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2006-04-10 Iraq

Saddams pilots hunted down by death squads

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Posted by Fred 2006-04-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Iran inciting violence and death?

Say it ain't so!

Posted by Barbara Skolaut"> Barbara Skolaut 2006-04-10 00:17|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-04-10 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 The Baathist ex-military officers have been funding and organizing the insurgency and the terror campaign against the Shiites. Cough up the arms and explosives caches, the couriers, the account numbers, the recruiters, the contacts in Syria and KSA, the trainers, the infiltrators, the safe houses, and the propaganda teams, and I'm sure that some sort of protection can be arranged.

Posted by 11A5S 2006-04-10 00:17|| 2006-04-10 00:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like an act of war on Iran's part. I say we attack and destroy them asap.

Posted by wxjames 2006-04-10 07:26|| 2006-04-10 07:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Whoa, easy WXJAMES!
We have to debate it in the UN for at least another 300 months before we can write them a letter telling them that we don't like what they are doing. Then, come the security council circle jerks and so on. Maybe some day we can bomb them, but that will be a long way down the road. Just look at the Sudan dossier.

Posted by Crairt Anginesing8770 2006-04-10 08:54|| 2006-04-10 08:54|| Front Page Top

#5 I suspect that the Iranians are also trying to take out any experienced Iraqi pilots, to prevent the development of a new Iraqi AF.

However, when that time comes, most new Iraqi pilots will prolly be trained in Texas, anyway. Air Forces are not geographically restricted.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-04-10 09:57|| 2006-04-10 09:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Come to think of it, it would be a fine idea for the US to take a bunch of the aircraft from the "Mothball Air Force" in Tucson, which could be fairly cheaply reconditioned in about the same time Iraqi pilots could be trained.

Imagine the Iranians surprise if they woke up one morning and Iraq had a fully operational 300 plane air force? Granted, heavy on transport and reconnaisance aircraft. But in that their older fighter aircraft still sport the latest air-to-air missiles...

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-04-10 10:09|| 2006-04-10 10:09|| Front Page Top

#7 shhhh, Moose. Don't spill the plan ....

Posted by lotp 2006-04-10 12:08|| 2006-04-10 12:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Don't they still have a couple of hundred B-52 at DMAFB?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-04-10 12:15|| 2006-04-10 12:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Most of 'em have their nose and wings chopped off to conform to SALT II.

Posted by 6 2006-04-10 14:22|| 2006-04-10 14:22|| Front Page Top

#10 I thought witches flew broomsticks...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-04-10 15:33|| 2006-04-10 15:33|| Front Page Top

#11 Yes, the F-111s are still intact mojo.

Posted by 6 2006-04-10 16:03|| 2006-04-10 16:03|| Front Page Top

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