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2003-03-25 Iraq

Saddam’s Bunkers Said ’Impossible’ to Destroy

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Posted by Steve 2003-03-25 01:15 pm|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Find the ventilators and start pouring concrete. Won't take long. Either the filters get clogged and the ventilators seal shut, or it reaches the bunker, and it gets filled. End of story.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-03-25 13:50:33|| 2003-03-25 13:50:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Old Patriot: actually, I prefer the method where you pour in several tanker-truckloads of gasoline -- following by a lit cigar. But I'm willing to accomodate different points of view and do some experimenting.

Posted by Patrick Phillips 2003-03-25 13:59:29|| 2003-03-25 13:59:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Or just cheap plain old water. As the Northern Alliance did in Mazar-e-Sharif.

Posted by It seeks its on level 2003-03-25 14:14:13|| 2003-03-25 14:14:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Pave over the exits or clog the ventilators--either way, it can be Saddam's multi-million dollar tomb.

Posted by Dar Steckelberg 2003-03-25 14:30:12|| 2003-03-25 14:30:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey, you guys are making me think about Jim Brown's run at the end of "The Dirty Dozen".

Posted by penguin 2003-03-25 15:01:51|| 2003-03-25 15:01:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Heh. Leave der kleine fuhrer to die a very slow death in his Furherbunker.

Posted by Dishman 2003-03-25 15:05:37|| 2003-03-25 15:05:37|| Front Page Top

#7 What about the thermobaric ones that suck all the oxygen out - good for caves, tunnels, bunkers...

Posted by Anonymous 2003-03-25 15:09:41|| 2003-03-25 15:09:41|| Front Page Top

#8 If Yugo bunkers are that good, how come Milosovich is sitting in a cell?

Posted by john 2003-03-25 15:22:09|| 2003-03-25 15:22:09|| Front Page Top

#9 John,
Milo's bunker was fine... It was using a YUGO sedan as a getaway car that was the weak link in the plan. Just followed the blue smoke.
(Yugo: The finest in cutting edge Serbo-Croation technology...)

Posted by Capsu78 2003-03-25 15:29:18|| 2003-03-25 15:29:18|| Front Page Top

#10 I am sure that we will scope out the area and using various technologies will find the ventilation systems, etc etc. Then with a little time we can turn the most expensive bunker into a tomb in the order of the Pharoahs. Then after all is said and done, we can open it up, sanitize it and make it a postwar tourist destination.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-03-25 15:39:21|| 2003-03-25 15:39:21|| Front Page Top

#11 "...late President Josip Broz Tito, who had warm relations with Saddam Hussein"

I suspect that was a Freudian slip - Tito's in hell already, waiting for Sammy to show up, so he can say: "Hot enough for ya Sam? Bwwwaaahhhaahaa"

Posted by Frank G 2003-03-25 18:55:24|| 2003-03-25 18:55:24|| Front Page Top

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