We knew where he was with his cronies
2007-10-31 07:46:00 · 6 answers · asked by astro 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
OK but don't we have more than one missle ?
2007-10-31 07:53:30 · update #1
Because cruise missiles don't go 2,000 miles an hour.
It takes time to program the target into a cruise missile and then for it to get to it's target.
So you would have to know, where the tearget was gonna be, a couple of hours ahead of time.
We had no way of knowing, just when or where Saddam was gonna show up.
And it's hard to target someone, if you don't know where they are at.
And before you say we have satelites.
We don't have satelites constantly looking at Iraq, physics prevents that.
Plus, satelites, cannot see thru stuff, like car roofs, so they would have no way of knowing if Saddam got inside a car under a covered area and moved.
2007-10-31 08:35:05 · answer #1 · answered by jeeper_peeper321 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would have turned Saddam into an Islamic martyr, stirring up the world against us.
By letting the Iraqis try and hang him, he lost his status as a martyr, and died as the scumbag murdering criminal that he was, abhorred by Muslims and Arabs as well as the western world.
2007-10-31 10:14:42 · answer #2 · answered by Dave_Stark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
during the shock and awe phase of the attack we had a couple dozen targets loaded with civilians that bush and rumsfeld approved for precision bombing that were though to hold saddam or his generals or his sons
not one "high value target" was killed
200 plus civilians were killed instead according to the army''s own figures
its not as easy at it sounds
anyways once we passed our laws to allow attack he went into hiding and was never seen in any one place for more than a short period, remember all the stories of him shuffling from one palace to another?
guess not
anyways its about the oil, not saddam
2007-10-31 07:58:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
When I was four my family was having dinner one sunday at my grandmothers house. I was playing near the stairs and I looked up. There sitting on the top step was a glowing lady staring down at me.I went to grab my mother and when we returned she was gone.
2007-10-31 11:42:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
GREAT QUESTION
The answer is simple.
Iran and Alqueda would have taken over and killed 1,000,000's of people.
In other words killing Sadam was going kill innocent people. So the best way to kill the least amount of people was to do it physically and try to set up a stable government and a possible ally.
2007-10-31 07:51:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
"cause they're heat seekers. Bob H
2007-10-31 07:54:13 · answer #6 · answered by Bob H 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋