[steplock]

I got as far as:
"...what had been a much tougher plan to rid postwar Iraq of heavy weapons..." when refering to allowing Iraqi's to keep their AK's.

Gotta hate the left-wing radical extremists ... who haven't the slightest idea of reality - nor of what constitutes "Heavy Weapons"

An AK-47 is NOT.

[American in Israel]

U.S. retreats from previous policy. Military officials have said it's hard to disarm people who fear for their safety.

This is as far as I got. Wish they would apply this in the United States. Seems Iraq is more free now.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Bang

[Euro-American Scum]

In a significant retreat from U.S. efforts to seize weapons held by Iraqi citizens, U.S. and British officials said Saturday that Iraqis would be allowed to keep AK-47 assault rifles in their homes and businesses.

Nice to know the Second Amendment is alive and well somewhere.

[tet68]

Iraqis will still be allowed to keep handguns, rifles and shotguns. But the new instructions contain a lengthy list of much heavier weapons that would be prohibited to most people: machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades, shoulder-fired missiles, antiaircraft guns, mortars, land mines and grenades.

Start 'em on that slippery slope early on eh?

[TLBSHOW]

BUMP

[mvpel]

But Citizens of the State of California can't. How interesting.

[El Gato]

In a significant retreat from U.S. efforts to seize weapons held by Iraqi citizens, U.S. and British officials said Saturday that Iraqis would be allowed to keep AK-47 assault rifles in their homes and businesses.

It's only a "retreat" from what the media reported, not from what CENTCOM announced over a week ago two days after the announcement in "general terms" and well before any "heavy criticism from many Iraqis", not to mention more important criticism by American citizens/voters, could possibly have built up and been communicated back to CENTCOM.

http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/news_release.asp?NewsRelease=20030587.txt

The New York Slimes again.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

It's interesting that the people of Iraq have more second amendment rights than Americans. The AK-47's that they get to keep are FULL AUTOMATIC while we poor Americans can only own SEMI-AUTO rifles.

[Gritty]

BTTT

[Imal]

How encouraging that Iraqis will be spared from the tyranny that has been visited upon Americans.

God bless Iraq.

[frosty snowman]

*BUMP*

[voteconstitutionparty]

That's just great! The Iraqis get to keep their assult weapons,but we don't. The Iraqis get to be more free than we here in the land of the free. Write President Bush,and tell him what you think about his support for the assult weapons ban.

[demosthenes the elder]

GOOD.
Now, let's see if we can arrange to renew our own rights to keep such weapons.

[MonroeDNA]

Powel lost again.

[Shooter 2.5]

This is a major victory for the Iraqi people and for us.

I don't know if you read the articles about the Assault Weapons ban but the libs were saying, why were we disarming the Iraqis if we were not going to continue the AWB. They said we were being hypocrites.

[TLI]

< tard >

Asked Saturday whether Iraqis would be allowed to keep assault rifles in their homes, a spokesman for Bremer said, "Yes, they will be allowed to keep their AK-47s."  "It is not a program for the disarmament of the Iraqi people," added the spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "It is a weapons-control program."

? HUH ?

At the time, the list of automatic weapons to be banned specifically included AK-47 Kalashnikovs, the Russian assault rifles that are nearly ubiquitous in Iraq. But that approach came under heavy criticism from many Iraqis, who argued that families and business owners badly needed the weapons to defend themselves from looters and organized criminal gangs.

OH, now I understand!  I compleatly forgot . . .   there are no criminals or gangs here in the u.S.!

The new weapons policy appears to be the outcome of a debate among top military officials in Iraq. Lt. Gen. David D. McKiernan, commander of U.S. and British land forces in Iraq, told reporters two weeks ago that he was skeptical about simply trying to disarm Iraqi civilians.  "For one thing, I don't think it would be enforceable," McKiernan said at the time.

Well now,, DAVE,  take a W A G what is not enforcable here in America either.

< / tard >

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Just yesterday, we had a coyote invasion, & I went next door to my dad's pasture with my select fire (supressed) FN FAL, & I gave my sister my select fire AK 47, & my niece my M2 carbine, & we got 5 of those bastards!!

OK, it's just barely legal because I have a manufacturer's license, (we are in Illinois) but noone came to take our guns. (& If they tried they wouldn't have left)

I cannot even begin to understand how we can refuse rights to the newly liberated Iraqui people that our constitution allows us!!

[xm177e2]

This is a very good (and not unexpected) change. It was a very stupid idea to try to take rifles from the people.

[RogueIsland]

Iraqis can keep their assault rifles

What about the children!!! Won't somebody please think of the children!!! < /Sarah Brady bleating >