did anyone notice

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-03-03 01:32pm

this weekend i was channel surfing. I happened to catch one of the neverending Iraq stories on Fox News. What got my attention, however was not the story, but the seemingly umimportant footage of an Iraqi army convoy. The thing is, the bulk of the convoy was apparantly composed of a dozen or so brand new Mercedes-Benz and Peugot heavy duty trucks outfitted as missile launcher platforms and troop transports. What the fuck! How come this didn't get anyone's attention? There the were clear as day in the very footage Fox was running and nobody notices? Where the hell is Iraq getting brand spanking new German and French military hardware? Hasn't Iraq been under an arms embargo for 13 years? dammit is anyone paying attention to this? Is this why Germany and France want to avoid war...to save a good customer of their arms industry?

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-03-03 01:35pm

Yeah, I noticed that too...

jegs2 · Post by **jegs2** » 2003-03-03 01:49pm

Oh, lay off Saddam! He's destroying the missiles and just wants peace for everybody. Good grief, just give peace a chance!

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-03-03 01:56pm

Is that new footage though? It's hard to tell as a lot of the coverage has been recycled since Desert Shield.

David · Post by **David** » 2003-03-03 01:57pm

Let's see, he's got, what, about 150 of those things? BTW, I wonder what exactly he was planning on putting in those missiles, soft plushy teddy bears for the Israeli children?

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-03-03 02:03pm

David wrote:Let's see, he's got, what, about 150 of those things? BTW, I wonder what exactly he was planning on putting in those missiles, soft plushy teddy bears for the Israeli children?

Naw, probably Sarin or VX nerve gas.
Luckily the Israelis are stocked up on bio-chem gear.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-03-03 02:11pm

Stormbringer wrote:Is that new footage though? It's hard to tell as a lot of the coverage has been recycled since Desert Shield.

if that is footage from desert storm, then saddam has magical powers because the trucks were brand new...as in made after 2000...you can tell by the design.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-03-03 02:26pm

Great...now he's got black mages..

NUKEDOKEN!!!

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-03-03 02:30pm

Col. Crackpot wrote:
Stormbringer wrote:Is that new footage though? It's hard to tell as a lot of the coverage has been recycled since Desert Shield.
if that is footage from desert storm, then saddam has magical powers because the trucks were brand new...as in made after 2000...you can tell by the design.

Okay. I do watch Fox news much or any news really but I know I've seen a lot of recycled footage so I wanted to know.

Post by **Coyote** » 2003-03-03 04:43pm

I've heard a rumor that Saddam told France and Germany that they'd better keep a lid on things in the UN, 'cause if they sided with the US then Iraq would go public with all the deals and agreements he's made with them during the period of the "embargo"...

Seems to fit the pattern of things...

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-03-03 05:03pm

The more I hear, the more I think something is rotten in Denmark, or, in this case, France and Germany...

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-03-03 11:25pm

Col. Crackpot wrote:this weekend i was channel surfing. I happened to catch one of the neverending Iraq stories on Fox News. What got my attention, however was not the story, but the seemingly umimportant footage of an Iraqi army convoy. The thing is, the bulk of the convoy was apparantly composed of a dozen or so brand new Mercedes-Benz and Peugot heavy duty trucks outfitted as missile launcher platforms and troop transports. What the fuck! How come this didn't get anyone's attention? There the were clear as day in the very footage Fox was running and nobody notices? Where the hell is Iraq getting brand spanking new German and French military hardware? Hasn't Iraq been under an arms embargo for 13 years? dammit is anyone paying attention to this? Is this why Germany and France want to avoid war...to save a good customer of their arms industry?

How would you know they were brand new?

also

Since when is a truck a piece of sanctioned military hardware? Iraq has peformed lots of its own ad hoc mods on non military hardware and existing stuff it already had to improve it's forces:

- cement armor on its tanks (surprisingly effective against ATGMs)
- mounting previously fixed SA-3 missiles on mobile truck chassis

etc

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-03-04 12:40am

Vympel wrote:
How would you know they were brand new?

also

Since when is a truck a piece of sanctioned military hardware? Iraq has peformed lots of its own ad hoc mods on non military hardware and existing stuff it already had to improve it's forces:

- cement armor on its tanks (surprisingly effective against ATGMs)
- mounting previously fixed SA-3 missiles on mobile truck chassis

etc

Yes, I had been wondering about that. I mean, if trucks are military hardware then Australia's "road-trains" would allow us to rule the world.

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2003-03-04 12:47am

jegs2 wrote:Oh, lay off Saddam! He's destroying the missiles and just wants peace for everybody. Good grief, just give peace a chance!

What have you been smoking Mr. Peacenik Hippie?

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