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2003-02-21 Iraq

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Posted by Dar Steckelberg 2003-02-21 08:26 pm|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If we really wanted to make an impression on enemy divers, we could use trained Orcas. Of course, they'd be a lot more expensive to feed.

Posted by Patrick Phillips 2003-02-21 14:42:38|| 2003-02-21 14:42:38|| Front Page Top

#2 I also read the other day that the ground guys will be going in with chickens in cages (I wish I
could find the link) using the canary in a coalmine priciple for gas attacks. Can't wait until PETA gets hold of that. Maybe they'll volunteer to be human gas detectors to spare the chickens. I'm all for that.

Posted by tu3031 2003-02-21 14:43:13|| 2003-02-21 14:43:13|| Front Page Top

#3 "...we could use trained Orcas. Of course, they'd be a lot more expensive to feed."

Not if you train them to eat divers without the proper IFF sonar bleeper...

Posted by mojo 2003-02-21 15:10:38|| 2003-02-21 15:10:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Sorry, the PETAs wouldn't die fast enough to serve as a useful warning.

Posted by Dishman 2003-02-21 15:39:12|| 2003-02-21 15:39:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Why on earth would they release this information? Sea Lions are mammals and thus easy targets. The end result of this will be the enemy slaughtering all sea lions in the hopes of killing one or two trained ones. What was the point of releasing this info??? How stupid!

I wonder if that's why they kept washing up on the beaches in CA with bullet holes in their heads. Maybe some idiot put out a press release bragging about their use in smuggling operations or some such thing.

Some people have no common sense.

Posted by becky 2003-02-21 21:20:13|| 2003-02-21 21:20:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Why on earth would they release this information?

"Hey! Look over there! Is that Elvis?"

Posted by Fred 2003-02-21 22:20:59|| 2003-02-21 22:20:59|| Front Page Top

#7 You pegged it, Fred.

Posted by Tom Roberts 2003-02-22 10:13:50|| 2003-02-22 10:13:50|| Front Page Top

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