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Subject: what if scenerio for gulf war 1
scuttlebut steve    3/17/2007 1:58:14 AM
scenerio: instead of launching a few conventional scuds against israel, saddam launched many nerve gas carrying scuds (they had about 20 mobile launchers) at israel, killing thousands of civilians. could israel be convinced not to retaliate? if israel did, would the arab countries have pulled out of the coalition and would it have mattered? would we have then decided to invade/occupy iraq and kill/capture the iraqi gov? would WMDs have been used against iraq by israel or US?
 
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Bob       3/17/2007 7:31:58 AM
Saddam wouldn't launch scuds carrying nerve gas or anthrax because Israel would retaliate with nuclear weapons. That is the whole point of possessing such weapons. Israel saved herself from such an attack by possessing WMD. Saddam saved himself from an assault on Baghdad due to possession of WMD.
 
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BadNews       3/17/2007 9:17:03 PM
If Saddam had done that, we would have been doing COIN in Bagdad in 1991. We would have convinced Isael no to counter only by giving the assurance that Saddam would not survive the war.
 
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sentinel28a       3/18/2007 9:57:38 PM
If Saddam had done that, we would've been cordoning off the large pane of glass that used to be Baghdad, and asking Iran if they wanted some help from the Great Satan with all that fallout.
 
Saddam was stupid, but not suicidal.
 
 
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scuttlebut steve       3/19/2007 12:37:39 AM

If Saddam had done that, we would've been cordoning off the large pane of glass that used to be Baghdad, and asking Iran if they wanted some help from the Great Satan with all that fallout.

 

Saddam was stupid, but not suicidal.

 


that seems to contradict the administration's stance that saddam was trying to get a nuke so he could use it on america...
that would be suicide too....
 
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