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Hunter lauds tactic to snuff IEDs - Enemies killed while planting the bombs
Washington Times ^
| 9/16/10
| Rowan Scarborogh
Posted on 09/18/2010 1:49:29 PM PDT by pissant
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The literally slaughtered the IED planters in Iraq. They need to do the same in Afghanistan.
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posted on
09/18/2010 1:49:30 PM PDT
by
pissant
To: pissant
Agreed. Anyone seen digging along a road, especially at night, needs an immediate death sentence.
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posted on
09/18/2010 1:51:36 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: pissant
Someone set up them the bomb.
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posted on
09/18/2010 1:51:46 PM PDT
by
humblegunner
(Pablo is very wily)
To: pissant
Sounds like the old ‘a good offense is the best defense.’
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posted on
09/18/2010 1:52:27 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Lurker
This sounds great,but it seems to me we should`nt be advertising everything we`re gonna do
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posted on
09/18/2010 1:58:43 PM PDT
by
Harold Shea
(RVN `70 - `71)
To: pissant
Wasn’t O.D.I.N. the original primary objective?
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posted on
09/18/2010 1:58:59 PM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(3(0|\|0/\/\1($ 101: (4P174L1$/\/\ R3QU1r3$ (4P174L. Could it be any more simple?)
To: Lurker
“Agreed. Anyone seen digging along a road, especially at night, needs an immediate death sentence.”
We could then anticipate a huge number of wedding parties that were preparing for the festivities the next day by “planting flower seeds along the bridal path” for the nuptials.
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posted on
09/18/2010 2:00:30 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
("If anybody believes they can increase taxes today, they're out of their mind." -- Mayor Daley)
To: pissant
gee - and it only took 9 years to figure this out.
Just wow.
Now if they'd figure out how to have a platoon waiting to ambush the Taliban who systematically and with regularity ambush our platoons on their way back to their firebases after a patrol to the villages.
It is a set in stone pattern.
Platoon walks to village.
Taliban now knows the path and time they will be walking back
Taliban set up ambush.
Our troops have suffered the highest KIA and WIA’s due to the PREDICTABLE song and dance.
How about end-running them and setting up an ambush team along the route BEFORE the platoon goes to the village - and then ambush the ambushers?
Wouldn't take long to break that pattern.
Do the powers that be really want success?
To: pissant
Shhh... Don’t tell anybody.
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posted on
09/18/2010 2:03:14 PM PDT
by
LibWhacker
(America awake!)
To: jessduntno
We could then anticipate a huge number of wedding parties that were preparing for the festivities the next day by planting flower seeds along the bridal path for the nuptials. Well the next group of dummies might learn thats a bad idea!
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posted on
09/18/2010 2:07:08 PM PDT
by
politicalmerc
(I can see November from my house; can you?)
To: maine-iac7
Platoon walks to village.
Taliban now knows the path and time they will be walking back
Taliban set up ambush.The Brits ran into this problem during thr Boer War. Afterwards, they always took a different way back. Dunno if the terrain in Afghanistan allows that.
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posted on
09/18/2010 2:09:12 PM PDT
by
Oatka
("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
To: Harold Shea
The WWII warning that “Loose lips sink ships” is true, but perilously ignored by today’s politicians.
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posted on
09/18/2010 2:14:08 PM PDT
by
Paperdoll
(On the cutting edge)
To: pissant
They should start baiting them by using the same routes over and over and focusing all eyes on those routes. Then have QRF’s ready to roll when they take the bait.
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posted on
09/18/2010 2:15:06 PM PDT
by
RC one
(WHAT!!!!)
To: pissant
If they are serious about stopping IED attacks, they will arrest the filthy little sawed off runt heading for meetings at the UN, place him in detention at Gitmo for 444 days, then assign 1 year of additional “service” for every IED attack from that date forward.
The fact that the leader of a nation that is responsible for as many deaths as the USA has endured, is able to freely enter and exit this country is beyond reason. Anyone remember a proclamation that “the war on terror has no borders”?
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posted on
09/18/2010 2:18:33 PM PDT
by
RS_Rider
(I hate Illinois Nazis)
To: politicalmerc
“Well the next group of dummies might learn thats a bad idea!”
You’d think so .. but they keep right on doing it ... the sympathetic press picks it up around the world to make us look like monsters .. in other words, they are taking one for the team.
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posted on
09/18/2010 2:18:33 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
("If anybody believes they can increase taxes today, they're out of their mind." -- Mayor Daley)
To: pissant
The Pentagon has spent nearly $20 billion in a concerted effort since 2004 to blunt IEDsThat's hard to believe. Even with government accounting methods.
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posted on
09/18/2010 2:21:30 PM PDT
by
Glenn
(iamtheresistance.org)
To: jessduntno
"We could then anticipate a huge number of wedding parties that were preparing for the festivities the next day by planting flower seeds along the bridal path for the nuptials."
Not to mention nightly news reporting from the MSM about "collateral damage to ONE OF ISLAM'S HOLIEST SITES!!" Seems you can't swing a dead cat without hitting one of those.
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posted on
09/18/2010 2:21:58 PM PDT
by
PowderMonkey
(Will work for ammo)
To: Oatka
No, it doesn't. That's the problem - particularly in the Kunar up in north eastern Afghanistan...where 80% of the fighting in the country has taken place.
Added to that, it is right on the border with Pakistan - making it way to easy for the Taliban to ooze across the border, down through the mountain passes, hit our guys, and melt back into Pakistan.
That scenario could have been stopped had we the honest help from the Paki’s on their side....and had we insisted on it.
To: Lurker
Not under “commander zero’s” ROE.
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posted on
09/18/2010 2:23:27 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
To: PowderMonkey
“Seems you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one of those.”
Unless of course you are a moose limb.
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posted on
09/18/2010 2:27:52 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
("If anybody believes they can increase taxes today, they're out of their mind." -- Mayor Daley)
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