A possible side-effect

[Kiwi-Clock]

Destroying Saddam is probably the easiest part of the up-coming conflict, it's the after effects I'm worried about: http://idleworm.com/nws/2002/11/iraq2.shtml

[NEMESiSZ]

Flash movies have psychic powers, I heard.

None of that will happen, this war will be over quicker than the Zanzibar/Britain conflict.

[NEMESiSZ]

As much as everyone wants to see the USA fail, which is sick and malicious, better men than you all KNOW it will succeed.

[Kiwi-Clock]

LOL.. and what exactly makes them better?

[NJDeadzone]

it took 50 years to fix up Germany, expect 50 for Iraq

[Ted-Easton]

I liked that one. Everyone VS the US and they still play the world the same way.

[NEMESiSZ]

At 3/18/03 07:36 PM, NJDeadzone wrote: it took 50 years to fix up Germany, expect 50 for Iraq

Germany was a leading industrial nation, Iraq is the third world. Germany actually had a respectable army, too.

Prepare for the five day war.

[TheEvilOne]

At 3/18/03 07:36 PM, NJDeadzone wrote: it took 50 years to fix up Germany, expect 50 for Iraq

Well, you had that whole "West Germany-East Germany" thing because the US and Britain occupied the west side while the USSR occupied the east side, so it took the end of the Cold War to fix things up there.

But we rebuilt Japan in about 5 years. Afghanistan and Iraq may take that long, but it will be done.

[Der-Ubermensch]

At 3/18/03 07:15 PM, NEMESiSZ wrote: As much as everyone wants to see the USA fail, which is sick and malicious, better men than you all KNOW it will succeed.

That's what all the CNN retired Officers turned war analysts are saying... So it must be true.That crap is fabricated US propaganda, do try to see through it. Saddam will make it his business to rack up the death toll, regardless of allegiance. He is out to make The good ole US of A look deliciously incompetent and ridiculous. He will most definitely succeed.

[JMHX]

At 3/18/03 08:35 PM, NEMESiSZ wrote:

At 3/18/03 07:36 PM, NJDeadzone wrote: it took 50 years to fix up Germany, expect 50 for Iraq

Germany was a leading industrial nation, Iraq is the third world. Germany actually had a respectable army, too.

Prepare for the five day war.

You know, I had bets for six. We'll see who's closer. However, what gets me is the possiblity of terrorism here in the U.S. Our troops pretty much have it wrapped up over there. It's the lingering hint of possible attacks that get me wondering.

[NJDeadzone]

we have alot of optimists on this forum if 5-6 years is the average. If we didn't get permission from the UN to invade a nation, what makes you all think we'll be able to change the government of one without UN support?

[karasz]

At 3/18/03 10:54 PM, NJDeadzone wrote: we have alot of optimists on this forum if 5-6 years is the average. If we didn't get permission from the UN to invade a nation, what makes you all think we'll be able to change the government of one without UN support?

because changing the government involves the old government getting out of power... once saddam is out france and russia will be ready to help rebuild iraq and be ready to take its oil, and the countries that were against war will be financing the rebuilding while the US and its puppy-dog attention span move onto another country...

[karasz]

also the war will take no more than 3 days... but one set of troops will be hit with chemical/biological weapons and that will get teh international community behind the US more-so than it is now...

[NJDeadzone]

well it was naive and American of me to think that the US will solely rebuild the Iraqi government, but doesn't it have that right?

[karasz]

yeah but the democrats runnin for president will ask y are we giving SO MUCH money to iraq, when the US economy is horrible?

and so on and so forth so perhaps they may get the edge...

[mysecondstar]

At 3/19/03 12:30 AM, karasz wrote: yeah but the democrats runnin for president will ask y are we giving SO MUCH money to iraq, when the US economy is horrible?

and so on and so forth so perhaps they may get the edge...

watch a war rally on the stock markets. it happened on the 17th, watch it happen again.

also, on a different note, no matter how many people and countries don't want the US to go in and fight, they all want the US to win. no one likes saddam hussein, that can be agreed upon by all parties, but not all agree on the means of removing him. but once iraq is ridded of saddam, the UN, which had already discussed a resolution to help rebuild iraq, will help. it is garaunteed.

and i'm fairly certain that we are safe from terrorist attack. the US just raised the security level rating to orange, so we are expecting something. if anything will happen, it wiil be absolutely catastrophic. and the chances of that is unlikely.