If the US and Iraq do go to war, there can only be one winner, can't there? Maybe not. This summer, in a huge rehearsal of just such a conflict - and with retired Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper playing Saddam - the US lost. Julian Borger asks the former marine how he did it Friday September 6, 2002 The Guardian<<
Oh, God help us, not only is a gyrine (typically the most fucked in the head of all those military patriots) in charge of NATO but they are running theatre-wide war games in the run up to another episode of 'Let's bomb Iraq'.
The war games were a joke, the main pretense being that one side should act in accordance with standard US doctrine for conduct of battle and the other one could react freely to it. The real modus operandi will unfold from Rumsfeld's mind, which is bomb them til Bagdhad empties out and then bomb those who stay. More than anything the war games were a 250 million dollar test of the US's secure communications and computer network--you know, the kind of spending that was supposed to save WorldCom and ATT and then made L-3 the 'world beater' it is in the eyes of Warren Buffet. They were a bit cheaper than the war game that was the Afghan campaign of 2001.
Now let's all pretend that the US is the world's only superpower because ALL its military really works. The reality is so long as the B-52s, A-130s and A-10s work and one challenges US naval power, the US can bomb anyone it sees fit to bomb.
CJ
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