POLL: The repercussions of a US attack on Iraq

Discussion in 'Politics' started by candletrader, Dec 8, 2002.

Which of these is most likely?

  1. Co-ordinated large-scale bombings of shopping malls and offices (similar to September 11, but not us

    12 vote(s)
    133.3%
  2. Biological attacks on schools, malls, airports etc

    5 vote(s)
    55.6%
  3. Highly co-ordinated machine gun mow-downs of crowds by suicide gangs

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  4. One person suicide bombings (similar to that carried out by Hamas) co-ordinated across numerous smal

    30 vote(s)
    333.3%
  5. Devastating car bombs set to go off amongst traffic queues of commuters crawling into work in the ru

    3 vote(s)
    33.3%
  6. It won't be as obvious as any of the above, but it will make September 11 look like a wasp bite com

    26 vote(s)
    288.9%
  7. No repercussions

    95 vote(s)
    1,055.6%
  1. Are you crazy or somethin' dude! That gal in the middle wearing those sexy spectacles is the hottest creature I have seen for a long while... American soldiers wouldnt wanna kill em, they would want to marry em... this, sir, is our secret weapon of mass destruction... our Iraqi sex bombshells...
     
    #1231     Feb 12, 2003
  2. Ah yes, I can see it now! Mass coitus between Americans and Arabs! The end result........Detroit?
     
    #1232     Feb 12, 2003
  3. Hence the car industry there, eh.... Arab girls, American men, Arab oil, Western cars... and young Osamas popping up everywhere, into the bargain too... it's all starting to fit together nicely...
     
    #1233     Feb 12, 2003
  4. Josh_B

    Josh_B

    Tenet: North Korea has ballistic missile capable of hitting U.S.

    Wednesday, February 12, 2003 Posted: 7:14 PM EST (0014 GMT)

    ...While testifying at a Senate committee hearing in Washington, CIA Director George Tenet was asked whether North Korea had a ballistic missile capable of reaching the U.S. West Coast.

    Before answering, Tenet turned to very quickly consult with aides sitting behind him.

    "I think the declassified answer, is yes, they can do that," Tenet said....

    http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/02/12/us.nkorea/


    Another axis of evil nation N Korea.... Are we prioritizing the war efforts properly? Shouldn't we be bombing N Korea first instead of Iraq? What would happen if we start moving more troops into South Korea (supposedly an ally of ours at present). Expect a nuke in CA ?


    Josh
     
    #1234     Feb 12, 2003
  5. This war boils down to money... there are no French and Russian oil contracts to bomb out of existence in North Korea, so the USA will take the "diplomatic path" with those dangerous Korean nutters...

    However, we can't allow the Frogs and Reds to keep those lucrative oil contracts with Saddam, so we'll just go in, kill Saddam, put in our own CIA-funded guy and negotiate with him to grab those juicey deals that Russia and France thought they had... we're the good guys, so let's kill a few thousand Iraqis... they are only Muzzies, after all, eh? And lets put the Iraqi oil reserves in "trust", and use the initial revenues to pay for the war costs... that's right: bomb the Iraqis, and pay for the bombs with Iraqi oil... mark my words, that's whats gonna happen...

    This aint about Saddam, weapons of mass destruction or terrorists... the big picture is about keeping Europe economically in a resource stranglehold whilst ensuring we get the guaranteed oil supplies... the art of business at its rawest...

    For many, I am preaching to the converted... for others, I will get slammed for my "stupid, ill-conceived, unpatriotic garble"... I am happy for the reader to work out where the economic interests are in all this mess, and come to his own conclusions...
     
    #1235     Feb 13, 2003
  6. February 13, 2003

    Iraq inspectors find banned missile system
    From James Bone in New York

    Western pressure grows on Saddam Hussain to flee Baghdad

    THE chief United Nations weapons inspector will report tomorrow that Iraq has been developing a ballistic missile that is in clear violation of UN restrictions.
    The discovery of a banned weapons system on the eve of Hans Blix’s crucial presentation is tantamount to the inspectors finding a “smoking gun” — even though it was declared by Iraq to the UN as a legal programme.

    Diplomats said the announcement would strengthen London and Washington’s case that Iraq was in “material breach” of UN demands and help the two allies to win support within the Security Council for a new resolution authorising the use of force.

    The finding is also certain to provoke a confrontation when inspectors ask the Iraqi armed forces to surrender the banned missiles for destruction just as the country is preparing for an American attack.

    A panel of independent experts ruled that the Iraqi missiles could fly beyond the permitted 150km range and Dr Blix will declare the al-Samoud 2 missile a proscribed programme. But Mohammed Aldouri, Iraq’s UN Ambassador, insisted that the al-Samoud 2 missile system flew within the permitted range, and the Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister said the report was inconclusive. He described it as a technical matter rather than a violation.

    Any indication in Dr Blix’s report that Iraq is in breach of its obligations under the Security Council’s Resolution 1441 will almost certainly prompt Britain and the US to bring a war resolution to the Council in the coming days. Washington hopes that Dr Blix’s report will be sufficiently damning to stop France, Germany and other reluctant Council members blocking such a resolution.

    At the same time, however, America is canvassing the possibility of President Saddam Hussein and his top lieutenants going into exile. Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, said that would “avoid a lot of problems”.

    American officials have long encouraged Saddam to step down to avert war, but General Powell’s remarks yesterday were the clearest sign that Washington was actively pressing the matter. “We are not only discussing it, we are in touch with a number of countries that have expressed an interest in conveying this message to the Iraqi regime that time’s up and one way to avoid a lot of suffering is for the regime to step down,” General Powell said. “It would ultimately require some kind of United Nations participation in order to make sure that we can do it in a way that would actually entice him to seek asylum.”

    In a sign of the frantic diplomacy in the face of war, at least six foreign ministers, including General Powell and Jack Straw, will attend Dr Blix’s report tomorrow, when France, Russia and Germany are expected to argue in favour of bolstering inspections as an alternative for war.

    Condoleezza Rice, the US National Security Adviser, has also visited New York for private talks with Dr Blix in an effort to toughen up his report. Dr Blix spent yesterday afternoon in a private meeting with the UN inspectorate’s advisory board, which has representatives of all the major powers.

    Dr Blix sounded the alarm about Iraq’s al-Samoud 2 and al-Fatah missiles in his report to the Security Council on January 27, when he said that they “might well represent prima facie cases of proscribed systems”.

    He revealed that the liquid-fuel al-Samoud 2 had been test-fired to a distance of 183km and the solid-propellant al-Fatah to a range of 161km — both beyond the UN limit. He also noted that the al-Samoud’s 760mm diameter was increased from the earlier version, in spite of a directive from the former UN inspector Rolf Ekeus in 1994 that Iraq limit diameters to 600mm. Dr Blix suggested that the missiles also violated a second letter from Dr Ekeus in 1997, which banned the use of engines from certain surface-to-air missiles in ballistic missiles.

    Since then Dr Blix has provided more damning details in answer to Council members’ questions. Inspectors discovered that the al-Samoud 2 has exceeded the 150km limit in 13 of 40 tests and the al-Fatah has gone beyond that distance in at least eight test-firings.

    Before making a final decision on whether the missiles contravened UN rules, Dr Blix convened a meeting of outside missile experts from Britain, China, France, Ukraine, Germany and the US on Monday and Tuesday. Diplomatic sources said that those experts determined that the al-Samoud 2 exceeded the 150km range, but that the capability of the al-Fatah remained an “open question”.

    The experts also judged Iraq to be in violation of UN rules for repairing banned casting chambers for making illegal missiles and for building a new test stand that can test missile engines five times above the permitted thrust.
     
    #1236     Feb 13, 2003
  7. msfe

    msfe

    #1237     Feb 13, 2003
  8. Oh boy, here we go again......OIL, OIL, OIL!

    But if we do as you suggest we do and go after the Saudis, will you not be railing further about oil, brother C?:confused:
     
    #1238     Feb 13, 2003
  9. Detroit, the hot bed of Wahaabiism (sp?)!

    Ford, GM, and Daimler-Chrysler - the Axis of Evil 2!! :)

    Detroit is next on the hit list! Yeeehaaaaaaaa.....:D :D :D
     
    #1239     Feb 13, 2003
  10. Yeah... nuke those bastids... yeeeeeeeeeehhhhaaaaa... :D :D :D
     
    #1240     Feb 13, 2003