Well, my alter ego Bakedclam is a right winger and I propose that we wait until the weekend to make our move. (NK says they are going to test another weapon this weekend)
The instant they test another nuke, we giv'em the real thing. Bush can claim their test must have backfired and serves them right for being blown up by their own weapons.
Wanna know what we're up against?
A satellite image from the U.S. Department of Defense of the Korean Peninsula at night, showing the lights of South Korea and the relative darkness of North Korea (TOP), is shown at a news briefing by U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon in Washington, October 11, 2006.
well at least they are nice enough to outline their country with lights. That way we can know if we are over land when dropping bombs.
Ok, where's my check?
What resources is N. Korea gonna use to attack the South? Where is it gonna get its ammo and gas to drive this 'war machine south'? China? Russia? Don't bet on it.
U.S. contigency plans for war with N. Korea are all horrific...
LinkPLANS previously drafted by the Pentagon predict 52,000 US military casualties and one million civilian dead in the first 90 days of conflict if America attacked Pyongyang.
The US leadership is looking at international economic and diplomatic sanctions against North Korea as its primary response to Monday's nuclear test.
But military contingencies are considered as a matter of course and analysts paint a horrific picture for even the most targeted of US strikes.
A report this week by US-based security and military analyst Stratfor predicts North Korea could return fire on Seoul with "several hundred thousand high-explosive rounds per hour" -- with up to 25 per cent of s s filled with nerve gas.
Other estimates say the US would need at least 500,000 ground troops to secure against a North invasion of the South.
The U.S. should have started a draft 2 years ago, now it seems like it maybe inevitable.
So much for this nation's commitment to liberating oppressed people by regime change.
Policy driven by economic realities much?
Nice reach, Gumby.
Looks like someone left a light on up North.
That's the set of Kim's latest movie.
Slam dunk?
Source: U.S. has evidence of radioactivity from N. Korea
From Jamie McIntyre
CNN Washington Bureau
CNNWASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States has evidence of radioactivity from a site where North Korea was suspected of conducting a nuclear weapons test, a U.S. official said Friday.
The official said the evidence is preliminary, but if it is confirmed, the United States will be in a position to confirm North Korea's claim on Monday that it successfully set off a nuclear blast for the first time.
The report appeared to contradict a CNN report earlier Friday from two U.S. government officials with access to classified information that an initial air sampling over North Korea showed no indication of radioactive debris.
Somebody please take the pieoty away from the General...
LA TimesWASHINGTON — The U.S. military's top officer said Thursday that the Pentagon would have sufficient forces to win if called on to fight a war in North Korea, but the conflict would be more difficult without the intelligence and guidance systems devoted to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that about 200,000 U.S. troops were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, leaving more than 2 million troops available for a war in Asia.
Pace said a conflict with North Korea, which both he and President Bush have said is highly unlikely, would rely heavily on the Navy and Air Force because of the significant deployment of land forces in Iraq. In addition, such an attack would not be "as clean as we would like," he said, because guidance systems used to aim bombs were in use in the Middle East.
"You wouldn't have the precision in combat going to a second theater of war that you would if you were only going to the first theater of war," Pace told a group of military reporters. "You end up dropping more bombs potentially to get the job done, and it would mean more brute force."
Yeah, he'd have 2 million troops if he drafted every eligible draft-age boys between 18 and 49.
All I have to say is Bush/Clinton are both idiots for not doing something about it before it comes to war. And if there is a draft my ass is heading north(Canada) because this isn't worth fighting for. I'd rather not lose my life due to Bush's mistakes. It's one thing to defend your country if we were under attack like say Pearl Harbor,I would have no problem joining the military if that was the case. But you have to learn to pick and choose your battles.
Last edited by mavs>spurs2; 10-14-2006 at 01:45 AM.
You think that 's funny? Loss of thousands of innocent lives is funny to you?(Actually probably millions of lives if you count both Korean and U.S. casualties.)
Last edited by 01Snake; 10-14-2006 at 10:06 AM.
Pace misspoke or was misquoted.
Beginning of 2004, there were 500K Army and 700K Army Reserve. The Army is just now fighting the mind-numbingly incompetent con man Rummy to get just 30K more troops. There were only 780K at the end of the Cold War.
There's no way the US has 2M troops.
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The sanctions, watered down, have just passed.
Agreed.the only way you folks could even think of a ground invasion or at least a ground operation would be with the MASSIVE help of China. The only way you guys can keep on invadin', is with the help of china and/or India. they are the only ones who could make that sort of effort.
I think I already posted this, but roughly one quarter to three sixteenths of the Chinese population is eligible for military conflict, which equals out to roughly
anywhere from 318,750,000 to 425,000,000. That is a of a lot of people. Think about that, three sixteenths (approximates) of the Chinese population is about equal to that of the U.S.
THAT is scary.
Yeah, no doubt about it, if there is a draft I am moving. For good.
Death for Bush or being forced to find a new place to live, and get to learn a new language. This scale is tipped to 12:00.
I'll be damned, seems we go their attention. Guess who wants to come back to the table?
Is Kim Jong Mentally-Ill running short on that French brandy already?
Why don't you go ahead and move now? Undoubtedly, there's going to be a future conflict over which you'll be unwilling to serve your country...so, really, go.
I hear Venezuela is nice this time of year.
I'll be damned, aren't sanctions what the UN wanted for Iraq?
Yep, and 17 UNSC Resolutions and 12 years later, it had to come to regime change. Let's Hope Kim Jong Mentally-Ill is a little smarter.
"it had to come to regime change."
no, it didn't. But keeping defending your murderous WH liars and their bull phony war. It's so successful, and so popular, it's the war NO REPUG wants to mention in the current election.
Well, there isn't any hope that Dumbya gets any smarter.
Just as there ins't any hope that you could get any dumber.
...eMule?
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