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To: TopQuark
Why couldn't they cover the rear with a couplr of helicopters, say? Or a tank?

According to reports, that is precicely what they are doing.

They also have quick response marines on standby 24/7 and positioned at intervals.

30 posted on 03/29/2003 10:32:09 PM PST by Cold Heat (Negotiate!! Blam! "Now who else wants to negotiate?")
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To: wirestripper
Sorry, I do not buy it: no pne can drag a soldier out of a truck when a tank is shooting twenty yards behind.

And, no response of of stand-by marines can save from a machine-guns fired from a second floor. Those thugs would not dare if they saw sufficent protection. Forces on stanby are good for the extrication of those already ander attack in an open field --- even in the jungle, where you might hover a helicopter, perhaps under fire from below. You cannot extricate someone from gragged into an unseen apartment in a myriad of tiny, narrow streets. Especially if you are given orders not to have a single civilian casualy. Prevention rather than correction of a problem is therefore a solution. We did not follow it.

33 posted on 03/30/2003 7:14:41 AM PST by TopQuark
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