Do some countries now possess high resolution satellite imagery of Bush's bloody and brutal surge?

[NNN0LHI]

Like Russia? Or China? Or others?

I am not exactly sure how this stuff works but if our spy satellites were capable of reading the brand of cigarette someone was smoking from outer space 20 years ago the science must have really improved since then.

Does anyone know about such stuff?

Don

[Johonny]

1. highly likely

It's clear the Chinese have been collecting data from the Iraq war for war gaming purposes. I imagine the Russian and even Europeans have as well.

[bananas]

2. Of course they do

They all were watching the first gulf war, too.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p01s02-wosc.html

In war, some facts less factual
Some US assertions from the last war on Iraq still appear dubious.
By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

MOSCOW – When George H. W. Bush ordered American forces to the Persian Gulf – to reverse Iraq's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait – part of the administration case was that an Iraqi juggernaut was also threatening to roll into Saudi Arabia.

Citing top-secret satellite images, Pentagon officials estimated in mid–September that up to 250,000 Iraqi troops and 1,500 tanks stood on the border, threatening the key US oil supplier.

But when the St. Petersburg Times in Florida acquired two commercial Soviet satellite images of the same area, taken at the same time, no Iraqi troops were visible near the Saudi border – just empty desert.

"It was a pretty serious fib," says Jean Heller, the Times journalist who broke the story.

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