From: Steve Grammont (islander@midmaine.com)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2003 - 19:24:09 PDT
Uhm...
>If you believe that any "Evil Empire" think tank actually planned and
>performed the alleged burial of multiple MIGs, with the intent of exhuming
>and refurbishing them for future combat, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Where is it and how much? :-)
So you are saying these are "plants" in order to support the theory that
there really are WMD in Iraq? Gee... wouldn't it have been easier to
simply planted WMD to prove there really were WMD? We've had a couple of
months to really fake something extra specially good. I guess this is
the best you think American covert ops can come up with?
Iraqi leadership knew the airforce would never survive another war, so
they had three choices... let them sit out in the open, fly them to Iran,
or bury them. They tried the first two last time and they didn't work
out so well (Iran still has all the ones flown to them IIRC). So that
leaves option number three.
And before we (the US) found these planes, guess what I heard on the
radio? An interview with an Iraqi general who said... wait for it...
that they burried what was left of their airforce so it wouldn't be
destroyed. But that was an NPR reporter on NPR, which as everybody knows
is in Bush's hip pocket. Guess that is a fake too.
The Iraqis did in fact bury the planes, parts, and even support vehicles.
DURING the war Australian SAS men were the first to discover this. I
can dig up an old article on this and cite the date if you like. I
suppose the Aussies could have planeted them sometime during the night,
using personal entrenching tools, but gee... that seems to be a lot of
work just to make Bush and Rummy look good 6 half a year later when under
fire.
> What
>is the problem with a sovereign country owning and openly storing fighters?
None. However, these were dismantled and burried. That isn't a problem
either in terms of international law, but it demonstrates how hard it is
to find things that are burried in a desert. Even very large things.
That was Rummy's point, and believe in WMD or not... it is a VERY valid
point.
>It is quite aways from that to (scary music goes here) "Weapons of Mass
>Destruction" It's just another Bushy-Rummy scam. Flame away, patriots.
I don't think there are functional WMD to find in Iraq. At least not at
all like the story we were told prior to the war. I think it was a
Bush/Blair (et all) scam or, at best, a terrifically inflated tidbit of
reality. But those are real planes burried by real Iraqis. Of that I am
sure.
Steve
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