[Skybird]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

I'm sure it was when they kept shooting at our jets and violating the terms of the ceasefire. I don't doubt they planned it since then. This started the moment they started giving the rightfull weapons inspectors the boot.

-S


PS. The US plans all things and all scenarios at all times. DOn't be surprised if their are many scenarios for attacking a country like Germany, Russia, CHina, France, anyone. That is their job. A conflict can arrise at any times and I am sure their is a scenario planned for any country in this entire world. Get used to it. That is how we do business and protect our people.

Yadda-yadda-yadda, all nice, all irrelevant to the topic.

You accepted to be confronted by Iraqi SAMS when you willed to monitor and enforce the no-fly zones (which did not prevent their helicopters to massacre the Shia after they were betrayed by the US), and when you willed to enforce the UN mandate. You had to expect that, and the UN mandate hardly gave you green light for an allout war to remove the regime that you just had saved from falling in 1991 - intentionally.

* You wanted that country as a strategic platform,
* and you wanted your hand at the Iraqi oil pipelines to be able to control who gets what, and US companies and namely Cheney's Halliburton taking the lion's share of the profits.

These were the reasons why this war was planned and wanted. It was not a war of necessity, it was a war of choice and desire. Your shiny propaganda sounds nice and kind in the ear, but has not much to do with the reality.

but some weeks ago you tried to tell me that the developement costs of a fighter program do not proportionally contribute to the overall value of the individual unit in service, so what else could I expect than absurdities.