America bombs Iraqi CCC.

[Darth Fanboy]

Saddam and his hellspawned children have repeatedly threaten the US and its civilians, the people of Iraq have repeatedly burned our flag and called for our deaths. Seeing as how i'm an american civilian I will not shed a tear when that country gets torn down in a war. however once we get done with them i'd like the US to back out and let other countries take care of the rebuilding, funded by US dollars.

[phongn]

Somewhat back on topic

Anyone know if what they hit was a SOC or ROC?

[Stormbringer]

And the Anthrax and small pox could easily be made weaponized.

Yes, we must stop all legitimate medical research because some one could some how turn it into a weapon.

[phongn]

Disarm yourselves.

We never asked him to remove his conventional forces. While we're busy scrapping our stuff, why don't you persuade your politicians to destroy the Canadian Forces while you're at it?

Actually, the government practically is doing that.

Practically is not the same thing as you're advocating.

And the Anthrax and small pox could easily be made weaponized.

You're correct: my point is that it hasn't been weaponized; you're comparing an offensive program (Iraq) to a defensive one (United States). Now, if we had built up stockpiles of anthrax, botulism and smallpox to unleash upon the Warsaw Pact, you might have a point.

[salm]

Saddam and his hellspawned children have repeatedly threaten the US and its civilians, the people of Iraq have repeatedly burned our flag and called for our deaths. Seeing as how i'm an american civilian I will not shed a tear when that country gets torn down in a war. however once we get done with them i'd like the US to back out and let other countries take care of the rebuilding, funded by US dollars.

i remember these american protesters after the columbia accident holding up "nuke iraq" signs.
burning flags is hardly a reason for an invasion.

[Ted]

Now, if we had built up stockpiles of anthrax, botulism and smallpox to unleash upon the Warsaw Pact, you might have a point.

You DID do that, why else would you have had those stocks in the first place?

[Sonnenburg]

And the Anthrax and small pox could easily be made weaponized.

Yes, we must stop all legitimate medical research because some one could some how turn it into a weapon.

Here's a chance to help support research into making evil bio-weapons.

http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/smallpox/

[Admiral Valdemar]

And the Anthrax and small pox could easily be made weaponized.

Yes, we must stop all legitimate medical research because some one could some how turn it into a weapon.

Here's a chance to help support research into making evil bio-weapons.

http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/smallpox/

Dammit, I'm probably a future employee of Porton Down, the MoD's key bioweapon and chemical weapons R&D sector.

[phongn]

Now, if we had built up stockpiles of anthrax, botulism and smallpox to unleash upon the Warsaw Pact, you might have a point.

You DID do that, why else would you have had those stocks in the first place?

::sigh::

I had a nice post typed up, then phpBB ate it.

The gist was that I meant that we haven't had any stocks to destroy since the 1970s - and we voluntarily destroyed them - thus your comparison was flawed.

[weemadando]

According to the latest info I've heard it was apparently an Air Defense CCC station.

That makes hitting it more acceptable.

I won't turn this thread into an arguement over the legitamacy of the NFZs.

[phongn]

According to the latest info I've heard it was apparently an Air Defense CCC station.

Hrm...doesn't tell me too much (I like my specifics ) other than a C3 station was smacked. I'm going to assume that it was a Sector Operation Center, though it might have been a regional one.

[Sea Skimmer]

How the fuck can a Command and Control Centre threaten pilots?

Because it controls the batteries and radar systems which do the shooting.
Thus the name.
http://www.warships1.com/W-Tech/tech-032

The non-existant batteries and radar sites.

The ones that have been destroyed over the past 11 years so that there is bloody all left.

Then what's shooting down the USAF's drones and tiring to do the same to its manned planes? Thats right, six thousand peices of AAA, dozens of radars, about fifty SAM sites plus mobile TEL's and the occasional fighter sortie.

[Darth Wong]

It might not be the prime though but why are you complaining about it when this will do good for the Iraqi people? You'd still complain if we did nothing or cozied up to Saddam.

Really? When have I complained about the US not doing anything to Iraq? And yes, I would be unimpressed if the US cozied up to Saddam. Wouldn't you?

[Stormbringer]

It might not be the prime though but why are you complaining about it when this will do good for the Iraqi people? You'd still complain if we did nothing or cozied up to Saddam.

Really? When have I complained about the US not doing anything to Iraq? And yes, I would be unimpressed if the US cozied up to Saddam. Wouldn't you?

You've certainly critisized us enough in cases when we've done nothing such as Africa.

And I woud be. But we're doing what's right in the case even if it's not for the best reasons.