IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)

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Post by cantbecool » Sat, Jul 05, 2014, 2:22 AM UTC

IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)
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Re: IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)

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Post by cmdrfred » Sat, Jul 05, 2014, 2:51 AM UTC

THE LIBERATION OF KUAIT HAS BEGUN WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The liberation of Kuwait has begun. Mr Fritzwalter: the liberation of Kuwait has begun WAR HAS STARTED!!!! WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)

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Post by keehun » Sat, Jul 05, 2014, 2:53 AM UTC

cmdrfred wrote: post #2

THE LIBERATION OF KUAIT HAS BEGUN WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The liberation of Kuwait has begun. Mr Fritzwalter: the liberation of Kuwait has begun WAR HAS STARTED!!!! WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   Announcement from the president of US: The
  liberation of Kuwait has begun

   i'm listening to nbc radio....

   "Desert Storm"

Re: IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)

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Post by sheetjs » Sat, Jul 05, 2014, 2:55 AM UTC

    #Belladona# Bagdad Radio reports Saddam has ordered his 
       troops out of Kuwait IMMEDIATELY!
    #Scott# unconfirmed, keep it to +war/+report
    #alex# belladona - stop making rumors ....

Re: IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)

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Post by rdl » Sat, Jul 05, 2014, 3:51 AM UTC

I wonder if the IRC logs from the Iraq War (round 2) will ever be declassified and released. IRC is used pretty extensively by the military for communications (generally just called "mIRC", since people associate it so strongly with the official military client), and there were a bunch of different channels on different networks to discuss operations in realtime.

http://publicintelligence.net/tactical-chat/

Re: IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)

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Post by msutherl » Sat, Jul 05, 2014, 4:02 AM UTC

I dont think bagdahd is on the net =]

No arab countrys on the net..

Re: IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)

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Post by melloclello » Sat, Jul 05, 2014, 4:05 AM UTC

Archived SomethingAwful thread from 9/11/2001:

http://www.truegamer.net/SA_911/911%20SATHREAD/

http://www.truegamer.net/SA_911/911%20SATHREAD/wtc01.html

> WATCH BUSH START A FUCKING WAR

Re: IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)

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Post by ilaksh » Sat, Jul 05, 2014, 4:08 AM UTC

I'd like to see IRC logs from other countries at the same time.

As well as a map of all of the invasions and "liberations" with a timeline, and a list of official "reasons" for those military actions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil...

Hmm. I wonder what the IRC logs of the Venezuelan "liberation" will look like? Actually for Venezuelan's sake hopefully the economic warfare already going on, along with the encroachment coming from the direction of Brazil during World Cup, will be enough to "integrate" them into the system (i.e. "liberate" them of control over their resources) without requiring overt military action.

Re: IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)

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Post by Houshalter » Sat, Jul 05, 2014, 4:08 AM UTC

This is surprisingly interesting. I just picked a random log and found this:

    test to see if infoserver is echoing 
   messages to group +war.  well all this info is probably old.
     The iraqis caused an oil spill 8-10 miles long and a 
   couple miles wide.  It's 12 times the size of that caused 
   by the exxon valdeez.  It's not known if wells are actively 
   pumping into the gulf right now, or if they just dumped 
   stored reserves.  If they're pumping at max capacity, it'll 
   get bigger by a factor every 3 days.  in other words it 
   will be 13 times the size of the exxon valdeez in 3 days, 
   14 in 6, 15 in 9.  (I realize I said that wrong).  That's a 
   worst case.  It's not possible to overstate how concerned 
   Bush seemed by this.  I think he aged a few years last 
   night.  the spill is not military significant, but 
   ecologically its a nightmare of course.  There is some 
   concern about water problems, the oil might threaten 
   desalination plants.  Yesterday the weather was much better 
   over iraq, so they set a record for the # of sorties in a 
   single day.  2700 I think.  they launched 2 missiles at 
   saudi arabia today, and 7 at israel.  (scuds).  One hit in 
   israel, lightly wounding a bunch of people, killing 1.  1 
   person died in saudi.  Patriots knocked out a whole bunch 
   of them.  I just heard from Cheneys mouth that Bush has 
   something planned to deal with the oil spill.  --mcneil 
   lehrer

Re: IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)

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Post by TeMPOraL » Sat, Jul 05, 2014, 4:08 AM UTC

melloclello wrote: post #7

Archived SomethingAwful thread from 9/11/2001: http://www.truegamer.net/SA_911/911%20SATHREAD/ http://www.truegamer.net/SA_911/911%20SATHREAD/wtc01.html > WATCH BUSH START A FUCKING WAR

From the thread:

> Now this is weird, since last week was the first showing of that X-files spin-off "The Lone Gunmen" in Austalia. The plot of the first one was that some government group was going to fly a plane into the World Trade Centre. Life imitates art?

Eee... WHAT? I always read that WTC was the kind of event that no one ever imagined it could possibly happen until after the incident.