Posted on 01/03/2007 6:19:30 PM PST by pissant
Yes it is. It can happen easily. I almost got whacked by an M1 Abrahms in the dead of night doing about 45. missed me by about 5 feet
Good one!!
I'm sure it approaches quagmire numbers.
Yes. Mambe we can suggest a Mumia Parkway for Baghdad.
I saw an officer in Afghanistan say that he lost more men to motor vehicle accidents stateside then he did in battle.
The guys are cutting up and celebrating being home. They feel invincible because they've lived through a war zone
Jihadis may be pawns, much as soldiers from WWII were pawns. But you usually have to kill alot of pawns before you get to the King. OBL may still be alive in a cave somewhere, but his butt buddy saddam wasn't so lucky.
Do we have a Patton in the military?
omg...how did it miss you??!!!
I mean thank God it did!
Yikes! That would be a quick death.
L0L when your driving this stuff around in the dead of night with lights out wearing night vision googles with one lens focused on a map and a GPS and the other lens focused on the horizon, sometimes you dont see the tank that comes blasting out of the bushes across the road.
a couple other fellows ran their hummvee into a ravine, it was on its nose. 10 feet away, in that ravine right against the wall was a signal brigade headquarters tent. Several narrowly missed serious injury or death over an accident. Shit happens
Yep, drink like fish, drive fast, chase the wrong women....lotsa hazzards.
Which guy?
Yessir. And the MSM counts those who succumb to disease, Heat and anything else you can think of as KIA
The article's assertion is false. According to the Strategy Page web site, the 2006 Iraqi death toll was 11 times the U.S. murder rate and two-thirds of the American death toll (per capita) in the worst year of World War II, 1944. Go to:
http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/iraq/articles/20070103.aspx
Deport illegals to reduce domestic crime 25%.
Anything to tarnish the job that these men are doing.
He is comparing the Iraq to large cities, not the US as a whole. So his point stands.
I'm with you on that one.
Hear hear. And yet it's a FR favorite. I imagine Rush will be bloviating about this tomorrow for like the fifth time.
US cities vs Iraq the country is like apples and oranges comparison.
How about America the country vs Iraq the country for a more fair evaluation?
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