willingness to oppose Saddam is either dead or in exile. I suspect that if it comes to war many, many innocent people are going to die. It's a shame, but I think the US should "clean up it's mess".

We helped put the brutal guy in power, we should have the balls to say "We made a mistake, and now we are going to fix it."

 

[Acanthus]

Hopefully they will do it right, we will go in fast, do what needs to be done. Liberate Iraq and lift the sanctions, so they can be free, prosperous, and have what every living person deserves. Freedom.

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

This is something that has needed to happen for a long time. Saddam is a madman who promotes terrorism to the extent of forcing members of his regime to murder each other just to prove their loyality. Any leader who would go as far as to use mustard gas on his own people needs to be taken out! This man is agressive and beligerant and he's about to get smacked back into the stone age!!

Edit: Bullshit removed..... Thanks

 

[Bulk Beef]

Here is a rant that hit my inbox a few days ago.

Snopified. No offense, but just about anything that "hits your inbox" is horsesh!t.

 

[Moonbeam]

The Iraqi's are bad. They gased the Kurds with WMD. If they use WMD against us we will teach them a lesson. We will use WMD to kill millions of them. That is the price for using WMD. We will show them. How dare they use WMD against their own people. That's our job.

It's also time for them to die so they can be free. Freedom is death. We really believe in freedom. That's what makes us great and others dead. We want to free everybody who has oil, everybody who lives under dictatorship. Give me liberty or give me death say the crying voices of the world. Get ready then. We are about to set you free.

On a related note, many people in the US have guns at home so the government doesn't take over. Everybody in Iraq is armed. There are guns in every house. That is why Iraq is free and has a government of their liking. Either that or the gun nuts are just that, nuts. No but it can't be. Oh that's right. Gore won the election and Bush is President. I remember now. All our guns were worth squat.

Have you ever looked at your own mind and laughed. If not you missed the great big joke life played on you.

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
The Iraqi's are bad.

No, the Iraqi leadership is bad. The people are fine.

 

[Moonbeam]

The people are fine. Yes, I know, that is why we must kill them so they can be free. Better dead than red. You understand I hope.

 

[vtqanh]

we may kill couple thousands people to free millions of people from suffering. Not sure if that will work; we think they are suffering, they may think otherwise...

 

[Yossarian]

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

 

[Moonbeam]

Now you've got it.

 

[zeon]

hooray for death!

 

[JellyBaby]

So "Operation It's Not For Oil, Really!" begins. Why is Iraq a threat again?

 

[Triumph]

If we fight an urban-warfare style war with Iraq (which many experts are predicting), I hope you bought your stocks in the body bag market.

 

[CFster]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
The people are fine. Yes, I know, that is why we must kill them so they can be free. Better dead than red. You understand I hope.

Nice.

It takes all kinds I guess...

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: JellyBaby
So "Operation It's Not For Oil, Really!" begins. Why is Iraq a threat again?

Gee it couldn't be WMD such as the chemical weapons that they used on Iran and the Kurds. Surely it is not that.

 

[Gaard]

Before our president says "ready...set...go", will we be shown the rock-hard evidence that has been in his possession for weeks/months?

 

[JellyBaby]

Originally posted by: Gaard
Before our president says "ready...set...go", will we be shown the rock-hard evidence that has been in his possession for weeks/months?

Let's deal with trivial matters like evidence and justification later. First we must liberate the oil from its tyrannically oppressive evil master.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Originally posted by: Triumph
If we fight an urban-warfare style war with Iraq (which many experts are predicting), I hope you bought your stocks in the body bag market.

We aren't going to fight an urban-warfare style war with Iraq. Who, by the way, are the "many experts" predicting this? Do they have an inside link to the Pentagon, or are they just guessing? That's what I thought.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
The Iraqi's are bad. They gased the Kurds with WMD. If they use WMD against us we will teach them a lesson. We will use WMD to kill millions of them. That is the price for using WMD. We will show them. How dare they use WMD against their own people. That's our job.

It's also time for them to die so they can be free. Freedom is death. We really believe in freedom. That's what makes us great and others dead. We want to free everybody who has oil, everybody who lives under dictatorship. Give me liberty or give me death say the crying voices of the world. Get ready then. We are about to set you free.

On a related note, many people in the US have guns at home so the government doesn't take over. Everybody in Iraq is armed. There are guns in every house. That is why Iraq is free and has a government of their liking. Either that or the gun nuts are just that, nuts. No but it can't be. Oh that's right. Gore won the election and Bush is President. I remember now. All our guns were worth squat.

Have you ever looked at your own mind and laughed. If not you missed the great big joke life played on you.

Moonbeam, have not your intellectual explorations led you to the reality that life itself is a joke?

 

[Zebo]

It's about time. We Americans Fight each other about the war more than the troops on the ground will have to fight. Two weeks tops. Saddam will be in Switerland or Saudi or dead (LOL) then we have some election and be there about 5 years reforming thier ways at thier expense (oil). Not a bad deal all in all.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Carbonyl
It's about time. We Americans Fight each other about the war more than the troops on the ground will have to fight. Two weeks tops. Saddam will be in Switerland or Saudi or dead (LOL) then we have some election and be there about 5 years reforming thier ways at thier expense (oil). Not a bad deal all in all.

Heh....

We may as well just claim the entire Persian Gulf ours.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: Carbonyl
It's about time. We Americans Fight each other about the war more than the troops on the ground will have to fight. Two weeks tops. Saddam will be in Switerland or Saudi or dead (LOL) then we have some election and be there about 5 years reforming thier ways at thier expense (oil). Not a bad deal all in all.

And the entire middle east will better because of it.

 

[StageLeft]

In response, on Saturday the Iraqi government scoffed at the preparations. ?Whoever dares to strike Iraq and its people will pay a high price,? the official Iraqi army newspaper, Al-Qadissiya, said in an editorial. ?The beating of war drums, the noise of weapons, the sending of warships, the mobilizing of armies will neither frighten nor terrorize the Iraqis.?

Hey, he's right - afterall the first time not a single iraqi surrendered and the allies lost thousands upon thousands of troops in the gulf war :Q

 

[PsychoAndy]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: Carbonyl
It's about time. We Americans Fight each other about the war more than the troops on the ground will have to fight. Two weeks tops. Saddam will be in Switerland or Saudi or dead (LOL) then we have some election and be there about 5 years reforming thier ways at thier expense (oil). Not a bad deal all in all.

And the entire middle east will better because of it.

Ah, Texas. Figures.