Nyalas/RG-31's can be taken out by big enough VBIEDS.
Don't blame the G-Wagon. The troops like them, and they fit down alleys HMMWV's and RG-31's won't.
Posted on 01/15/2006 1:42:20 PM PST by Clive
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Car bombs come to Kandahar. Zarqawi MO.
No ...I think it has to do with that Khadr kid...
I don't follow.
The Khadr kid is in Canada on trial I think..... and his sister just returned for the region and had a laptop with all kinds of AQ goodies on its hard drive...the Canadian government has seized said laptop...so I think this was a message to the Canadian gov. from the Khadr family AQ and Taliban friends.
Many grateful thanks for his service. May his family be comforted. I am thankful for a true friends sacrifice.
OK. But I was refering more to the tactics employed, which was a major part of the story. I'm not saying that Zarqawi was directly behind this, but that his influence is being felt more strongly in the Afghan theater in terms of tactics.
It's too bad this happened. At least with regard to Afghanistan, Canada has been reliable.
I agree..
Nyalas/RG-31's can be taken out by big enough VBIEDS.
Don't blame the G-Wagon. The troops like them, and they fit down alleys HMMWV's and RG-31's won't.
Extra Territorital Elements have been coming in from Iraq for several months now, to share lessons learned and pass on IED-building tips. Most suicide bombers are ETE's. Pashtuns don't really buy the 72 virgins BS.
This attack was planned to put the liberals in power again. They know martin and the liberals want lower military funding. Harper wants much more spending for the military. Martin talks out of two sides of his mouth going after harper as a warmonger while there are troops in harms way. Martin talks about how canadians are in peace efforts in a war zone. Martin's govt just deported to send free a known al quida terrorist that the u.s wanted.
Paul Martin is a disaster in the war on terrorism and now the terrorists are rewarded by this anti u.s left wing nut staying in power.
This attack coming right before the election shows the taliban want martin to win. Martin is very bad for the coalition always going after Bush. Martin plays right into their hands going after israel at the un too. Martin is the number one bush basher out there of course they want martin to win. They called the AP saying this will continue. This attack will show martin as pm for the next week attending the funeral and giving him stature of imcumbency that the opposition doesn't have.
I am now resigned to the liberals never being out of power. Paul Martin reminds me so much of clinton with his fakeness it is scary.
Agreed.
And good riddance to the Iltis. After sad experience with them patrolling from Kabul, the Canadian Forces did not think them to be even worth bringing them home and transferring them to the Crown Assets Disposal Corporation, so they are being left in Afghanistan for whatever use the Afghans may wish to make of them.
Canada hasn't been reliable on anything. Paul Martin is ten times worse than chirac. His govt just sent loose a terrorist that in 2000 was planning to blow up LAX.
He is always playing the anti american fear card. How america is such a warmonger. He bashed harper for supporting the iraq war when that lying fraud martin supported it at the begginning too.
Martin had an ad saying harper would military in the streets.
Harper wanted to increase the military funding and increase the effort in afganistan.
Martin's govt is always voting against israel at the un. After the top hamas leader was killed martin's foreign minister said how wrong isreal was.
I hope Bush never ever returns one more call from that lying martin again. Martin has bashed bush unbelievably. Martin can't be allowed to use bush the way he has in this election and not have to pay the cost. No more relations with a martin govt.
U.S should have sent the ambassador home. Martin has some never attacking a friendly neighbor like us. We were attacked on 9/11 and that piece of garbage attacks our country. U.S has never gone after canada in an election. So in return we get spit on by Martin. We are their number one trade partner and they get to be protected by the number 1 superpower and in return we get bashed by martin.
After Martin wins Bush has to play hardball. He can't get away with using us like that. Send the ambassador home and punish the govt. No more trash in michigan. No more beef. More softwood fines. No more cooperation in the war on terror for sending that al queda terrorist overseas to be freed that the u.s wanted in custody for planning to bomb us in 2000 in lax.
Just as Clinton did to the US military, Martin cut back Canada's military to the bare bones. They weren't even able to muster the airpower to protect their own troops in Afghanistan. The bad, evil US has to do it for them.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=420aa1ba-bde0-4f0c-a369-080d17073b6b&k=67952&p=2
Most Americans don't know it, but the CF and the US Armed Forces have worked closely together for decades. They were in Germany with us 20 years ago. They've been with us in OEF from the beginning. A very large proportion of their Navy has been in the Indian Ocean since OEF started. Yes, their military is small and underfunded, but what there are of them are good folks.
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