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I'm sat here watching ITN's coverage of the Iraq situation.
Bush's deadline passed some time ago now, and there's just the first signs of hostilities beginning, with anti-aircraft weapons being seen and heard on the live coverage.
I'm 50/50 over the whole thing. I believe Saddam needs removing, but am unconvinced that this particular action is actually being done for the right reasons.
Regardless of what any of us think, this thing is going to happen, and I hope at least some of you will join me in wishing 'Our Boys' good luck for a swift and effective campaign, and hope that they all get home safe to their families as soon as possible.
Bush's deadline passed some time ago now, and there's just the first signs of hostilities beginning, with anti-aircraft weapons being seen and heard on the live coverage.
I'm 50/50 over the whole thing. I believe Saddam needs removing, but am unconvinced that this particular action is actually being done for the right reasons.
Regardless of what any of us think, this thing is going to happen, and I hope at least some of you will join me in wishing 'Our Boys' good luck for a swift and effective campaign, and hope that they all get home safe to their families as soon as possible.
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Could happen, and then Ultra Magnus would take the Matrix and hope that it would light the Autobot's darkest hour.
And then... UNICRON!!!!
And then... UNICRON!!!!
er-no wrote:
> I hope Prime gets him.
>
> http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=3828
What a moron, I'd laugh if an Iraqi soldier called Megatron shot Mr Prime.
> I hope Prime gets him.
>
> http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=3828
What a moron, I'd laugh if an Iraqi soldier called Megatron shot Mr Prime.
I support their boys as much as I support our boys.
Oh dear God.
These people are handed weapons with live ammunition?
These people are handed weapons with live ammunition?
I hope Prime gets him.
http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=3828
http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=3828
Goatboy wrote:
> I hope that *all* soldiers get to go home to their families, not just
> ours.
I hope that all the Iraqi soldiers (mainly the Special Republican Guard) who have murdered their own civilians, decimated the Kurds and generally supported Saddam's tyranny get blown to smithereens.
As for the "regular" army made up of conscripts, who are already deserting in their droves, I too share your opinion. Our fight is not with them and therefore if both the allies and the Iraqi regulars did not fire a single shot at each other, I'd be happy.
The problem with this war is how clinical it needs to be. It is a war within a war that we are planning to fight. Saddam has a core following of 100,000-200,000 loyal troups, who have carried out his dastardly deads over the last few decades. They are the main target; the rest of the Iraqi people (including the army and obviously the civilians) would be happy to see them disposed of too. But some innocents will doubtless perish through "collatoral damage" and by the hand of Saddam's spite. There have, as we know, been several attempted and unsuccessful uprisings, which we woefully neglected to support, whose aim was to rid Iraq of their tyrannical dictator. They knew that bloodshed would be ineviatable, but were willing to try, or die. I'm not saying that our "noble" cause is to finally undertake this uprising ourselves but at least, there is a chance for Iraq to (rebuild) start buidling a new society after the war ends.
That is when the allied Nations need to committ both time and money, to ensure that the new regime is an improvement on the old one. Otherwise the whole venture would be pointless.
> I hope that *all* soldiers get to go home to their families, not just
> ours.
I hope that all the Iraqi soldiers (mainly the Special Republican Guard) who have murdered their own civilians, decimated the Kurds and generally supported Saddam's tyranny get blown to smithereens.
As for the "regular" army made up of conscripts, who are already deserting in their droves, I too share your opinion. Our fight is not with them and therefore if both the allies and the Iraqi regulars did not fire a single shot at each other, I'd be happy.
The problem with this war is how clinical it needs to be. It is a war within a war that we are planning to fight. Saddam has a core following of 100,000-200,000 loyal troups, who have carried out his dastardly deads over the last few decades. They are the main target; the rest of the Iraqi people (including the army and obviously the civilians) would be happy to see them disposed of too. But some innocents will doubtless perish through "collatoral damage" and by the hand of Saddam's spite. There have, as we know, been several attempted and unsuccessful uprisings, which we woefully neglected to support, whose aim was to rid Iraq of their tyrannical dictator. They knew that bloodshed would be ineviatable, but were willing to try, or die. I'm not saying that our "noble" cause is to finally undertake this uprising ourselves but at least, there is a chance for Iraq to (rebuild) start buidling a new society after the war ends.
That is when the allied Nations need to committ both time and money, to ensure that the new regime is an improvement on the old one. Otherwise the whole venture would be pointless.
What a dreadful world.
I hope that *all* soldiers get to go home to their families, not just ours.
I second your feelings Wookie. I am hoping for a quick and easy conflict of course with as little civilians killed as possible. I also hope the Iraq army surrenders to us, so we do not need to fight them.
Good luck. And God pray that no civilians get hurt or even killed.
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