Mass destruction weapons in Iraq

[Mick]

Originally posted by Elrond


Their homes are being bombed. It seems that some soldiers have decided to fight, and that not every one surrenders.

Obviously, the Iraqis are poorly equiped and will probably not be a big trouble, but some of them doesn't welcome the US soldiers. Given the coalition tactics of bombing cities, they HAVE something to fight for that is worth much more than SH.


None, But he still have some parts of his army in which he would have much more confidence than others.

My comment was to reflect using WMD on your own terriotry. But they have done it before in Iraq. I don't find it hard to believe anyone being patriotic and wanting to defend their own lands, but lauching WMD on your own land, I would any person doing so would hesitate. Also the circumstances are different, some don't want to fight for Saddam. I don't say all, I say some. And we are doing our best not to bomb their homes, just saddams homes.

Lousy argument. The French had a good tank, may be two... They had so few that they had no chance against the german tanks. This came from an initial strategy mistake. After, that, they really didn't have a real chance of doing anything. When the war started, it was already too late.

Actually they had more tanks than the germans. They just spread them out. While the Germans used their blitzkrieg and concentrated armour tactics.

About Iraq, they have a very poor army, and we know they have about no chance to beat the US-led coalition. But they can still do some damage and kill some coalition soldiers, even if that's about all they can do.

Would some dangerous crazy leader attack your country, with an army so big you would have no chance of success, would this army bomb your cities, would you just surrender because the opponent is too strong?

No I wouldn't surrender if I beleived in what I was fighting for. My point is I do not think the vast majority of Iraqi soldiers believe in what they are fighting for.

And I don't know why they wouldn't use their WMD. Launching a few missiles with gaz have very little chances to trigger a nuclear ripost by the US. It could kill a few soldiers, as they don't wear their gas-mask 24 hours a day. And SH has not really anything to loose anymore, and probably have enough loyal soldiers to launch a few of them.

They may or may not kill a few soilders. Gas masks are not the only thing you need when dealing with WMD. They are as prepared as they can be with chem/bio suits and gas mask ready. I'll point out again that some of our armour M1A2 I believe is chem/bio resistant. I have to agree, you'd have to kill alot of our soilders to trigger any tactical nuke usage. I don't know about SH, if you have read his bio you would see he is the consumate survivour. I believe he believes he can get out of this. If he uses WMD he certainly wouldn't be able to negotiate at the end for exile. But who knows his mind...