So, that was one expensive hit.

[hootinholler]

I bet Don Vito would have done it for a cool billion and we could have saved a bunch of lives along with all the money we would have saved.

-Hoot

[babylonsister]

1. It ain't over. Not by a long shot, for whatever reason.nt

[sillyphoenix]

2. You know, that would probably have worked.

We could have used the Mafia or the Delta Force. Actually, I remember saying at the beginning of the war, "Couldn't we have just sent in twelve Delta Force commandos and done the exact same thing?" I mean, shit, those guys are good. They'd have been in and out in fifteen minutes.

Of course, the Mafia would have had it easier. Swarthy Italians blend in better than do big, burly Deltas.

[OwnedByFerrets]

3. But that would have been presuming

(incorrectly) that it was all about killing saddam, when in reality it was about money and oil.

[kysrsoze]

9. It would have had the same effect - a country in utter chaos

Only we spent what on this hit to date, nearly $1 trillion?

[Usrename]

10. 20 six-man SEAL teams could have taken out the whole deck.

Remember, they had the decks of cards already printed when we attacked?

[Octafish]

4. The guy was only doing what he was ordered to do.

In 1990, when Saddam asked if the U.S. minded him moving to stop Kuwait's cross-border slant-drilling theft of his oil fields, Acting Ambassador April Glaspie gave him the "green light" to invade Kuwait by stating the U.S. has not position on "Arab-Arab border disputes."

Later, when Saddam offered to withdraw from Kuwait, Poppy said, "No. The war's a go."

[hootinholler]

13. Yep. n/t

[buddysmellgood]

5. No, not really. Do the math. Blood for oil. Quarts per body. Estimated reserves.

What can Bush make per barrel after expending blood the he get paid to spill?

[Nikki Stone1]

6. #5

:kick:

[EFerrari]

7. No kidding, hoot. All of that.

:(

[K8-EEE]

8. I hope Saddam is three times deader than the soldiers killed today

and three thousand times deader than all the other soldiers killed, and half a million times more dead than all the dead Iraqi civilians.

That would really make it worth it I guess.

[Philosoraptor]

11. It would've been cheaper to do a regular hit.

I'd call it a botched hit job.

[maine_raptor]

12. But if we did that, then

we wouldn't have been able to have all the "Shock and Awe" pics and Bush and Rummy wouldn't have had a chance to see if their cool smart bombs worked!

And without an invasion, how would Dick be able to help out his poor friends at Halliburton?

No, it had to be a full scale, all-out, "send in the Marines" type of thing.

Doing it your way would have meant that Bush wouldn't have gotten to play dress up and wear that flight suit while proclaiming "Mission Accomplished". By sending in the Mafia or Delta Team there just wouldn't have been all the photo ops that KKKarl wanted.

[msedano]

14. shrub playing dress-up like a pilot

David Mamet in his 2005 courtroom farce, Romance, has a truly show-stopping line. Recounting how the pendejo-in-chief flew onto the aircraft carrier dressed in a flight suit, the playwrite observes the straps criss-crossed in such a way that "the president finally had a chance to prove to the world he had balls".