Without nukes, how can a western country like america overcomes countries where people are prepared to sacrifice themselves and there children to win a war. You cant hold up against that sort of commitment. Australia lost there 10th soldier in Afghanistan a few days ago, and even that was a big loss for us, so how will we ever win against it|||I wonder if Australians or Americans would be willing to do the same if we were attacked in our own countries?
Would we be as fanatical and sacrifice as some people do?
I know that our military sacrifice themselves or risk death when going to was on foreign soil - 4000 Americans killed in the Iraq war alone.
Would I personally be a suicide bomber? Would I let my son or daughter? I don't think so! That's what we are up against.|||exactly... what i dont understand is why we are in war with Iraq when other countries have the same problems... it kind of makes me sad.|||Start sending people to war that we don't need:
Rednecks
KKK members
Madoff
Saturday, October 1, 2011
How the hell did the war between Iraq and America even start?
I know Iraq didnt just wake up one day and decided to be a dick and just started the war. So who started it first, when did it start and how did it start?|||"I know Iraq didnt just wake up one day and decided to be a dick and just started the war."
Yeah, they pretty much did. Rolled down into Kuwait and dicked the place up until we chased them out. Then dicked over the Kurds, the Marsh Arabs, American and British no-fly zone enforcers, the UN Oil for Food program, and the UN weapons inspectors. Dick, dick, dick.|||Which one?
The first war (1991) was when Iraq invaded Kuwait and we attacked and drove them out.
The second war (2003-now) was when... OK, we invaded them, and we still haven't settled on a real reason for it. The cover story was that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and that the United States was entitled somehow to invade any country that could conceivably ever attack us. Whatever.|||At 8:00 PM on 17 March 1987, a Mirage F-1 fighter jet took off from Iraq's Shaibah military airport and headed south into the Persian Gulf, flying along the Saudi Arabian coast. An Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) plane, in the air over Saudi Arabia and manned by a joint American-Saudi crew, detected the aircraft. Aboard the USS Stark, a Perry-class frigate on duty in the gulf, radar operators picked up the Mirage when it was some 200 miles away; it was flying at 5,000 feet and traveling at 550 mph. Captain Glenn Brindel, 43, commander of the Stark, was not particularly alarmed. He knew it was fairly common for Iraqi and Iranian warplanes to fly over the gulf. Earlier in the day, Iraqi jets had fired missiles into a Cypriot tanker, disabling the vessel. But no American vessel had been attacked.
In keeping with standard procedure, Captain Brindel ordered a radio message flashed at 10:09 PM: "Unknown aircraft, this is U.S. Navy warship on your 078 for twelve miles. Request you identify yourself." There was no reply. A second request was sent. Still no answer. Brindel noted that the aircraft's pilot had not locked his targeting radar on the Stark, so he expected it to veer away.
At 10:10 PM, the AWACS crew noticed that the Mirage had banked suddenly and then turned northward, as though heading for home. What they failed to detect was the launching by the Iraqi pilot of two Exocet AM39 air-to-surface missiles. The Exocets had a range of 40 miles and each carried a 352 lb. warhead. For some reason, the sea-skimming missiles were not detected by the Stark's sophisticated monitoring equipment. A lookout spotted the first Exocet just seconds before the missile struck, tearing a ten-by-fifteen-foot hole in the warship's steel hull on the port side before ripping through the crew's quarters. The resulting fire rushed upward into the vessel's combat information center, disabling the electrical systems. The second missile plowed into the frigate's superstructure.
A crewman sent a distress signal with a handheld radio that was picked up by the USS Waddell, a destroyer on patrol nearby. Meanwhile, the AWACS crew requested that two airborne Saudi F-15s pursue the Iraqi Mirage. But ground controllers at Dhahran airbase said they lacked the authority to embark on such a mission, and the Mirage was safely back in Iraqi airspace before approval could be obtained.
As fires raged aboard the Stark, Brindel ordered the starboard side blooded to keep the gaping hole on the port side above the waterline. All through the night the fate of the stricken frigate was in doubt. Once the inferno was finally under control, the Stark limped back to port. The Navy immediately launched an investigation into an incident that had cost 37 American seamen their lives. The Stark was endowed with an impressive array of defenses -- an MK92 fire control system that could intercept incoming aircraft at a range of 90 miles; an OTO gun that could fire three-inch anti-aircraft shells at a rate of 90 per minute; electronic defenses that could produce bogus radar images to deceive attackers; and the Phalanx, a six-barreled gun that could fire 3,000 uranium rounds a minute at incoming missiles. Brindel insisted that his ship's combat system was fully operational, but Navy technicians in Bahrain said the Stark's Phalanx system had not been working properly when the frigate put out to sea. (Brindel was relieved of duty and later forced to retire.)
Yeah, they pretty much did. Rolled down into Kuwait and dicked the place up until we chased them out. Then dicked over the Kurds, the Marsh Arabs, American and British no-fly zone enforcers, the UN Oil for Food program, and the UN weapons inspectors. Dick, dick, dick.|||Which one?
The first war (1991) was when Iraq invaded Kuwait and we attacked and drove them out.
The second war (2003-now) was when... OK, we invaded them, and we still haven't settled on a real reason for it. The cover story was that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and that the United States was entitled somehow to invade any country that could conceivably ever attack us. Whatever.|||At 8:00 PM on 17 March 1987, a Mirage F-1 fighter jet took off from Iraq's Shaibah military airport and headed south into the Persian Gulf, flying along the Saudi Arabian coast. An Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) plane, in the air over Saudi Arabia and manned by a joint American-Saudi crew, detected the aircraft. Aboard the USS Stark, a Perry-class frigate on duty in the gulf, radar operators picked up the Mirage when it was some 200 miles away; it was flying at 5,000 feet and traveling at 550 mph. Captain Glenn Brindel, 43, commander of the Stark, was not particularly alarmed. He knew it was fairly common for Iraqi and Iranian warplanes to fly over the gulf. Earlier in the day, Iraqi jets had fired missiles into a Cypriot tanker, disabling the vessel. But no American vessel had been attacked.
In keeping with standard procedure, Captain Brindel ordered a radio message flashed at 10:09 PM: "Unknown aircraft, this is U.S. Navy warship on your 078 for twelve miles. Request you identify yourself." There was no reply. A second request was sent. Still no answer. Brindel noted that the aircraft's pilot had not locked his targeting radar on the Stark, so he expected it to veer away.
At 10:10 PM, the AWACS crew noticed that the Mirage had banked suddenly and then turned northward, as though heading for home. What they failed to detect was the launching by the Iraqi pilot of two Exocet AM39 air-to-surface missiles. The Exocets had a range of 40 miles and each carried a 352 lb. warhead. For some reason, the sea-skimming missiles were not detected by the Stark's sophisticated monitoring equipment. A lookout spotted the first Exocet just seconds before the missile struck, tearing a ten-by-fifteen-foot hole in the warship's steel hull on the port side before ripping through the crew's quarters. The resulting fire rushed upward into the vessel's combat information center, disabling the electrical systems. The second missile plowed into the frigate's superstructure.
A crewman sent a distress signal with a handheld radio that was picked up by the USS Waddell, a destroyer on patrol nearby. Meanwhile, the AWACS crew requested that two airborne Saudi F-15s pursue the Iraqi Mirage. But ground controllers at Dhahran airbase said they lacked the authority to embark on such a mission, and the Mirage was safely back in Iraqi airspace before approval could be obtained.
As fires raged aboard the Stark, Brindel ordered the starboard side blooded to keep the gaping hole on the port side above the waterline. All through the night the fate of the stricken frigate was in doubt. Once the inferno was finally under control, the Stark limped back to port. The Navy immediately launched an investigation into an incident that had cost 37 American seamen their lives. The Stark was endowed with an impressive array of defenses -- an MK92 fire control system that could intercept incoming aircraft at a range of 90 miles; an OTO gun that could fire three-inch anti-aircraft shells at a rate of 90 per minute; electronic defenses that could produce bogus radar images to deceive attackers; and the Phalanx, a six-barreled gun that could fire 3,000 uranium rounds a minute at incoming missiles. Brindel insisted that his ship's combat system was fully operational, but Navy technicians in Bahrain said the Stark's Phalanx system had not been working properly when the frigate put out to sea. (Brindel was relieved of duty and later forced to retire.)
Who participated in the following war anectdote and when did it occur?
The gist of the anecdote: due to an ongoing war a detachment of soldiers were ordered to return home and father children to bolster a plummeting population.
I'm quite certain it involves Ancient Greece somehow. Can anyone please tell me any specifics, such as which Greek city-state was involved or the time period?
Any leads would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to all who reply.|||Are you refering to the " lebensborn " program ? In WW2, they were German SS baby farms.
I'm quite certain it involves Ancient Greece somehow. Can anyone please tell me any specifics, such as which Greek city-state was involved or the time period?
Any leads would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to all who reply.|||Are you refering to the " lebensborn " program ? In WW2, they were German SS baby farms.
How did the economy help start the civil war?
How did the economy (before the civil war) help to cause the war?|||The North wanted to free the Slaves. The South wanted to keep the Slaves as Slaves.
Slaves were paid very little, if anything. To Free the Slaves would mean they would be paid the same as a White person. This would increase the cost-of-production on Southern Farms/Plantations by an amount that would drive most out of business.|||North: Pro-Tariffs (to support Northern industrialism, to oppose foreign markets in America)
South: Anti-Tariffs (to support foreign markets in America, to oppose Northern industrialism)
Answer mine: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;鈥?/a>
Slaves were paid very little, if anything. To Free the Slaves would mean they would be paid the same as a White person. This would increase the cost-of-production on Southern Farms/Plantations by an amount that would drive most out of business.|||North: Pro-Tariffs (to support Northern industrialism, to oppose foreign markets in America)
South: Anti-Tariffs (to support foreign markets in America, to oppose Northern industrialism)
Answer mine: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;鈥?/a>
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
What effects did the Soviet war in Afghanistan have on the United States?
I know about the boycott of the Olympics, but what else? Was the U.S. sort of dragged into a conflict?
What implications did this have? Also, do you know of any websites where I can find more information about the United States' involvement and policies during this war?
Thanks.|||Does 9/11 ring any bells. It was a direct result of the Soviet/Afghan war.
Washington, in its infinite wisdom, decided that it needed a local rebel army to fight the Russians because it was scared to get US troops involved in case it turned into another Vietnam (Or even a nuclear war) so it trained and armed the local Islamic resistance groups to fight the Russians by proxy.
These groups eventually became the Taliban and the wider structure around them became Al Quaida.
Both groups were initially pro US, but after the war Washington screwed them over. It was supposed to help them to rebuild their country even better than before and to help them to transform it into an independent Islamic homeland. But Washington just pulled out and left them to starve. This resentment made them turn against the US and open to people like Osama Bin Laden who eventually got them to fly planes into US landmarks.
Funny isn't it? That an army that America built to fight the Soviet and then abandoned became the biggest threat to US lives after the fall of the Soviet Union.|||Poor judgment on the behalf of Charlie Wilson(another Texas Chicken Hawk) secured the replenishment and supply the Jihad militants against the Soviet incursion into Afghanistan caused many problems we have today.Western military adventurism in any "STAN has often
ended in disaster for the West from the British during the reign in India to more recent examples of the Soviet and USA.To suggest that Soviet
incursion caused the collapse of the Soviet is a simple minded level of misinterpretation of what dynamic was involved.|||as this was the time of the cold war, the USA supported afghani
fighters including taliban. now the USA have to carry the
consequences and have inflicted the rest of the world with this
plague.|||Yes, the American involvement in the Soviet caused the breakup of the soviet russia and created the taliban which in turn helped alqaeda which in turn did 9/11 which in turn created about around 4-5 million refugees in pakistan.... :)|||The Russians "departed" Afghanistan after 10 years with nothing achieved, the US should have learned from that.|||The American athletes couldn't go to the Olympics. Among other things, like those mentioned by some of your other Answers.|||proved that the Afghans cant be messed about with with impunity.However, it's going to take a new lesson in bloody noses to re iterate that again.|||Try reading Charlie Wilson's War.|||9/11 and the rise of Osama Bin Laden
What implications did this have? Also, do you know of any websites where I can find more information about the United States' involvement and policies during this war?
Thanks.|||Does 9/11 ring any bells. It was a direct result of the Soviet/Afghan war.
Washington, in its infinite wisdom, decided that it needed a local rebel army to fight the Russians because it was scared to get US troops involved in case it turned into another Vietnam (Or even a nuclear war) so it trained and armed the local Islamic resistance groups to fight the Russians by proxy.
These groups eventually became the Taliban and the wider structure around them became Al Quaida.
Both groups were initially pro US, but after the war Washington screwed them over. It was supposed to help them to rebuild their country even better than before and to help them to transform it into an independent Islamic homeland. But Washington just pulled out and left them to starve. This resentment made them turn against the US and open to people like Osama Bin Laden who eventually got them to fly planes into US landmarks.
Funny isn't it? That an army that America built to fight the Soviet and then abandoned became the biggest threat to US lives after the fall of the Soviet Union.|||Poor judgment on the behalf of Charlie Wilson(another Texas Chicken Hawk) secured the replenishment and supply the Jihad militants against the Soviet incursion into Afghanistan caused many problems we have today.Western military adventurism in any "STAN has often
ended in disaster for the West from the British during the reign in India to more recent examples of the Soviet and USA.To suggest that Soviet
incursion caused the collapse of the Soviet is a simple minded level of misinterpretation of what dynamic was involved.|||as this was the time of the cold war, the USA supported afghani
fighters including taliban. now the USA have to carry the
consequences and have inflicted the rest of the world with this
plague.|||Yes, the American involvement in the Soviet caused the breakup of the soviet russia and created the taliban which in turn helped alqaeda which in turn did 9/11 which in turn created about around 4-5 million refugees in pakistan.... :)|||The Russians "departed" Afghanistan after 10 years with nothing achieved, the US should have learned from that.|||The American athletes couldn't go to the Olympics. Among other things, like those mentioned by some of your other Answers.|||proved that the Afghans cant be messed about with with impunity.However, it's going to take a new lesson in bloody noses to re iterate that again.|||Try reading Charlie Wilson's War.|||9/11 and the rise of Osama Bin Laden
What movies have minority civil war soldiers?
I'm doing a project about the memory of the civil war, and i'd like to take a look at minority soldiers specifically. I already know of Glory which is about black soldiers, and Gangs of New York has Irish immigrants, but beyond those two i'm stuck. I'm looking for at least one more with black soldiers and one with German immigrants perhaps. If you have any ideas, please please please help. Thanks!|||All I can come up with is "Sergeant Rutledge"... Not exactly civil war, but about an African American cavalry officer on trial for his life . Good movie. Excellent performances...Check it out to see if works for you...Hope that helps!...|||i think the tuskeegee flyers i cant rememer the name but its about the first black men to fly airplanes
How does the story of war between the Greeks and Trojans still affect us today?
How does the story of war between the Greeks and Trojans,with use of the Trojan horse still affect us today?
I need to write a 200 word essay on this. I don't need it all just other ideas to spark my ideas.|||HAHAHHAHAHAHHAH THIS IS AMW. im in his class too, i looked this up cause i need helpp and his came upp. this is SOOOOO someone from his classs shahahhahaaaaa. htown highscoool, mr gillespies class|||The term Trojan horse is still used to describe computer viruses where the creator of the virus sets it up to look like a legitimate program to get it installed on the victims computer, it's the only virus that in theory Mac and Linux PCs can be infected by.
The term Achilles heel comes from that story as Achilles was an undefeatable warrior, then he was shot through the heel and it proved to be is one fatal weakness.|||wow thats weird i have to do the same exact thing for my english class for mr. gillespie. and thats the same exact question i have on my paper....hm|||look for the moral of the story and connect that moral with a situation during todays times...idr the story that clearly tho..sorry...|||Please do your own homework, For believe it or not you just might learn something interesting............|||Yo i'm in your class, idk who u r, but..ya im doin the journals...(htown)
I need to write a 200 word essay on this. I don't need it all just other ideas to spark my ideas.|||HAHAHHAHAHAHHAH THIS IS AMW. im in his class too, i looked this up cause i need helpp and his came upp. this is SOOOOO someone from his classs shahahhahaaaaa. htown highscoool, mr gillespies class|||The term Trojan horse is still used to describe computer viruses where the creator of the virus sets it up to look like a legitimate program to get it installed on the victims computer, it's the only virus that in theory Mac and Linux PCs can be infected by.
The term Achilles heel comes from that story as Achilles was an undefeatable warrior, then he was shot through the heel and it proved to be is one fatal weakness.|||wow thats weird i have to do the same exact thing for my english class for mr. gillespie. and thats the same exact question i have on my paper....hm|||look for the moral of the story and connect that moral with a situation during todays times...idr the story that clearly tho..sorry...|||Please do your own homework, For believe it or not you just might learn something interesting............|||Yo i'm in your class, idk who u r, but..ya im doin the journals...(htown)
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