Posted on 08/20/2008 5:30:26 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
Gaawwwwd!
And to think we have been getting reports that we gave the Georgian army old equipment and vintage LAW’s and Redeyes.
I cannot believe this s***t! We should at least be sending them our latest Stingers and Javelins. We did it for the frickin’ Mujahedeen in the eighties.
Instead we trot out Condi to shake her finger and engage in “diplomacy.”
Ronaldus Magnus must be spinning.
Prayers for Georgia!
Russian scum.
Don’t worry; they’ll get the latest stuff now. However, don’t despise the LAW; it can take out a PT-76 and a BMP, and that’s most of what Russia is using.
I hate to bust your bubble but in my dog-eared copy of Robert Pisor’s 1982 classic “The End of the Line: The Siege of Khe Sanh” in the part about the infamous NVA assault on the Lang Vei Special Forces camp there is the passage on page 171:
“Colonel Schungel knelt in the middle of the camp, with green tracers from enemy machine guns criss-crossing the ground in front of him, and wildly-swinging parachute flares overhead [a lighting effect spookily captured in the movie “Platoon”, to give credit where credit is due], and fired a LAW at the lead tank. The shell hit in a great shower of orange sparks, but the tank kept rolling. He moved closer with another LAW, but this time the disposable launcher refused to fire. Now he was close enough to roll hand grenades into the tank’s treads, and to fire his rifle into the eyeslits. The tank kept rolling. Another team hit one North Vietnamese tank nine times with the shoulder-fired LAW rockets, and the tank kept rolling.”
The LAW couldn’t do the job during its supposed heyday on a tank so lightly armored it could float.
I don’t actually know if that’s what we supplied the Georgians with, and I have not actually seen the photographs of dead Georgian soldiers wearing and holding outdated U.S. gear that the article referred to but, if true, this smacks of utter pusillanimity on the part of GWB.
Again, Pooty is an enemy refreshingly familiar to us westerners. his nuclear chest-thumping is obvious twaddle. He’s an old-fashioned crook, he does not want to get blowed up real good. He wants wealth, power, prestige, and time to plow his recently acquired 24 year-old gymnast 2nd wife.
KGB thug turned puppet master Putin seems to want to return to a lot of old Russia. He sure has shut down domestic freedom and is becoming much more aggressive in foreign policy. Thankfully our President must have seen this coming when he looked into Putin’s soul.
Those Cossack "peacekeepers" again.
You got it , LAW, Light anti tank weapon. Even though the sheridan was light armor it used false shielding to help detonate API before reaching the hull. A heavy armor tank with auxilary armor packed on top takes one hell of a shell to stop.
Alas, he made mistakes too.
Recent campaign commentaries have reminded us that Ronaldus Magnus’ decision to send the Marines to Beirut, in inadequate numbers, with an undefined mission (ostensibly to bail out the Palestinians—early CNN effect) that McCain voted against, was an easily forseeable disaster.
Well, nobodys perfect, cept Obama!
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What has prevented the Russians from taking Tbilisi?? Is there a line in the sand and who drew it?
“The Russians said this to him?” I said.
“My husband said he was going to see his family,” she said. “And the Russians said again, ‘Are you going to the American side?’”
“So the Russians view you as the American side, even though there are no Americans here.”
“Yes,” she said. “Because our way is for democracy.”
It is really going to be a bad thing if we abandon them. It is obvious that it isn't really Georgia the Russians are attacking in spirit.
Primarily the two river gorges their tanks have too drive through to get into the town from the northwest. They could approach from the southeast and southern direction rather easily, but that movement would be spotted. The main factor that stopped them probably was the 5 Presidents from Eastern Europe. Russia was not quite ready for war there at this time. Perhaps they will be in a month or two. Since Russia could not finish their initial end game, they have been stalled and are playing a middle game. Using the Free Georgians in Tbilisi as hostages. IMHO. Unfortunately, they could tire of the middle game and finish the way they wanted to finish anytime now. The west seems to only have pawns on the board at present.
That is pawns in the literary sense, not the chess sense.
Primarily the two river gorges their tanks have too drive through to get into the town from the northwest.
There is a paved road from the northwest that comes right into Tbilisi.
The main factor that stopped them probably was the 5 Presidents from Eastern Europe.
The five Presidents have come and gone.
Russia was not quite ready for war there at this time.
I believe Russia does have the troop strength and the equipment to drive into town and take Saakasvili.
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