HueyLong
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REASON, v.t. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.
"If Israel attacks any Arab country ... we have the means to burn half of Israel."- Saddam Hussein, President and Prime Minister of Iraq
"If Saddam Hussein chooses to use weapons of mass destruction, then the rules of this campaign will probably change."- General Schwarzkopf
"Iraq, after the first use of a missile, won't be the same Iraq any more."- Eliyahu Ben Elissar, Chair of the Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee
"Whoever will dare to attack us will be attacked seven times more."- Yitzak Shamir, Israeli Prime Minister
"You'd have to consider, if chemical weapons were used against us, precisely what our reply should be."- Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the UK
"The use of chemical weapons would provoke a response that would completely destroy that country."- Douglas Hurd, Defense Secretary of the UK
"There's enough ambiguity in our deployments of nuclear weapons at sea and our ability to deliver nuclear weapons by air and quickly move them into the region to plant the seeds of doubt in Hussein's mind."- Dick Cheney, United States Defense Secretary [1]
1991
Wednesday Jan 16
"We will not fail."- George H.W. Bush, President of the United States
Desert Storm began at 7 PM EST.
"The great duel, the mother of all battles has begun. The dawn of victory nears as this great showdown begins!"- Saddam Hussein, President and Prime Minister of Iraq
Thursday Jan 17
Two Iraqi SCUD missiles struck Tel Aviv, Israel. Loaded with Sarin gas, a powerful nerve agent, the missiles caused more than 1000 reported casualties in the first day...... [2]
The Israeli government made an agreement with the US government not to retaliate. But it was not clear how long such an agreement would last.
The US Government ordered the deployment of three Patriot missile crews to Israel.
[1]All quotes are OTL, excepting the last from Cheney, which is an amalgamation of his and others' statements.
[2] Iraqi's inventory in 1991 included 30 chemical warheads. In 1989, they had demonstrated domestically produced clusterbomb munitions, which are ideal for chemical agent distribution. The 1,000 death count comes from their saturation of a much smaller city over two days yielding 5,000 casualties. They hit Tel Aviv a few days earlier than IOTL, hoping a bit harder to goad Israel to war
Thoughts? Comments? Speculation? And yes, I am openly copying Blochead's style.
"If Israel attacks any Arab country ... we have the means to burn half of Israel."- Saddam Hussein, President and Prime Minister of Iraq
"If Saddam Hussein chooses to use weapons of mass destruction, then the rules of this campaign will probably change."- General Schwarzkopf
"Iraq, after the first use of a missile, won't be the same Iraq any more."- Eliyahu Ben Elissar, Chair of the Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee
"Whoever will dare to attack us will be attacked seven times more."- Yitzak Shamir, Israeli Prime Minister
"You'd have to consider, if chemical weapons were used against us, precisely what our reply should be."- Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the UK
"The use of chemical weapons would provoke a response that would completely destroy that country."- Douglas Hurd, Defense Secretary of the UK
"There's enough ambiguity in our deployments of nuclear weapons at sea and our ability to deliver nuclear weapons by air and quickly move them into the region to plant the seeds of doubt in Hussein's mind."- Dick Cheney, United States Defense Secretary [1]
1991
Wednesday Jan 16
"We will not fail."- George H.W. Bush, President of the United States
Desert Storm began at 7 PM EST.
"The great duel, the mother of all battles has begun. The dawn of victory nears as this great showdown begins!"- Saddam Hussein, President and Prime Minister of Iraq
Thursday Jan 17
Two Iraqi SCUD missiles struck Tel Aviv, Israel. Loaded with Sarin gas, a powerful nerve agent, the missiles caused more than 1000 reported casualties in the first day...... [2]
The Israeli government made an agreement with the US government not to retaliate. But it was not clear how long such an agreement would last.
The US Government ordered the deployment of three Patriot missile crews to Israel.
[1]All quotes are OTL, excepting the last from Cheney, which is an amalgamation of his and others' statements.
[2] Iraqi's inventory in 1991 included 30 chemical warheads. In 1989, they had demonstrated domestically produced clusterbomb munitions, which are ideal for chemical agent distribution. The 1,000 death count comes from their saturation of a much smaller city over two days yielding 5,000 casualties. They hit Tel Aviv a few days earlier than IOTL, hoping a bit harder to goad Israel to war
Thoughts? Comments? Speculation? And yes, I am openly copying Blochead's style.
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