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 been

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 in /days/

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

2003-03-20 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 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 Major Variola (ret)
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-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 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. May