Re: Fwd: Informer alert: War begins in Iraq

2003-03-21 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:40:52PM +, Ken Brown wrote: > Harmon Seaver wrote: > > >What sort of dictatorship is this where the people own automatic weapons > > freely? Shades of Switzerland! > > Soviet Armenia? > > When they fell out with the Azeris they got their scratch army together >

Re: Fwd: Informer alert: War begins in Iraq

2003-03-21 Thread Tyler Durden
I've been thinking about this post, and though I agreed with the general gist of it, there were some points I thought worth mentioning... May thousands of AmeriKKKan troops die painfully, along with their handlers on the East Coast, as a deterrent to future illegal wars of aggression. This

Re: Fwd: Informer alert: War begins in Iraq

2003-03-21 Thread Ken Brown
Harmon Seaver wrote: >What sort of dictatorship is this where the people own automatic weapons > freely? Shades of Switzerland! Soviet Armenia? When they fell out with the Azeris they got their scratch army together in /days/ According to the Russian news they used "hunting rifles". I'd be

Re: Fwd: Informer alert: War begins in Iraq

2003-03-20 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:31:25AM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > At 02:36 PM 3/20/03 +, Ken Brown wrote: > >Despite what Eric Cordian and others have said here, I think it > unlikely > >that there will be a big body-bag outcome for the US. The force balance > > >is so overwhelmingly one-

Re: Fwd: Informer alert: War begins in Iraq

2003-03-20 Thread Bill Frantz
At 6:36 AM -0800 3/20/03, Ken Brown wrote: >Only alternative to that that can preserve an Iraqi state is US (or just >possibly UK - after all we've had a lot of practice) direct rule for >/years/ We don't just dfeat Iraq, we conquer it. Bush still claims >the USA is not an imperialist power. Th

RE: Fwd: Informer alert: War begins in Iraq

2003-03-20 Thread Mike Rosing
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Trei, Peter wrote: > There are other factors that the Turks have on their minds, aside from > the US and NATO. Turkey is anxious to join the European Union, and > has been cleaning up its human rights act to gain acceptance. > Turkey recently lifted martial law in the Kurdish

RE: Fwd: Informer alert: War begins in Iraq

2003-03-20 Thread Trei, Peter
> Mike Rosing[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Ken Brown wrote: > > > 3) what about the Kurds? What about the Kurds? Does the US force them > > to rejoin Iraq? Does the US continue to deny them Kirkuk and other > > cities of their homeland? Does the US allow Turkish troops to in

Re: Fwd: Informer alert: War begins in Iraq

2003-03-20 Thread Mike Rosing
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Ken Brown wrote: > Despite what Eric Cordian and others have said here, I think it unlikely > that there will be a big body-bag outcome for the US. The force balance > is so overwhelmingly one-way, and most Iraqis really don't want the > current Ba'athist government. A lot of

Re: Fwd: Informer alert: War begins in Iraq

2003-03-20 Thread Ken Brown
Despite what Eric Cordian and others have said here, I think it unlikely that there will be a big body-bag outcome for the US. The force balance is so overwhelmingly one-way, and most Iraqis really don't want the current Ba'athist government. A lot of them will give up quickly. Could be wrong of c

Re: Fwd: Informer alert: War begins in Iraq

2003-03-19 Thread Eric Cordian
Stuart writes: > War has been declared against Iraq by the US President George Bush. > Initial air strikes have been launched on Baghdad, which the US said > were targeted at senior Iraqi leaders. British forces have not yet > been involved and the order to begin a ground war has not been given.