Iraq sucks the big one ...

[Gef]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2871189.stm

Just reading that, and so far Iraq have been unable to actually hurt anyone. The only casualties on our side was an 'accident' can Iraq's really be that crap? I think this quote at the bottom sums it up...

"Iraq fires 10 Scud-type missiles at Kuwait, hours after the first air raid, causing no injuries."

 

[Lester]

Well about 200 allied casualties vs 100,000 from the first conflict says they are crap. But....

1. Don't count your chickens.
2. Be thankful they are.

 

[dysfunction]

whats wrong with this thread ?

Is it b0rked?

 

[Gef]

No its not b0rked but they started talking about Jaffa cakes ..

 

[dysfunction]

Whats wrong with Jaffa Cakes?

Are you prejudiced against them or something?

 

[Gef]

I like a Jaffa cake as much as the next man, but there is a time and a place..

FFS there is a WAR on!!

 

[xane]

I've just been watching a live press announcement with a couple of Iraqi ministers wearing combat gear and carrying AK47s going on about how all the pictures of coalition forces inside Iraq, and those showing soldiers surrendering, are all faked.

Scary.

Now I am watching eight B-52s taking off from UK Fairford airbase, consider that it is estimated that 3 B-52s can create a crater 1 mile square and 50' deep.

Scary scary.

P.S. BBC 24 is so crap, but its all I've got.

 

[Gef]

Propaganda sucks, I guess we will never REALLY know whats going on over there, we see the sugar coated side of it all.

Where did you see that video? Givf links!

 

[xane]

It was live on BBC 24.

 

[Lester]

CNN is shit too.

Sky and BBc are a bit "well something's happening but we can't say what" and CNN are "We're kicking raghead ass!"

Well, not quite but you get the drift.

 

[leggy]

CNN: Bringing international news from all around the US

 

[xane]

BBC 24 starts showing the live interviews and press announcements, from the UK (both Downing Street and HoC), the US and Iraq, then halfway through they cut off or start talking over it, its just so smegging annoying, they're on 24/7 why don't they just let it run, it's not like they are cutting to anything important.

 

[Xtro]

BBC News 24 yesterday:

"And now we switch to our man in Qatar, Nicholas - what's latest there from the diplomatic quarters?"

Reporter: "The silence from diplomatic quarters is deafening. No one is telling us anything".

Cut to news anchorman, obviously flustered by this reply..."So Nicholas, what does this silence tell us?".

Reporter gives camera a "are you a fucking retard, thanks for putting me on the spot look".

Priceless.

 

[dysfunction]

The media are just being their usual sensationalist and highly repetitive selves. They have got dragging news out to a fine art.

I am interested in whats going on but it drives me to drink to have to sit through all the other speculative rubbish they report.

Just give me the straight facts...thats all I ask!!

ffs

tbh

 

[Lester]

Originally posted by dysfunction
Just give me the straight facts...thats all I ask!!

ffs

tbh

Allies 1 - 0 Iraq

midway thru the first half.

Hussein Injured but struggling on.

Crowd are bored already, apparently.

 

[ECA]

The reg got punched at the start of the match and is out cold so anything is going atm.

Allegedly the US players are going to punch the Iraqis and steal their chilled fanta lemon.

 

[Munkey-]

The sun is beating down the but the wind is rushing through the stadium

 

[Mr.Monkey]

Originally posted by Lester
Crowd are bored already, apparently.

LMAO.

n1

 

[Ash!]

THing I found funny was driving into work Yesterday morning. Radio 5 was interviewing Geoff Hoon. Nicky Campbell and I think she is Called Victoria Derbyshire or summat.

R5: So Mr Hoon are we at WAR then ?
GH Not at Liberty to Say
R5: Mr Hoon how did yuo know key Iraqi figures woyuld be in the buildings you bombed ?
GH: Intelligence Sources
R5: Are you willing to reveal the sources of that intelligenece ??
GH: NO
R5: MR Hoon will there be any coalition Casualties ?
GH: Well the nature of war and conflict blah blah blah
R5: MR Hoon you are not answering my question, will there be coalition casualties ???
GH: Obviously there could be some, yes. We obvioulsy want to keep them to a minimum.
R5: So Mr Hoon what you are saying is that Britain is in a state of War and we could suffer casualties??


Thats what you pay your license fee for. Fekkin retarded the lot of them

BTW Is it a good thing or a bad thing that this war is on the TV 24/7. I suppose its part of the operation but half of the Iraqis dont have TV so what purpose does it serve ?

 

[tris-]

Originally posted by widow-maker
BTW Is it a good thing or a bad thing that this war is on the TV 24/7. I suppose its part of the operation but half of the Iraqis dont have TV so what purpose does it serve ?

The only thing they are showing on TV ( in Iraq) are songs and old footage of Iraq in the Gulf War to boost morale.

Its on TV here so we know whats happening, people have family there so im sure theyd want to know whats going on.

 

[Gef]

Whoo found a live feed, Sky News, they keep playing the same stuff over and over but its still quite cool.

Broadband

56k

 

[dysfunction]

Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!11

 

[Gef]

You don't frighten us, English pig dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, you sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you, so-called "Arthur King," you and all your silly English K-nig-hts.

 

[old.D0LLySh33p]

USA/UK = Overkill.

Now the question is... if you were Saddam, and you 'did' have WMDs... would you use them now?

 

[Wij]

I'd ram a scud up my arse so I could at least die in glorious anal pain rather than surrender to the filthy imperialist Bush robot monkey scum !!!!11

 

[Kempo]

tbh www.reuters.com is all you need for news, its where all the news programs get all their stories from so cut out the middle man

 

[Gef]

Originally posted by old.D0LLySh33p
Now the question is... if you were Saddam, and you 'did' have WMDs... would you use them now?

Tis a good point .. bugger

*Ducks and Covers*

 

[xane]

Originally posted by old.D0LLySh33p
Now the question is... if you were Saddam, and you 'did' have WMDs... would you use them now?

Maybe he tried to and they got "neutralized", although if Iraq fired a biological/chemical armed missile it would be a great propaganda coup for the US, the consequences are just unthinkable, I doubt they'd let it happen.

It's unlikely, if they had any useable WMD, they would have been able to deploy them in time for the start, as they must have been well hidden by now. Of course as the conflict wears on, this gives more time for deployment, so a WMD may yet to be used.

 

[kanonfodda]

Originally posted by xane
... Of course as the conflict wears on, this gives more time for deployment, so a WMD may yet to be used.

Do you reckon if we ask nicely enough, they will target places we don't like? (like france ).

 

[Xtro]

Bomb Skegness, I'm sure its an Al-Qaeda stronghold.