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klaatu <root@earthops.org> wrote:

>Rex wrote:
>> 
>> davehs@ix.netcom.com (David Hutchings) wrote:
>> 
>> >Raising an army like that could also cause a premptive strike by our
>> >enemy.  Numbers of solders is not a sabre to rattle.  It take too long
>> >to deploy them.
>> 
>> Does Iraq really have the reasources to pull of a successful
>> pre-emptive action?
>> 
>> Does Panama?
>> 
>> How about little Grenada?
>
>If you're considering only traditional factors such as
>"trained-men-at-arms", or even "capital ships" or even "heavy-launch
>vehicles", no. If you're considering something like plague, the average
>high-school student with a decent working knowledge of genetics and
>biology is capable of inflicting a disaster on almost anyone, at very
>low cost. Would they "win"? Depends, I guess, on how you define
>winning... but we could certainly be hurt.

Just one more empty assertion. Produce for me this apocryphal "average
high-school student" and maybe I'll believe you.

>> The US wouldn't even think of attacking a really powerful country.
>> China's human rights violations far eclipse that of Iraq, but the
>> President sure isn't going to call for a war, or a military action,
>> against them.
>
>China's not sitting dead center of the world's largest (developed)
>oil-producing region, manipulating a rabid religious ideology and
>promoting alienating racial/ethnic divisions. (to understand paranoia, I
>have heard, is to understand middle-eastern politics.)

The other stuff is just a smoke cloud (do you not have kids, or what?). The
issue was, is and forever will be the oil, the whole oil and nothing but the
oil.

>> Rmember, Saddam was A-OK with us, while he was bombing  and fighting
>> with Iran.  It's all political, and should be understood as such.
>
>Heh, as long as Saddam Hussein cannot get the entire Islamic world
>behind him, it will be a case of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".
>But Saddam Hussein understands quite well that as turn the tides of
>wars, so shift alliances. Here in the States, we have to remember that
>he knows this quite well, and try to figure out exactly which October
>Surprise he has up his sleeve for us.

I can think of no better way to assist in getting "the entire Islamic world
behind him" than sending "messages" via large explosive missiles.

Our unilateral action may, as it has in the fast, backfire on us and produce
the very worst case scenario.

Jack