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[quote][i]Originally posted by flamingchopper[/i]@Feb 27 2003, 09:24 PM [b] I think there is nothing to talk about. If Bush would send a hiped you redneck over there to KILL taht son of bi&%h we would not have any more porblems out of them. That is just me thow :P [/b][/quote] Great idea FC, gunboat diplomacy at it's best. If you don't get what you want hit the other person until you get it. Didn't realise we were all still in play school (that's kindergarten for the American viewers) here kiddies. Now let's look at the reality of the situation. Good ol' Bush wants to kill Saddam because pops didn't manage it the first time round. Why didn't daddy manage it? First problem, you've got to find him, get access to him, ensure it's the real Saddam and not another of his body doubles (highly dangerous but ultimately lucrative job opportunities in the offing there for anyone willing to under go the plastic surgery required) and then you've got to kill him in a way that doesn't link it back to you. Cause if they do link it back to you then you've achieved nothing apart from putting another of his flunkies in charge. Second problem, if Saddam is to be assasinated it must look like it came from the will of the Iraqi people themselves, was carried out by the Iraqi people and all his flunkies need to be got at the same time. Does anyone here think that this is possible for any government intelligence agency in the world? It's not, otherwise it would have been done already. The CIA couldn't even kill Castro and god knows they've tried, MI6 (not really called that but it's what we all know it as) is too busy recruiting drunks from Cambridge or selling out it's informants (anyone remember Daniel Smout (name changed to protect the innocent), our man in Bagdad, a Britsh businessman with intelligence service links who lingers in a jail in Bagdad unrecognised to this day), the French are too busy blowing up soap dodging, tree hugging dolphin swimmwers (knew there was a reason to like the French for some small thing :D ) to get anything organised. I could keep going like this all day but I think you get the picture. IT CAN'T BE DONE. The days of my stick is bigger than yours have been truely numbered for several decades, blowing up half the world to prove a point or to get your way is no longer a viable option. Look what happened to us Brits and Hong Kong. We forced the Chinese to let us have it by sailing a gunboat up a river and threatening the Emporer (hence the term gunboat diplomacy). Even then we couldn't just take the place over, we had to agree lease terms. Those terms came up in 1999 and the Chinese slapped us in the face and told us to pi$$ off, we weren't keeping it anymore. What could we do about it, nothing. We just came home tail between legs and got on with life. So yes I'm all for discussion between Bush and Saddam, but wouldn't it be whole lot more fun to put them in a ring and let them thrash out their differences celebrity boxing style. Got to be the biggest pay per view event in history in the making there I think.
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