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2003-03-14 Iraq

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Posted by tu3031 2003-03-14 04:45 pm|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "So if you take out the central CP nothing gets blown up, right? That's dumb."

It works with a negative control system. As long as the bombs keep getting a signal from the CP, all's ok. Take out the CP, signal dies, boom...

Posted by mojo 2003-03-14 16:02:59|| 2003-03-14 16:02:59|| Front Page Top

#2 I thought of negative control too, but that's kind of risky. If for some reason the power goes out then "BOOM".

"Achmed, why did the oil well blow up? All I did was turn off this computer..."

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2003-03-14 16:54:30|| 2003-03-14 16:54:30|| Front Page Top

#3 I think, sadly, the only way to stop the wells from getting torched is to pray that the guys in charge opt to disobey orders and leave the facilities intact. Hopefully they'll have their own, their families', and their countrymen's futures in mind and hold those more precious than obeying a tyrant's scorched earth orders.

That last sentence applies to the guys in charge of the chemical and biological weapons, as well.

Posted by Dar Steckelberg 2003-03-14 17:41:32|| 2003-03-14 17:41:32|| Front Page Top

#4 In August 1944, when the Allied armies raced towards Paris, Hitler gave secret orders to his newly appointed Commander of Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, to reduce this most beautiful of all cities to 'a field of rubble'. To refuse the order was to risk his own life and put his family at risk of gruesome death at the hands of the Gestapo.
The general did not carry out the order.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-03-14 20:39:32|| 2003-03-14 20:39:32|| Front Page Top

#5 But if the United States takes action to stop an Iraqi first strike, especially if they try to seize and protect the oil fields, U.S. officials admit they may end up starting the war itself.

Who the hell cares who starts it?

Our aim should be to FINISH it.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-03-14 21:29:55|| 2003-03-14 21:29:55|| Front Page Top

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