02-06-2003, 01:20 AM
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aspiring banker
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: toronto
Posts: 10,870
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Originally posted by KingK7
Let's just hope invading the cities wont be necessary, then the body-bags will be coming home in droves...
Basra and Bagdad are major cities, densely populated, and it really doesnt matter alot what kind of technology you have when you fight hand-to-hand combat, from house to house.
Planes and tanks may easily take out targets from a great distance in deserts, it gets a little harder when there are civilians all around the targets, and CNN is following 2 foot-steps behind.
However, I have no doubt the US WILL win the war, question is at what cost... To the US soldiers and their families I mean, I dont give a flying fuck about the ragheads in that piece-of-shit country.
I also have a feeling this war will be the beginning of a greater one.
A possible scenario is this:
1. Saddam sends chem/bio weapons at Israel.
2a. Israel responds promptly by sending a nuke into Bagdad or another major city. THIS scenario will create a WHOLE lot of uncertainties, most of them with a terrifying outcome.
2b. Israel responds with a conventional attack on Iraq. (Unlikely, if Iraq does 1. )
Even this option will be nasty, as you can be sure the rest of the camel-jockeys will launch an attack on Israel. It will in any case raise MASSIVE support for Iraq amongst the arab/muslim states.
In that case, expect the war to drag on, and expect a hell of alot more terrorist activity.
Like I said, just a possible scenario, but not very unlikely.
If any of you think that Iraq sent those scuds in 91 just because they HATE Israel, you are terribly wrong. They very well know that any aggression by Israel will mount MASSIVE support for Iraq.
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thats exactly what these people who think we'll win this like desert storm fail to understand. when you fight an urban war all that technology doesn't help as much as it did in the desert.
from what i hear iraq has a very well trained army and it could get bloody. |
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