Todd- are the missles Iraq got from China surface-to-surface (for attacking ground targets in other countries) or surface-to-air (for shooting at US aircraft?
I was under the impression they were s-t-s but I might be wrong. -Ben > -----Original Message----- > From: Todd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 12:18 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Ready For War (Re: Why (Re: They invaded! 0_0)) > > > Probably because the Govmt. knows Iraq is just testing their > shiney new > missle systems they got from China. It's also a good opp. for > the U.S. to > test those missle systems' tracking capabilities too. Then, > after they get > enough info, they take them out. War is expensive. This is > cheaper. Plus, > we get to continually annoy Saddam and do some intelligence > gathering at the > same time. > > I'm only making a wild guess. I'm probably way wrong :) > > Todd > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Raymond Camden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 2:55 PM > Subject: RE: Ready For War (Re: Why (Re: They invaded! 0_0)) > > > > > In a lot of circles, firing rockets across an > international border at > > > another country is described by the words "act of war". > > > > > > > That reminds me of Iraq. About 2-3 times a month, for > _years_, you hear > > about one of our jets blowing up a missile or radar site. > Why? Because > > Iraq targetted our planes. What I don't get is - even if Iraq has no > > chance in hell of knocking down our planes, why don't we > consider this > > an act of war? If you point a very small gun at me, my life > is still in > > danger. This type of event should have happaned once... and > that should > > have been the last time ever. > > > > -rc > > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
