Sayonara Posted February 20, 2003 Posted February 20, 2003 Originally posted by PogoC7 The reactions I expected from haters. No counterpoint. A real picture. Would not waste the time to photoshopping that. Look at all that space and those BIG cars too. No minis here. Wtf are you talking about, 'haters'? Haters of what? All anybody has done in this thread is discuss whether or not America is right in attacking Iraq, which sort of spilled into a wider discussion of the US foreign policy. All the antagonism seems to be coming from you. And don't tell me that image is a photo. I use photoshop extensively, I know what I'm looking at.
atinymonkey Posted February 20, 2003 Posted February 20, 2003 PogoC7, why don't you pop off and create a pro America thread, I really think you are missing the point of this one. I'm not even going to ask why you were browsing articles on that particular surgical enhancement.
LuTze Posted February 20, 2003 Posted February 20, 2003 Originally posted by PogoC7 Look at all that space and those BIG cars too. No minis here. They must be somewhere, then. The new Mini seems surprisingly popular over the pond.
Sayonara Posted February 20, 2003 Posted February 20, 2003 Originally posted by aman Maybe some general will shoot Saddam and be a Hero. That particular resolution to the question of his authority is growing more likely by the day.
Aardvark Posted February 20, 2003 Posted February 20, 2003 Do you have any inside knowledge to that effect, or simply an educated ( or otherwise ) guess?
Sayonara Posted February 20, 2003 Posted February 20, 2003 Certain US govt agency making financial overtures in general direction of Saddam's officers. Shhhh.
aman Posted February 21, 2003 Posted February 21, 2003 One of Saddams top defected generals was interviewed and said their isn't a general around Saddam that he hasn't hurt, abused, and bullied. He definitely isn't surrounded by loyalty due to admiration. Anybody involved in his overthrow has the only bright future available to them. The defector says he knows the generals and he's pretty confident it will happen. Just aman
Sayonara Posted February 21, 2003 Posted February 21, 2003 I heard that if they turn up to work with creases in the wrong place he hits them on the knuckles with a wooden ruler. If they speak out of place they have to stand in the corner for an hour. They'll jump at the chance to overthrow that monster.
atinymonkey Posted February 21, 2003 Posted February 21, 2003 Apparently the dress down Friday rule doesn't extend to the false moustaches that staff close to sadam are forced to wear. This has caused dissent among the staff who feel that having a Hawaii Friday on the last Friday of the month doesn't make up for the increased risk of becoming the target of a failed assassination attempt. However, the last team building event at the Bowling ally whent down a storm. The one objection was silenced by a free bar, from 7 till 8 on bottled drinks only, and a 40 lashes of the cat'o'nine tails.
aman Posted February 22, 2003 Posted February 22, 2003 Blix said last week the missiles were in violation of the UN resolution. It's been a week and he's gotten as far as suggesting they might have to be destroyed? Next week he will go to the UN and tell them he has made his request and he is encouraged and pleased to report that they are promising to think about it. Just aman
fafalone Posted February 22, 2003 Posted February 22, 2003 And of course that report will be on March 7th, with a US/UK resolution to be voted on the following week. He's had about 10 last chances since 1441 was passed.
atinymonkey Posted February 22, 2003 Posted February 22, 2003 Well, let's hope that forcing a democratic system into the decision at least slows the willingness to sentance half a million troops and civilians to death long enough to allow support from Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran or Bahrain to be gained. After all, they are the countrys directly connected to Iraq, there support would probably be a good thing to be sure of before imposing a war on their doorstep.
fafalone Posted February 22, 2003 Posted February 22, 2003 The latest bullshit: UN resolution forbids Iraq from having missiles that reach beyond a certain range. Blix found missiles that go beyond this range, and ordered them destroyed. Yet somehow Iraq still isn't in breach. Surely everyone can see why the UN in its current form is pathetic and useless.
aman Posted February 22, 2003 Posted February 22, 2003 It is sad how France is going to stand there all together by itself while we and all these other countries are going to have to go it alone. Blix gave Saddam till March to show his intentions. I thought he was making a report at the end of Feb? I think Saddam killed the real Blix last visit and this new guy is an Iraqui flunkie, or maybe he's drugged, or possibly he just really is an idiot. Just aman
fafalone Posted February 22, 2003 Posted February 22, 2003 It's the real Blix, he's just French at heart.
Sayonara Posted February 22, 2003 Posted February 22, 2003 Blix told Iraq to destroy their al-Samoud missiles, or the UN would recommend attacking Iraq to the USA and its allies. This was a week or so after he told the USA there was no need to invade Iraq, and they said "lalalaalalalalalalalala can't hear you lalalaalalaala". The USA is probably going to attack anyway, and Iraq knows this. So of course they haven't destroyed them. Would you?
fafalone Posted February 22, 2003 Posted February 22, 2003 They were given until March 1st to *start* destroying them.
Sayonara Posted February 22, 2003 Posted February 22, 2003 OK... So what's the problem? It's Feb 22nd. If they are still there on March 1st (and in all likelihood they will be) Blix will tell the US to go ahead.
fafalone Posted February 22, 2003 Posted February 22, 2003 Yeah right. He'll just say more time is needed.
Sayonara Posted February 22, 2003 Posted February 22, 2003 If they haven't even started by then I doubt even he would be that gullible. Although I'm sure he'd like to avoid a war as much as the rest of the people in countries that are actually near Iraq and may be affected.
fafalone Posted February 22, 2003 Posted February 22, 2003 Yeah because Iraq refusing to allow private interviews, and flagrantly not actively cooperating for the entire time isn't a breach.
Sayonara Posted February 22, 2003 Posted February 22, 2003 If that's your whole argument it's not a very good one. The UN are more likely to be able to handle a breach of their resolution and the subsequent invigilation than you are.
fafalone Posted February 22, 2003 Posted February 22, 2003 There has been a breach for months. They're not handling it, they're just continually giving iraq more time.
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