Oddball
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The unilaterally imposed "no fly zones" and Iraq sanctions were two of the three rationale that OBL gave for plotting the WTC attack.If these opaquely sarcastic one-liners are your best effort at participating in a serious discussion it would serve your image better to say nothing at all.Dude, lay off the brown acid.I'm talking about the bin Sultan airbase which was positioned in Mecca for the express purpose of facilitating the so-called "Gulf War" by H.W. Bush in 1990. When that base was proposed it caused a furor among Saudi radicals who eventually tolerated it because Bush promised to remove it immediately after Iraq was evicted from Kuwait.
G.W. Bush quietly removed the base shortly after the 9/11 attack. He also pressured Sharon to evict the settlers from Gaza. Those are the reasons why there were no further attacks during his presidency. If he had done those things when the warnings of imminent terrorist activity commenced the 9/11 attack would not have happened.
Clinton's "no-fly" activities served to extend radical Moslem tolerance of the airbase subsequent to the "Gulf War," but when that activity ceased at the end of the Clinton Presidency the terrorist warnings began. And Bush ignored them.
Presuming you are capable of intelligible expression, what is "Dude, lay off the brown acid" supposed to mean? If you disagree with what I wrote, why not at least try to frame an adult response? But if you can't do that, then why embarrass yourself in the eyes of anyone with an IQ above 75?
To approximately paraphrase Nancy Reagan, Just say nothing!
Speaking of saying nothing, you really should STFU on this one...
In the aftermath of Operation Desert Fox in December 1998, Iraq announced it would no longer respect the no-fly zones and resumed its efforts in shooting down Allied aircraft. Saddam Hussein offered a $14,000 reward to anyone who could accomplish this task, but no manned aircraft were ever shot down by Iraq. Air strikes by British and American aircraft against Iraqi claimed anti-aircraft and military targets continued weekly over the next few years. In the early 2000s (decade), the U.S. developed a contingency plan, Operation Desert Badger for dealing with pilots shot down over Iraqi no-fly zones.
The operation continued until it transitioned to Operation Southern Focus in June 2002. They began to carry out offensive sorties, not only against targets that had fired on them, but upon installations that had demonstrated no hostile intent. The U.S. claimed that these increased attacks were the result of increasing Iraqi provocations, but later, in July 2005, the British Ministry of Defense released figures showing that the number of provocations had actually dropped dramatically prior to and just after the increase in allied attacks. Their records indicate that in the first seven months of 2001, there had been 370 provocations on the part of Iraq. In the seven months from Oct. 2001 into May 2002, only 32 such provocations were recorded.[6] General Tommy Franks later acknowledged that the dramatic increase in offensive sorties was an attempt to destroy the Iraqi defenses in much the same way as the air strikes at the beginning of the Gulf War had.[7] The U.S. and British operations had the (apparently intended) effect of reducing Iraqi ability to counter air strikes prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[8])
Iraqi no-fly zones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If there weren't any no-fly zones being enforced, why was Saddam offering rewards for shot down aircraft and why was a contingency plan created to rescue pilots shot down in the no-fly zones?
Oh, and lay off the brown acid.