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Iraq is fucked

Started by RPGPundit, November 20, 2006, 03:37:10 PM

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RPGObjects_chuck

#15
November 21, 2006, 02:43:47 AM
Quote from: RPGPunditYou're right that Kissinger, as usual, chose to sneer at democracy (its standard operating procedure for him), but he also suggested that the ONLY possible solution at this point was to break the country apart.  That's more significant, because he's saying that with or without democracy there's no saving Iraq at this point.

RPGPundit

Yeah it's all over but the fingerpointing now. The nations around Iraq aren't even bothering to hide the fact that they're quibbling and squabbling over their peice of the corpse any more.

Chuck

Hastur T. Fannon

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November 21, 2006, 08:00:47 AM
Quote from: cnath.rmThanks for the clarification, always good to know the proper deff's.  On another note however, aren't incendiaries either banned or heavily restricted as to when/where/if they can be used?

As I understand it they should only be used on "material" - buildings, vehicles, supplies, artillary pieces etc.

All this means is that you target the truck and not the people inside it
 

Mr. Analytical

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November 24, 2006, 10:14:06 AM
The thing I'm surprised hasn't had more made of it is that fact that you're now getting government purges.  It's happened twice now; a bunch of trucks turn up outside a ministry, shove everyone into them and if you're the right kind of Muslim you get released, if you're not you get shot.

People are qualifying this as kidnappings but they're clearly purges designed to get the wrong kind of muslim out of positions of power.  It's getting bad when, regardless of whether or not the Iraqi government can defend its citizens (which it manifestly can't or won't), it clearly can't even defend itself.

White phosphorus isn't technically a chemical weapon but it is tactically similar (i.e. it's best deployed against human wave attacks) and does form one part of the Korean claim that the US used chemical weapons against them during the war.

Incendiary devices are a bit like thermobaric weapons in that they're essentially WMDs but not for legal purposes so they're still legal.

RPGObjects_chuck

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November 24, 2006, 10:45:46 AM
138 Iraqis killed in car bombings today.

I guess they're STILL celebrating a democratic victory! :rolleyes:
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