North Korea threatening US w/ nuclear missile

[bignate73]

Well that would be 500M from each of them, so $1T total. Surely that could cover about 60-90 days of carpet bombing.

Here's a link: http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182 that has the cost of Iraq running around 300B. I didn't spend enough time on the site to see which direction that number might be slanted tho.

errr...$500M x2? = 1 Billion.

THAT would pay for a week.

Coming soon to a theater: Shock and Awe 2: Oops Sorry South Korea!

 

[mrplunkey]

You know... in retrospect maybe that's part of what was missing in our Iraq strategy. We should have met with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey and Iran first. Then discussed how we were going to carve Iraq up. Then, all we sign-up for is 90 days of complete and total military maiming -- carpet bombing till they can't see the light of day. After that, we let the other guys move-in and claim their new territory and pay us for our efforts.

The real genius there is not only time time, cost and US lives it would save. The real benefit is the message we'd be sending: "Fuck with us and we'll destroy your military and carve-up your country. Have a nice day."

 

[redguru]

South Korea wouldn't be mad at us, they're still too elated from tying France in a World Cup match.

 

[mrplunkey]

errr...$500M x2? = 1 Billion.

THAT would pay for a week.

Coming soon to a theater: Shock and Awe 2: Oops Sorry South Korea!

BAH! My bad... I meant Billion!

I just got off the eliptical. My head is still swimming.

You're right... we'd need half a trillion each but that should be a relatively small price to pay for half a country.

 

[bignate73]

hehehe. yeah i thought the math was a bit off.

 

[nimbus]

You know... in retrospect maybe that's part of what was missing in our Iraq strategy. We should have met with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey and Iran first. Then discussed how we were going to carve Iraq up. Then, all we sign-up for is 90 days of complete and total military maiming -- carpet bombing till they can't see the light of day. After that, we let the other guys move-in and claim their new territory and pay us for our efforts.

The real genius there is not only time time, cost and US lives it would save. The real benefit is the message we'd be sending: "Fuck with us and we'll destroy your military and carve-up your country. Have a nice day."

How did they "fuck with us" exactly? I thought the whole point of the campaign was to 'liberate the iraqi people,' not give away their country and put them at the mercy of nations who are or were their enemies. I'm sure iran and kuwait would love to naturalize the millions of iraqi citizens who occupy their newfound territory, and vice versa.

 

[mrplunkey]

How did they "fuck with us" exactly? I thought the whole point of the campaign was to 'liberate the iraqi people,' not give away their country and put them at the mercy of nations who are or were their enemies. I'm sure iran and kuwait would love to naturalize the millions of iraqi citizens who occupy their newfound territory, and vice versa.

They fucked with us by:

1) Fighting against weapons inspection in defiance of multiple UN resolutions that people have conveniently forgotten were the TERMS of the cease-fire that ended the original Gulf War. People love to talk about us acting unilaterally but what they forget is that inspections were part of the cease fire that got us off their ass in the first place.

2) Creating the impression that they were sponsoring terrorists. Even if Sadaam wasn't giving these fringe groups money, safe haven and support (and he was) -- he still went out of his way to leave the world with the impression that he was.

3) Creating the impression that he had WMD. He obviously had them... those kurds he gassed before the Gulf War didn't choke on smog. He could have easily complied with inspections and even embarassed the US with a sparkling-clean weapons inspection report. Instead, he obfuscated UN efforts which made totally no sense at all.

And the kurds want their own state anyway. The shiate muslums weren't particularly happy being controlled by the bathe party either. Its not like that place was this homogenious, happy place to begin with.

 

[cboogsrun]

With all due respect. Your the one who does not seem to understand.

Lost people to what bullshit? The war? People die in war it's a sad reality. People had to DIE so you have the freedom to sit on your computer and post on this board.


Let them do there thing ??? So they can hold this country and others hostage with the threat of nukes?

Tell countries how to live? How in the hell does this tell them how to live?

Your right we should worry about the US. But there are serious threats to the US (which includes YOU) from abroad. And you better damn well wake up and realize that fact.

Since when did the war in Iraq liberate me or any one else I know. When I raised my right hand and was sworn in, I never heard or repeated anything about policing the world. I said I would defend the constitution against for and domestic threats. Not impede on another countries problems, especially when we have an assload here to deal with. The troops over in Iraq could easily be used to gaurd the boarder of mex/usa. Which would help my tax money get used properly instead of on mex. citizens. I'm an american and my taxes should be used to aid americans, not mexicans.

 

[mrplunkey]

Since when did the war in Iraq liberate me or any one else I know. When I raised my right hand and was sworn in, I never heard or repeated anything about policing the world. I said I would defend the constitution against for and domestic threats. Not impede on another countries problems, especially when we have an assload here to deal with. The troops over in Iraq could easily be used to gaurd the boarder of mex/usa. Which would help my tax money get used properly instead of on mex. citizens. I'm an american and my taxes should be used to aid americans, not mexicans.

The theory, whether someone agrees with it or not, is that by taking the fight to them you lessen the risk to US soil.

If your neighbor says "I have a gun and I'm going to come over and shoot you someday" you have two choices. Wait and see if he shoots you or go to his house and take the fight to him.

 

[jafo]

Sounds like a second cold war is brewing ....if it didn’t work with Russia why would they think that with less than half the resources of Russia they can make it work

They are heavily armed and have allot of well trained forces. They would not be an easy country to just run over like we did in the gulf