"He was shooting at our airplanes...I mean, the guy was a threat."

[TheGunslinger]

* from yesterday's catapaulting of the propaganda.



Question: Saddam shot at our airplanes? I remember the stories of the "radar locks" as US/British planes "patrolled" the no-fly zones but were shots ever fired at our planes? I sure don't remember that.


But, hey, I mean, the guy was a threat."

[formercia]

1. Did he ever shoot any down?

I wonder what the rednecks around here would do if the UN ordered a no fly zone over the US?

[EFerrari]

2. You mean our airplanes in his airspace?

The thing is, we'll never know because only the Pentagon would report and they lie like hell. I once heard (sorry, I don't know where) that our "airplanes" were bombing Iraq before Monkey Boy declared war.

[madokie]

3. Sadamm was totally boxed in, no threat to anyone

dam sure not us.

[EFerrari]

9. No, he wasn't a threat to any one. n/t

[zbdent]

10. YES HE WAS!

Just, in a Rube Goldberg sort of way . . .

:evilgrin:

[EFerrari]

12. Lol!

[acmavm]

5. I read about that too. But hey, that was the bush** imperial

forces clearing a path for the footsoldiers of the invasion and occupation.

'LET FREEDOM REIGN' and all that crap.

[PaulaFarrell]

6. we were bombing ever since the first Gulf war n/t

[liberal N proud]

4. He is digging deep now.

The reason bu$h sold Iraq war had nothing to do with shooting airplanes, now all of a sudden this pops up?

DESPERATE

[TheGunslinger]

7. Yeah, I've never heard this particular phrase before.

We've seen the charts showing the massive run-up in bombings of Iraqi military installations in an attempt to draw Saddam into war but I damn sure don't remember there ever being any shots taken at our aircraft.

[rooboy]

8. And don't forget this is the guy who tried to kill his Dad.` n/t

[Mossadeq]

11. fuck that.

The no-fly-zones were not covered by any UN resolution, they were illegal. Saddam was shooting at planes that were flying over his country and bombing it after he signed a cease-fire agreement with said country.

How stupid is this guy ?

[rman]

13. I think Saddam did shoot back on a few occasions, but that would be

because the US was (and still is) a threat to Iraq.


It's like stomping on a guy's face, he squirms, and than you kill him "because he was a threat".