From: Nigel Hay MILWEB \(www.milweb.net\) (Nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2003 - 23:58:12 PDT
Maybe they just got behind with the payments and were hiding them from the
finance company?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Grammont" <islander@midmaine.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 4:24 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] MV's at work....
> Uhm...
>
> >If you believe that any "Evil Empire" think tank actually planned and
> >performed the alleged burial of multiple MIGs, with the intent of
exhuming
> >and refurbishing them for future combat, I've got a bridge to sell you.
>
> Where is it and how much? :-)
>
> So you are saying these are "plants" in order to support the theory that
> there really are WMD in Iraq? Gee... wouldn't it have been easier to
> simply planted WMD to prove there really were WMD? We've had a couple of
> months to really fake something extra specially good. I guess this is
> the best you think American covert ops can come up with?
>
> Iraqi leadership knew the airforce would never survive another war, so
> they had three choices... let them sit out in the open, fly them to Iran,
> or bury them. They tried the first two last time and they didn't work
> out so well (Iran still has all the ones flown to them IIRC). So that
> leaves option number three.
>
> And before we (the US) found these planes, guess what I heard on the
> radio? An interview with an Iraqi general who said... wait for it...
> that they burried what was left of their airforce so it wouldn't be
> destroyed. But that was an NPR reporter on NPR, which as everybody knows
> is in Bush's hip pocket. Guess that is a fake too.
>
> The Iraqis did in fact bury the planes, parts, and even support vehicles.
> DURING the war Australian SAS men were the first to discover this. I
> can dig up an old article on this and cite the date if you like. I
> suppose the Aussies could have planeted them sometime during the night,
> using personal entrenching tools, but gee... that seems to be a lot of
> work just to make Bush and Rummy look good 6 half a year later when under
> fire.
>
> > What
> >is the problem with a sovereign country owning and openly storing
fighters?
>
> None. However, these were dismantled and burried. That isn't a problem
> either in terms of international law, but it demonstrates how hard it is
> to find things that are burried in a desert. Even very large things.
> That was Rummy's point, and believe in WMD or not... it is a VERY valid
> point.
>
> >It is quite aways from that to (scary music goes here) "Weapons of Mass
> >Destruction" It's just another Bushy-Rummy scam. Flame away, patriots.
>
> I don't think there are functional WMD to find in Iraq. At least not at
> all like the story we were told prior to the war. I think it was a
> Bush/Blair (et all) scam or, at best, a terrifically inflated tidbit of
> reality. But those are real planes burried by real Iraqis. Of that I am
> sure.
>
> Steve
>
>
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