Iraqis watch Black Hawk Down for tips

Canada.com ^ | Monday, March 31, 2003 | Heather Sokoloff

[goldstategop]

I'm glad they're watching Black Hawk Down. They think President Bush is a Bill Clinton clone. They'll find out soon enough why Iraq isn't Somalia.

[discipler]

Watching Black Hawk Down might have helped if their was a jackass in the White House, but now that we have a real man in there, it's just a sad story and no help to them.

[KeyWest]

Amen. We are learning as we go along and changing out tactics to reflect reality.

Saddam is stuck with a VCR on continuous loop.

[Tijeras_Slim]

The only lesson they'll learn is that when you go up against the US, even under "favorable" circumstances the casualty ratio is a bitc#!

[nevergore]

Beside the obvious military reasons why a "Black Hawk Down" scenario wouldn't apply...

We lost 18 men in that battle and the body count for the Somolians was estimated at 1500.....

Would this be a battle plan you would like to emulate?....

Geeez....Saddam must have gone to the stupid dictator school of military planning.....

NeverGore

[Poohbah]

OK, Iraq's war plan:

1. Get a feckless coward elected as President of the United States.

Oh, darn! Forgot to do step one!

[Ga Rob]

Clinton would not give the Rangers/Delta Operators the support they needed. Like everything else he did, hal assed. Sadaamm needs to figure out one thing...when a squad is pinned down against his thugs, there will be a Spectre or an F15 to call in on the target, and on and on and on.

[BSunday]

the Iraqi president is using the Oscar-winning movie

Impossible. He's dead.

[smith288]

Mogadishu was pre 9-11. In this post 9-11 world, Blackhawk Down is a million years ago in relation to our country now.

They are watching the wrong movie, they should watch Patton and be very scared.

[Kozak]

I'm glad they're watching Black Hawk Down. They think President Bush is a Bill Clinton clone. They'll find out soon enough why Iraq isn't Somalia.

Lets see:
1 No armor.
2 No attack copters or fixed wing air cover.
3 No artillery.
4 No plan.
5 No balls ( on the Commander in Chief )

Yup should go exactly like Mogadishu...

[Future Snake Eater]

Actually, the Somalis shot down 5 Black Hawks in that battle, only 2 crashed in the city itself. As far as the 18 dead, considering there were 99 soldiers on the ground, they were being hunted by most of a city's population, and they were only able to kill about 20% of the enemy while our guys killed anywhere from 1,000-5,000 Somalis (no one really knows how many we killed--and yes, we killed lots of women and children b/c for some reason the gunfight attracted onlookers instead of dispersing them), I wouldn't be too quick to use that battle as a model of how to run things.

[Poohbah]

the Iraqi president is using the Oscar-winning movie

Impossible. He's dead.

Well, the Iraqis are using Weekend at Bernie's and the Monty Python "Dead Parrot Sketch" to get past THAT obstacle.

[Poohbah]

You know, I can't figure out why anyone would be ATTRACTED to a gunfight for the purpose of spectating.

Is Mogadishu REALLY that boring a place?

[BigWaveBetty]

Is Aidid is still around? If so maybe we should go take care of his butt when we're done in Iraq.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Send them some Rambo movies so that they will see that resistance is hopeless.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Somalia was a UN play. This one is defintely not.

[Tom Bombadil]

There are a lot of people who think the Americans are sort of soft, and they just don't have much resolve.

Sigh,......Bill Clinton's legacy.

He is still costing U.S. military lives.........He didn't send the right support stuff into Somalia, a lot of people died, he pulled the troops out prematurely, and now the rest of the terrorist world thinks they can roll the U.S. by taking gargantuan casualties.

We've been raped by our ex-president and he's probably telling us to "put ice on it".

[xp38]

Never been there but I'd take a gamble and say yes.

[b4its2late]

He's dead, Jim!