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Thread #125469 Message #2787238
Posted By: Teribus
12-Dec-09 - 11:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: Afghan War mistake or wise
Subject: RE: BS: Afghan War mistake or wise
Stringsinger:
"1. Water treatments plants were contaminated by weapon's fallout."
Examples please, now remember when you respond to this that within the borders of Iraq post-Safwan Iraqi Army helicopter gunships were allowed to operate. Desert Storm was primarily concerned with ejecting the Iraqi forces from Kuwait and no battles were fought in the Basra area. So if you were referring to depleted uranium rounds they were Russian in origin and came from Hind Helicopter gunships
"2. Power stations were unworkable."
In all probability true, the only place in Iraq pre-2003 invasion that had a 24 hour power supply was wherever Saddam Hussein happened to be at that time. Now in the interim between 1991 and 2003 instead of building infrastructure to benefit the people of Iraq Saddam Hussein build Presidential Palaces to thwart the inspections of UNSCOM, he smuggled in 384 Rocket Motors from North Korea, he initiated and ran a programme intent on acquiring VX nerve gas. Of course Power stations were unworkable, Saddam and the Government he controlled wer too busy doing other things that they felt were more important
"3. Infrastructure targets were indiscriminately hit by so-called "smart bombs"."
Examples please, for very solid logical reasons I have given, such targets would not be hit. Please counter that argument, preferably with fact not left-wing, anti-Bush, anti-war rhetoric.
Little Hawk:
"Perhaps they salivate at the thought of the big reconstruction contracts that will follow?"
And those contracts have been awarded to whom exactly??