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Richard Clarke on Cyberterrorism and Iraq
An anonymous reader writes "Richard Clarke, former counter terrorism advisor to the US National Security Council, has revealed that before invading Iraq, the U.S. government used the Internet to communicate directly with Iraqi soldiers by sending them personalised messages saying, "We're about to invade. We're going to overwhelm you and if you resist us we're going to kill you. But we don't want to do that. So really the best thing for you to do when we invade is to go home." He said the soldiers got the message and most of them went home. Clarke, who many will remember for publicly criticizing the Bush administration, also emphasized the importance of cybersecurity. "Just because it doesn't create a lot of body bags, doesn't mean it's not important. It's vitally important for our economies," Clarke said."
Those Iraqi soldiers probably didn't prefer dying as civilians.
the conservative one (by their own account)
The realistic one because of its methodology
[snip]if you believe how he tells it, he was involved in every national security crisis in the past 30 years and if it wasn't for him, by golly, we'd all be doomed. He almost single-handedly saves the day every time![/snip]
Ok, stop bashing on the guy just because he disagreed with Bush and was asked to leave. I see alot of this, if your not with us, your against us posts about people who disagree with Bush.
I think you'll find that ad hominem attacks are probably one of, if not the, most commonly used responses by the neo-cons. You see it literally every day. The fact that it is in fact considered a logical fallacy doesn't seem to bother them, as I suppose it works.
Well done, Marine. It's always good to hear from the people who were there and not the trolls on Slashdot who accept whatever CNN or the BBC tell them that day.
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Oh, the real reason is so we can steal their oil. And I do mean steal.
[flamebait] you're an idiot [/flamebait]
Who do you think owns Iraqi oil? Try the government and people of Iraq. Who owned it before? Saddam.
There is a very easy way to get oil, and it is called a free market. You pay $50, and you get a barrel of crude.
Actually, the polls show that the majority of Iraqis want the US to stay until the violence stops, most knowing that a sudden pull out would only embolden those who would like to take control, namely Baathist redoubts and those influences from Iran and Syria.
Here is a quick question: if this is all about oil, why didn't the US 'take' Kuwaiti oil in 1991?
Because that's not the way it works. Take a basic economics class for christ's sake.
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