[quote]doogie wrote:
WMD wrote:
Well, doogie my boy, I spent time in the first Gulf War commanding a C&J platoon. What did you do? Remain stateside pushing paper as part of the chairborne?
Technically, yes. I was still in high school during the first Gulf “War”. What is C&J? I was tempted to come up with my own explanations, but I have more respect for the military than that.
If the only thing you can come up with is more wars on more fronts without enough troops and materiel for the one we’re already engaged in, you are a moron.
Actually, dipshit, I think we should just nuke all of their reactors. Or provide Israel with the means to do the job.
That epithet applies to you, personally, and anyone you voted into office who is now running this war in an incompetent fashion and who seeks to expand the so-called War on Terror to other countries.
What other war have we fought we such efficiency? Vietnam? WWII? I mourn for each of the nearly 2000 troops we’ve lost, but I don’t think a single one of them was wasted. Unless you are talking about Grenada and Panama, I’d like to know when the U.S. military has ever been more efficient.
It also goes for anyone who favors a nuclear response. Only a complete idiot would use a nuke thinking there would be no consequences for us.
What response? Lay it out.
No matter what consequence you name, it won’t be as severe as being nuked by Iranian bombs.
There are several other responses that would make much more sense, you know like pursuing diplomacy coupled with a COVERT action of some sort.
- You can’t negotiate with religious zealots. Even Clinton learned that in Waco.
- Don’t you think any covert actions would be quickly tied to us? “Oh shit, all of our reactors blew up at once. What are the chances of that happening? It must have been an act of God!!”
That way we don’t have to kill every man, woman and child in the region and pollute the whole freakin’ planet in the process.
I have no problem with dropping little notes all over Iran saying “We are going to nuke these specific locations on this date. If you don’t want to glow in the dark, move.”
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C&J means collection and jamming.
As far as a nuclear response goes, does the word fallout mean anything to you? Nukes are anything but precise, therefore the collateral damage will be enormous, there will be few places anyone could move whre they would not be affected. Remember we’re not talking about Fatman and Little Boy any more. We’re talking about much more powerful and sophisticated weapons, even at the tactical level. Nuking a nuclear facility would create an even bigger problem with fallout.
And please help me follow the reasoning behind "Don’t you think any covert actions would be quickly tied to us? “Oh shit, all of our reactors blew up at once. What are the chances of that happening? It must have been an act of God!!”, but they wouldn’t know it was us that nuked them???
I’m beginning to think you were never in the service since you don’t know what a C&J platoon is and you don’t know the difference between a clusterfuck and an efficient operation. See, in the real Army it’s not just the dead that are counted as casualties of war, but the wounded and maimed as well. How many of those are there at Walter Reed that the Bush admin is keeping on the down low?
I never said negotiate with religious fanatics nor terrorists. There are more than just those in Iran. There are many, many things we could do besides nuke anyone, ever. This is not WWII, so don’t even play that card.
WMD
