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phreenet · 03-20-2003, 09:04 AM

By now we all know of the first strikes last night. But it seems strange that some people aren't mentioning the events that came in over wire this morning.

A couple months ago, Saddam fooled nieve (sp?) world into believing he didn't have anymore WMD, including SCUDS. Apparently that made Chirac and all the other Saddam sympathizers (sp?) believe he was a changed man. This morning I wake up and I see on the news word that a Patriot PAC-3 missle tracked, intercepted, and shot down a SCUD missle inbound to Kuwait. No one will ever know the contents of that missle. One could speculate that it was loaded with Chemical, Biological, Nuclear, Traditonal Munitions, or it could have just been empty. But the facts are that Saddam has and will continue to have and continue to use these weapons reguardless of how effective you guys think those inspections would have been. Just to note the mineset of the Iraqi military, they also fired a low flying surface to ship, anti-ship weapon in the same direction. Those could not be shot down because they fly low. The missle went astray and crashed into the desert harming no one.

03-20-2003, 09:04 AM	#3
phreenet Cooling Savant Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Gloucester, Virginia Posts: 356	By now we all know of the first strikes last night. But it seems strange that some people aren't mentioning the events that came in over wire this morning. A couple months ago, Saddam fooled nieve (sp?) world into believing he didn't have anymore WMD, including SCUDS. Apparently that made Chirac and all the other Saddam sympathizers (sp?) believe he was a changed man. This morning I wake up and I see on the news word that a Patriot PAC-3 missle tracked, intercepted, and shot down a SCUD missle inbound to Kuwait. No one will ever know the contents of that missle. One could speculate that it was loaded with Chemical, Biological, Nuclear, Traditonal Munitions, or it could have just been empty. But the facts are that Saddam has and will continue to have and continue to use these weapons reguardless of how effective you guys think those inspections would have been. Just to note the mineset of the Iraqi military, they also fired a low flying surface to ship, anti-ship weapon in the same direction. Those could not be shot down because they fly low. The missle went astray and crashed into the desert harming no one. __________________ Dual Pentium!!! 933@1107 Liquid Cooled.