21st March 2003, 1:19 AM
Quote:Originally posted by A Black Falcon
"Virtually Everybody" allowed airspace? No... while a lot of nations did, a few major ones didn't, the biggest of those being Turkey.
As for the coalition, while 30 nations expressed support, only 2 or 3 (UK, Australia, Poland...) of them sent combat soldiers... unlike Desert Storm with its large coalition of troops from many nations... you CAN'T say that the cooalition is nearly as strong as the 1991 one was and tell the truth...
Oh, and there has been NO use of chemical or biological weapons by the Iraqis after 2 days of war. NONE.
A few points:
>The Coalition includes nearly 50 nations now, making it considerably larger than the Desert Storm Coalition.
>It doesn't matter how many combat troops are sent, because WE DON'T NEED ANYONE ELSE'S. Few in the prior Coalition offered anything consequential in that regard.
>Iraq has already used SCUD missiles, that they claimed not to have. So as of now, Bush was right. And there haven't been any gas attacks yet, but the war is only two days old. Not to mention, the Iraqi military is shattered. Many are surrendering, and many more have shown signs of it. They haven't used any gas weapons, and God forbid they ever do, but that they blatantly lied about the SCUDs means it goes without saying that they've got worse things hidden better.
The war is going extremely well, and it looks like casualties of all sorts will be light if the mass surrenders keep up. I just know that's pissing you off, because your predictions of doom and gloom will never come to pass. Sorry, pal.
Anyway, ABF, visit this site: http://www.humanshields.org
I'm sure they'll still welcome you.
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