[Maedhros]

don't know

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Peter Jennings WORKS FOR THE ENEMY. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT HIM TO SAY?

[Spruce]

Total Absolute BS!

[zarf]

Me thinks you folks need to get some air. Go to the mall or pop in a DVD.

[Diogenesis]

ABC and its sponsors are enemies of the US
through Peter Jennings, who is always eager to defend Islamic terrorists,
always eager to give away factoids of US weapons' limitations during battle
or the position of US forces to their enemies.

HEY, PETER JENNINGS, WHAT DID YOU SAY
HOW MANY AMERICAN PATRIOTS HAVE YOU KILLED TODAY?

[demlosers]

Hahahaahah... I'm a former ammo troop, we've got more ammo than there are fish in the sea.

[Balata]

Peter Jennings is Anti-American!

[x1stcav]

Overall, the level of contact probably isn't as high as command made provision for. I'm surprised they haven't run out of fuel considering the blistering pace.

Jennings, with his extensive military experience, may know something the rest of us don't.

[Trust but Verify]

It wouldn't surprise me if the supply lines were hosed and we were expending ordnance at a faster pace than it could be re-supplied at. OTOH, if that is the case and someone is supllying the press with the info and the press is reporting it, it's inexcusable!

[ghostrider]

I know nothing about the supply of ammunition, but I have observed President Bush, and I have observed Peter "the Canadian" Jennings. My money is on the President. I will give Peter 10 to one odds.

[Republican Wildcat]

Jennings is a liar. They also just had a report editorializing that U.S. troops were barely able to handle that skirmish at Umm Qasr and that was leaving many with questions about how we could possibly deal with Baghdad. There's no comparison, of course, because we are obviously expecting attacks at Baghdad and this was a complete surprise--and nonetheless, a complete success with no casualties on our side.

Jennings also surmised how those women that were tortured shouldn't really be praising the U.S. for helping the Iraqi people, saying that sanctions by the U.S. were causing them harm. These were, of course, UN imposed sanctions, and, Saddam was allowed to sell as much oil as needed for food and medicine and used the money for his own bank account, palaces, and probably military buildup instead. Jennings is a disgrace.

[Common Tator]

I was in the army in the late 50's and early 60's. We were still using ammo made 20 years before I was born. The army was, believe it or not, using ammo made for use during WWI. Lots of ammo I fired was dated 1918, 1919.

America has huge stores of mortar, artillery, machine gun and rifle rounds. We haven't used up all the stuff made for the VietNam war yet and we keep making more.

It is true we were about out of Smart Bombs and Cruse Missiles when Dubya took office. But after 9/11 Bush got huge appropriations to make a huge stock of new smart bombs.

The bombs used in Gulf War One and Kosovo were all made during the Reagan Administration. They were about all gone after Clinton used them but did not replace them. But we have been making new updated ones ever since Dubya took office. We have also converted 10's of thousands of old 1 and 2 thousand pound dumb bombs to 1 and 2 thousand pound smart bombs.

Jennings does not have a clue. We had a rush program to make Smart Bombs ever since Dubya took office. I suspect we have 30 or 40 times as many as we had in Gulf War I.

It has been said many times that Dubya allows his generals to both plan and run the war. Generals know that if they win the war, no one ever trashes them for having too many weapons and too much ammunition. So Generals always figure all they could use and then request 20 times that much.

That is why the Army still has lots of rounds of ammo dated 1943.

[Enterprise]

Jennings doesn't know what he is talking aboot.

[Consort]

Sell your sister to Barbra Streisand.

[Milwaukee_Guy]

I saw the Jennings report on the evening news. Showed the battle where the Marines were lobbing the Javelin anti-tank rounds at the Iraqi's.

Jennings showed a segment where a guy was on the radio calling for an ammo resupply. He commented briefly in his usual uninformed manner which left the impression there were ammo problems.

IMHO - During a four hour firefight I think it is pretty common to call for more ammo. I never served in the military but the Marines fire dicipline seemed very good considering they had flushed out 150 bad guys and were making every attempt to expedite their visit with Allah.

Probably the most compelling video aired so far of a live fire fight. Was originally aired early this morning on MSNBC. Saw about a half hour of it on our local NBC affiliate.