[Sweetpkl]

Ok...so it's alright to place an ammo dump in a neighborhood???!!! How's about we put one in the middle of your town. IF this is true, then it was a stupid decision and the Iraqi's have every right to be angry.

[Smile-n-Win]

The article is just fishy to me. See my post #8.

Plus, CNN does routinely use the word "angry" to describe Arab crowds. The implication being that they're angry with us, of course.

[demnomo]

It was the Iraqis who put the stuff there in the first place, idiot. Yeah, blame the US troops. There are hundreds, if not thousands of these ammo caches placed in schools, neighborhoods, mosques and even hospitals by the Ba'athist slime. The Coalition was disarming them as fast as possible. Sometimes we blew them up if they weren't located in residential sections. Others were being guarded until they could be safely disarmed or emptied.

I'll bet that some Ba'athist, foreign jihadist or Islamofascist scum were trying to procure more arms to harass the Coalition and cause more turmoil. (They've been doin just that for weeks now.)

Those Iraqi citizens have a right to be angry...but their anger is misplaced--not that it isn't being helped along by CNN, Reuters, and Al Jazeera who want the Coalition to fail and be blamed for everything bad that happens...

[Tunehead54]

I'm only gonna say this once ... For weeks we've seen school after hospital after mosque stuffed floor to ceiling with AK 47s, RPGs, mines, cases and cases of ammo, etc, etc.

Every cache has to be checked individually for booby traps. Once a site is known it can only be guarded until its cleared. That's what we were doing when the site was attacked. One of our guys got hurt defending the site.

The Iraqis need to reveal all they know about every cache - we'll take care of them as quickly as possible but we're still dealing with a war and people in the middle can get hurt.

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