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7. So, if we arm them to overthrow the regime, what do we give that they don't already have? ICBMs?

Sat Jun 1, 2013, 02:26 PM

Jun 2013

What do you give the well-armed Sunni freedom fighter who already has everything?

Surplus Minuteman IIIs? B-52s? Aging Trident submarines?

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Iraq uncovers al-Qaeda 'chemical weapons plot' [View all] Bosonic Jun 2013 OP

Curiouser and curiouser... Comrade Grumpy Jun 2013 #1

Such a stretch! SkyDaddy7 Jun 2013 #15

Yeah, like sucking the West into intervening under false pretenses. Comrade Grumpy Jun 2013 #16

False pretenses? SkyDaddy7 Jun 2013 #17

Just one point SCVDem Jun 2013 #3

Good! I'm glad they were caught. Pterodactyl Jun 2013 #4

Not the first time this has happened. Lasher Jun 2013 #5

So the irony (if true) is jimlup Jun 2013 #6

maybe Im sensitive to these reports because I was in iraq in 2003 pasto76 Jun 2013 #8

I don't think you understand the Geo/Religous Politics of the region Bosonic Jun 2013 #10

I don't think so. John2 Jun 2013 #12

Is Al Q still going strong? Rosa Luxemburg Jun 2013 #13