He is a coward so he will run away and hide. Someone in Iraq’s military will kill him eventually.

My guess is that the war will start March 24-26 so we will know soon.

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Sauron

Garry

We can always count on you for a negative interpretation of events.

Frankly I can’t see a downside for Russia.

😀 :p 😎 🙂 :rolleyes: 😮 😡 🙁 :confused:

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Sauron

Aw come on guys! Saddam says he doen’t have any such weapons.

😉

Yes its a very good point. I also wonder why he has been so agreeable to destroying (reluctantly and slowly) his Al Samoud 2 stocks (the ones that we know about that is). The obvious reason is to avert an invasion, but beyond that it could be a way of hoping to divert attention from a more sophisticated system.

If such a missile does exist, its development history will make interesting reading.

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Sauron

Keltic

You are correct, it is a hard issue. Just maybe a solution could be found if South Korea, Japan, China and Russia would get off their collective ass and contribute to finding one. That is unlikey as long as the US has a military presence in the area. That simply gives them the pretext to sit back. I would love to see that pretext removed ASAP.

As far as McDonald’s in Pyongyang goes, that will be problem at first because of it’s policy of attempting to cater to local diet and tastes and cats and dogs are probably very scarce there.

ELP

Good post. I like China as the “father figure” and with a new ” bigman’ in charge there (as of yesterday), maybe we will see some policy changes.

By all means, let the locals sort it out for themselves. Your point about the unknown implications of having everyone in the area armed with nukes is very interesting as there is little love lost betweem all of them inspite of the show they occasionaly put on for the rest of the world. Add India and Pakistan to the mix and you have added possibilities for trouble.

You don’t mention Russia. I believe it’s potentally the big looser in the region and I imagine Putin craps his pants every time he thinks about Russia’s competitive chances in Asia nevermind the nuke issue. One can only imagine what he realy thinks about Kim Ding Dong! I would bet he hopes the US maintains a significant military force in the region for some time.

Given the current heavy lift resources available to the US military, how long would it take the US to vacate the South? It would be an interesting logistics task to see how fast it could be done.

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Sauron

AID is not a loan

Ink

I know this dosn’t sit well with some here, but the funds the US is providing to assist in cleaning up the nuclear mess in Russia (and else where in the former USSR) is aid. These are not loans.

The only ‘catch’ seems to be that the US requires a certain amount of proof that the funds are used for the purpose intended which involves some auditing processes which the Russians are somewhat touchy about apparently. I guess it’s the ‘trust but verify’ rule referred to by US President Reagan back in the late 1980’s.

I suppose the only selfish interest from a US point of view is that helping Russia with tha clean up, reduces the posibility of some nasty ‘accident’ involving nuclear material.

I am sure there are some ‘loans’ taking place as well.

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Sauron

Shorthome

I like your solution. Saddam can only sleep in one of his 100 palaces at a time so the other 99 could house the inspection teams. France could run the palace kitchens.:) Germany could tend to the green gardening, Belgium house maid and laundry and Russia could take charge of garbage and septic facilities. Everyone else could form up into teams an dig up as much dirt on Saddam as they can find.

Seriously there was some talk of a UN occupation force in Iraq not to long ago. I don’t remember how it came up.
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Sauron

Garry

I am sure that by this point, US charity to Russia has exceeded what Iraq owes.

Given the amount of aid that the NATO countries have had to pony up to help the nations within the former USSR and WARPACT nations, speaks volumns about the failure of communism.

Don’t worry Garry, once Saddam is gone, Russia will start getting repaid. It is ironic that Russia continues to back Saddam Insane yet this actually delays the date that repayment begins.

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Sauron

galdri

I was prepared to read you post with an open mind until I got to the Herr Gobbels reference at the end of the first paragraph. At that point I stopped because it was obvious where you were headed.

Sorry

Sauron