This gives a better idea of what the roads look like...
Posted on 05/13/2007 5:18:54 AM PDT by jern
Edited on 05/13/2007 9:40:51 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
This is what you get when your strategy is to not hurt anybody and then put your soldiers out in the field as practice targets for the enemy.
bingo. That's why I cringe when I see these assinine comments about nuking terrorists. You have to use the right tool for the job. And it ain't nukes. It's intelligence, special forces and a whole lot of time.
Exactly, which is why the targets for the bombing should be in Syria and Iran, with only a few in Iraq itself. It would be a modified strategic bombing campaign, very much like the bombing campaign that preceded the 100 hour war in Desert Storm. There wouldn't be a bridge still standing in either country. Anti aircraft sites would be rubble, and Iran's nuke/chem/bio facilities would, at minimum, be sealed into their underground bunkers, with no way out. (Might have to play "whack a mole" for awhile to ensure that).
We should have conquered Saudi Arabia on September 12, 2001, executed the Whahabbis, and turned their country into a giant oil spigot. Anybody who complains about it (Iran, Syria, Iraq, etc.) gets 24x7 fuel-air bombardment.
I’ve heard we have 15 in the inventory. Could be wrong. We have plenty of other ordnance in the inventory, so my point remains. We should be surging with bombs, lots and lots of bombs, not with infantry on foot patrol.
Ultimately what happens in Iraq is up to the Iraqis—whether they side with or against the terrorists, or whether they think settling ancient scores and stealing everything they can get their hands on is more important than establishing a workable government. All up to the Iraqis, and so far I’m not impressed. Sunnis fight Shias, millions in oil revenue has gone missing, and the Iraqi government wants to take a two month holiday this summer in the middle of a war for the control of their civilization.
We can want democracy and peace for Iraq all day long, but the Iraqis have to want it or we’re just spinning our wheels. So far it appears that many do, but not enough. In the meantime we lack the will to act decisively, so it’s the death of a thousand cuts for us. And that is squarely on the politicians, who are worried about their legacies and the next election, and the commanders at the top, who are worried about their legacies and their next promotion. Shame on all of them.
You don't know how long it took to get the UAV on scene, find the burning vehicles and for orders to the QRF to be issued.
I do recall reading that no communications from the patrol were received, so it's not like they called for the QRF.
Keep telling yourself that Ron.
I just watched the video of the command statement. In the part not quoted in the article, it indicated that the UAV did not find the burning vehicles until 15 minutes after the explosion. Now it’s only 41 minutes from then until the QRF was on the site. How long from the time the UAV operators saw the vehicles until the word got to the QRF to go? I have no basis for estimation.
War crime? Illegal treatment of captured US soldiers?
The Left NEVER speaks of their beloved “insurgents” in this manner. They just tell us that 3,700 have died in “iraq” (actually kuwait, germany, and elsewhere of non-combat injuries to arrive at that figure).
Then it is just a matter of locating where the patrol is and then the QRF comes to the rescue?
We had UAVs over the scene within 10/15 minutes is also being reported. A QRF taking an hour to reach an incident only makes sense in Stan....Not Iraq. If the hour time frame turns out to be true....this QRF was a goatfk.
TANKS a Bunch,,,Tuff Times for All...
I will post whatever I can find here,,,still lookin’ at/for maps/sat-pics of that area,,,they can’t be too far
from the spot I marked on the map up-thread(JMO),,,
4,000 “Mother’s Sons” are on a “Search And Destroy” to
find their “Brothers”...
Not sure but I dont think your post should have been addressed to me.
“Patton was right...”
And so was MacArthur.... and Schwartzkopf
And there are a couple other generals whose names I can’t remember who were fired for voicing their belief in WINNING rather than all this political pussy-footing.
The top ten origins of the foreign terrorists are:
Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Sudan, Tunisia and Yemen.
Anyone know what our State Dept is doing to force these countries to curtail these lunatics?
“If we fought WWII with the Nazi’s knowing that they could attack and retreat to their homes under the cover of women and children, we would have lost that war.”
Enough already with the “tough love” approach.
We need to stop thinking of Muslms as the “religion of peace” and start thinking of them as an evil ideology every bit as evil as Nazism or Leninist-marxism.
This gives a better idea of what the roads look like...
“Enough already with the “tough love” approach.
We need to stop thinking of Muslms as the “religion of peace” and start thinking of them as an evil ideology every bit as evil as Nazism or Leninist-marxism.”
Where’re we gonna get our oil from?
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