Your comments make me think there is a great irony in all this: typically, the element of surprise is best used against the enemy. In this case, we were the ones surprised.
Anyways, this strike sounds like a fairly significant one, and that there were a lot of men and resources involved. It is surprising to think that, after the fact and considering the current political climate, the attack hardly registers as news. Apparently, the story was covered by many of the UK newspapers but not too many here in the US. My $.02, M -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 12:29 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: U.S., UK launch major Iraq airstrikes Wow, amazing! The media actually didn't ruin a military action before it had a chance to get off the ground! . and even cooler, the pic for the article is from the ship I made two cruises on, the USS George Washington (CVN-73). Now for the important thing. Airstrikes on Iraq are nothing new. We've been enforcing their "No Fly" zone since the end of operations. Why? Well if we didn't they'd be bombing and gassing their own civilians (political dissidents and members of opposing groups mainly) still... that is if there were any left. I was also there when Hussein decided to try for a second shot at Kuwait and tried to mass troops on his southern border... I think it was late 1993. We ended up cancelling all of our port visits for 3 months (a total of 4) through the end of our cruise. If you can't tell, I'm completely thrilled that we didn't hear anything about it until now. It keeps our service personnel safer and makes the attack more effective. It wasn't anything new or ununsual, aside from the strike squadron's size, which might have been because Hussein has snuck AA into the no-fly zone and tried to shoot down our pilots in the past. It is amazing how someone who's supposed to be using oil money to pay for human works and health and welfare projects can still build a military. Hatton PS: My answer is still glass. ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
