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The Xeelee and associated enemy, the Photino Birds

A number of the groups in Marathon.

The Blight.

Any of the larger, older Powers in Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep universe.

Economic warfare on the grounds that one country's leadership isn't afraid to call another country's president what he is: agree with us or else.


Cue the Imperial march.

well obviously, theyve already shipped the dren out to the troops :roll: It's an alledged plant, not a depot... From the article: WASHINGTON - U.S. military investigators have found no evidence that chemical weapons have been made in recent years at a suspect chemical plant secured by U.S. troops i...

Update:

US finds nothing at alledged CW plant.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... ical_plant

I told you that caution was in order...

Congress authorized $74.7 billion for the war, and sliced $350 billion out of the tax cut. A touch of a discrepancy there, all other things being equal. The 78 billion is not for the entire war. It's just the first payment. Considering that you were already looking at a 200 billion dollar budget de...

RedImperator wrote:That's MY money you're gloating about, you sneering South Dakota sheepfucker. I earned it, not you.

Where the do you think the money for the Iraq war is supposed to come from, thin air?

That's how air defenses work when on high alert. The batteries have maybe two minutes to deal with incoming targets. They haven't said what caused the Tornado shoot down. But I'd bet a failed IFF or a plane outside its assigned corridor before I'd go with an error on the ground. The US ADA people h...

He is showing support for the country he is fighting for. Don't you think that wearing a conspicious national emblem and nationalist/religious slogan while on a campaign that's not supposed to be a conquest or a religiously-motivated crusade is a little bit short-sighted? Furthermore, as a practica...

Fox News said they're getting reports that the Iraqi hardline group (forget their names -- "something Saddam" ) are dressing like US troops within Basra and accepting surrenders from regular army Iraqi troops ... and then executing them. Saddam Fedayeen. They're Uday Hussain's militia/goo...

Someone should tell that arine with 'god bless America' on his helmet that this isn't supposed to be a crusade. That fscking idiot is a walking PR disaster.

From the BBC: In the second friendly-fire incident of its kind so far, US military sources say one of their F-16 warplanes fired on a battery of Patriot missiles in Iraq after the battery's radar locked on to the plane. No one was injured. :twisted: Now that's how to deal with trigger-happy friendly...

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtm ... ID=2440793

He doesn't have much of anything nice to say about Rumpsfelt's handling of the war, either.

Saddam should have been disposed of back in '91 but I don't think the Saudis and the rest of th Arab coelition members would have agreed. Forcing the issue then would have created a situation much worse than what we've got now. Bush should have supported the Kurds and Shiites when they responded to ...

enlightenment, i doubt bush is that stupid. 99%? i mean cmon, thats pretty much guaranteed and while we reserved the right to do so, it would kill local support in iraq. Shrubby is a none-issue. What Wolf-no-witz, Chainy, and Rumpsfelt want is much more the issue. They're all rabid jingoist nationa...

So it could surrender to the Germans on the other side.

1: 100% that Saddam will issue orders if and when he sees himself as backed into a corner. Unknown if the Iraqi troops will follow--Iraqi generals talked Saddam out of gassing the Americans during Gulf War II, after all. 2: 99%. The only real question is if there will be a 'demonstration' strike or ...

The biggest military blunder so far was assuming that the Iraqi population and non-'elite' forces would welcome the US as liberators rather than invaders. Rear security is much less of a problem if the local population is eager--or even willing--to point out where the irregular troops and goon squad...

Stormbringer wrote:Yeah. It can be.

And could you change the thread subject while you're at it? Don't want to give any passing readers heart attacks.

DG_Cal_Wright wrote:Told us what? Last I checked the whole world said it was unwarranted, that they didnt' have shit.

I'm sorry, you must have mistaken me for someone else.

'Nukes? What nukes? We didnt use a 10 kiloton nuclear tipped guided missile to destroy a cloud of chlorine gas..' Nuclear blasts leave telltale signs. The US won't be able to nuke Iraq and cover it up for any length of time. If Saddam uses gas then the nukes will come out. That was the position dur...

The CBS story linked by MKS currently reads: U.S officials tell CBS News Correspondent David Martin that the Iraqis have drawn a red line on the map around Baghdad, and once American troops cross it, the Republican Guards are authorized to use chemical weapons. Authorization, not orders. It's time f...

Gandalf wrote:How 'bout a Death Star, it'll seal with Iraq, France and peaceniks at the same time.

So charming to see your committment to freedom of opinion in action...

Iraqi 'gunmen' (gee, shouldn't that be troops) actually managed to temporarily cut off the US supply route earlier today. Portions of the southern oil fields have also now been classed as too unsafe for firefighting operations.

Rear area security is a clusterfuck. Can you say 'overconfidence?'

If it was close to the border they might have been bombing an Iraqi bridge and seen the bus in syria. There isn't a great big stripe on the desert floor saying syria | Iraq. No but there should be a great big stripe on the pilot's map with one side marked 'free fire zone' and the other 'do not touc...

Pentagon briefing going on. According to the Pentagon, the pilot of an american plane was bombing a target, a bridge or something, and the bus came into his sights after he had released the bomb. It seems to just have been an accident. The bus was reported to be in Syria. What are the Americans doi...