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Mar. 20th, 2003 12:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saint_monkeyisn't it odd that this action isn't about oil, and yet Rumsfeld keeps saying "please don't burn the oil." it's not ABOUT the oil, but don't burn it. what did the oil ever do to you? why take this out on the oil? won't somebody think of the OIL?
i would buy it if they said "don't burn the oil, it is really toxic, plus it is hard to put out, you'll pollute the place for ten years," which is all true, but instead they say "don't burn the oil, you'll waste your riches." if i were saddam, that kind of talk would make me want to burn the oil, because it clearly gets the US's attention, and if we move to stop the oil burning, he can say "see, the oil is all they care about." and what good is the oil to saddam if he is dead? so let's just figure tht he is definitely going to burn the oil, stop complaining about it, go in, kill the guy, and secure the oil if that is what you are after. the oil can only burn at a set rate... a prolonged war = less oil. the sooner it is over, the sooner the oil can be saved. screw the kurds, save the oil!
i sure hope they got saddam with that opening salvo. that was a nice tactical move... the kind of thing i would have been trying all along... scare him into a bunker with talk of a long prolonged bombardment, use the sigint to locate him and drop a bomb on the bunker. game over. minimal engagement = minimal collateral damage. if this is tommmy franks style of war, then i must say it's smarter than i gave him credit for.
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i would buy it if they said "don't burn the oil, it is really toxic, plus it is hard to put out, you'll pollute the place for ten years," which is all true, but instead they say "don't burn the oil, you'll waste your riches." if i were saddam, that kind of talk would make me want to burn the oil, because it clearly gets the US's attention, and if we move to stop the oil burning, he can say "see, the oil is all they care about." and what good is the oil to saddam if he is dead? so let's just figure tht he is definitely going to burn the oil, stop complaining about it, go in, kill the guy, and secure the oil if that is what you are after. the oil can only burn at a set rate... a prolonged war = less oil. the sooner it is over, the sooner the oil can be saved. screw the kurds, save the oil!
i sure hope they got saddam with that opening salvo. that was a nice tactical move... the kind of thing i would have been trying all along... scare him into a bunker with talk of a long prolonged bombardment, use the sigint to locate him and drop a bomb on the bunker. game over. minimal engagement = minimal collateral damage. if this is tommmy franks style of war, then i must say it's smarter than i gave him credit for.
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