[lit-ideas] Re: Hitchens' Hypothetical Iraq War
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:09:45 -0800 (PST)
Eric,
This is political science fiction, but at least shows
that you have some imagination. As for Hitchens,
couldn't he get a job picking up dirty plates
somewhere, instead of trying to clean up the mess of
the Administration ? All right, the pay might not be
as high, but the work is probably easier, and more
honest too.
O.K.
--- Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A scenario involving something other than,
> "everything will be fine."
>
> Saddam remains in power. His sons continue their
> lifestyles too. The UN Sanctions fade away under
> Saddam's PR campaign, helped by the French,
> Russian, and Chinese interests who are seeking oil
> contracts. The British and US overflights
> continue, but become increasingly dangerous as
> Saddam is eventually able to acquire better
> missile systems. When Sanctions collapse entirely,
> he has $50, $60 per barrel oil money at his
> disposal. He restarts his WMD programs, on a low
> level to avoid reactivation of sanctions, mostly
> the bio- and chem- stuff because his engineers are
> still having trouble mastering the nuclear fuel
> cycle. Saddam's regular killings continue, adding
> one hundred thousand to the three hundred thousand
> already under the sand. He bides his time, acting
> as a small nuisance to the West, increasing his
> contacts with al-Qaeda and other groups, doing
> nothing substantial--let's be conservative
> here--and slowly rearming. Now oil is at $70 a
> barrel and he has restocked his WMD supplies to
> the level UN inspector Anthony Lake discovered in
> the 1990s. The Iraqi engineers get the hang of the
> nuclear fuel cycle and are producing a prototype
> weapon. Bending to international outcries forged
> by the Iraqi PR campaigns, the US and UK cease
> their overflights and hunker down.
>
> Oil is now at $80 a barrel. Iraq's army has
> modernized and his air force has been upgraded
> with the hundreds of billions of dollars in new
> revenues. Saddam drops dead of a heart attack.
> Uday Hussein seizes power, killing his brother in
> a coup that elevates his most trusted associates
> to high position. Uday is not as revenge-driven as
> Saddam, but deeply psychotic, a'la Hitler. His
> trusted associates from the rape-room days tell
> him he should restore Iraqi pride by reoccupying
> Kuwait, only this time he should show his power by
> detonating a nuke at the Saudi border, which if
> anything will render the Gulf War I land force
> route untenable. They convince him. Using his new
> North Korean missile technology, he sends a 500
> kiloton nuclear warhead into Saudi territory south
> of Kuwait to coincide with the Iraqi Army's ground
> assault. This has the unforeseen consequence--to
> Uday and his buddies that is--of prompting an
> Israeli retaliatory nuclear strike against
> Baghdad, leveling the city, but missing Uday and
> his underground command center south of Tikrit.
>
> Vexed by the Zionists' reaction, Uday unleashes a
> series of missiles with antibiotic-resistant
> smallpox payloads into Israeli population centers.
> The US comes to Israel's defense by a series of
> tactical nuclear strikes against all military and
> strategic centers in Iraq.
>
> So far we have seven million dead and the smallpox
> is spreading beyond Israel's borders into Egypt,
> Europe, and the US. Oil is now at $300 a barrel.
> You can imagine the rest of the scenario yourself.
>
>
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