From: "John Foster" <borealis-AT-mercuryspeed.com>
Subject: Re: Shock'N'Awe
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:53:41 -0800


Please Bob, take the flag from out of your mouth for a
minute. GPS is accurate sometimes to within 3 meters, but it
can also be as inaccurate as 100 meters. There are a lot of
factors which impact on GPS performance especially near
large buildings with metal roofs, radio transmissions,
atmospheric conditions, et cetera.

I have the best commercial version there is. A Trimble
GeoExplorer (costly too) and it does not work well in cities
were there are radio transmissions. It does not work too
well during cold fronts, etc. There huge cross winds, and
other factors which impact performance of missiles. The
B52's fly at an elevation of up to 60,000 feet. That means
that cruise missiles which are guided by GPS have a lot of
interference. Look at how many dead RAF pilots have been
killed so far, 16. Two Chinooks, a Tornado.

Nice try at deception....War as invisioned by the US is a
matter of 'totalizing efficiency' and mass destruction of
innocent civilians. It will cost billions of dollars.

Ari says that "this is not the first time that the US has
become involved in a prolonged war". Also it is now proven
that this will not be a "quick surgical strike."

The US miscalculated one thing, and that is wide spread
distrust of the Americans within all sectors of the Iraqi
society. This is a 'battle' against Islam. Not necessarily
Saddam Hussein and the ruling Bath Party. This supplemental
funding is additional to the existing $300 billion being
spent on the military.

jf







Subject: Re: Shock'N'Awe



In a message dated 03/24/03 12:40:30 PM,
borealis-AT-mercuryspeed.com writes:

<< In Baghdad because of

the saturation bombing by B52's  >>

oh PUHLEEZE!!  get the facts straight!  the bombing of
baghdad has been
hi-tech and precise.  there haven't even been b-52 raids
over baghdad, much
less saturation bombing (do you know what that is?).  the
b-52 raids have
released cruise missiles from the 700 mile range.  and they
are gps guided to
within 3 meters of the target.  what they have been hitting
is government
buildings on the west side of the river.  watch the cnn live
tape.  you can
see this.  read a map and you will discover that quarter of
the city doesn't
have residential quarters.

i promise you if there had been saturation bombing by
b-52's, the civilian
losses would be on the order of tens of thousands.  even the
iraqis with
their strained sense of truth don't claim this.

bob


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