"The U.S. likes to think that all it confronts are a few die-hard Saddamists, but..."

The Sydney Morning Herald ^ | August 16, 2003 | Paul McGeough

[Steel and Fire and Stone]

Better they go to Iraq to meet our snipers, than they come to America to meet our kids.

Roger that.

[Paleo Conservative]

The United States likes to think that all it confronts in Iraq are a few die-hard Saddamists Saddamites.

[cake_crumb]

"ZAP!"

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Steel and Fire and Stone]

I smell Iran and Syria in all this and pretty soon there will be American soldiers walking those streets as well. When that happens the sponsors of idiots like this guy will be long gone.

Don't forget our friends the Saudi's. You are correct. I know of no gurrilla movement that was totally indigenous, that was totally devoid of outside support from countries who used the gurrillas as their proxys.

Iraq is bordered by several countries who's interests are, or have been known to have been, very hostile to ours. The continuing support of these countries is responsible for the deaths of our soldiers. If Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Saudi A., Iran, and Kuwait locked down their borders, the Iraqi "resistance" would rapidly dry up. I wouldn't put the Russians out of reach either. After all, these guys generally carry AK's, not M16s, and I don't know of many AK factories in the Middle East. Whether it's material aid, money, or intelligence information, I'm sure some or all of these countries are playing "realpolitik" at the expense of our servicemen and women.

I hope Bush acts to shut down the outside support. He hasn't been all that "PC" about prosecuting the war thus far, but word I've heard is that the White House want's to cool things down as much as possible between now and election day. They don't want any new wars, or expanded conflicts. But then again, we didn't want one on 9/11 either.

SFS

[Travis McGee]

#20: Well stated.

[Screaming_Gerbil]

Haqi: "One night I was driving during the curfew hours with a box of grenades in the car. The Americans stopped me and I told them that my wife was in the hospital. 'Go, go,' they yelled without searching the car. We thank God they are so stupid."

This seems to be an insight into how they think:

The Americans acted with compassion, believing it was a husband rushing to be with his wife in the hospital, and as a result just waved him on and yelled at him to him to go without stopping to search the car. Then this Haqi laughs about it and calls them stupid.

[FierceDraka]

Er, Ahmed, If we wanted to, we could have turned your entire country into a broiling cauldron of molten silicates within a few minutes, you ignorant fool. Second, if we were so inclined, we could easily take every one of your vaunted militants upon capture and send them running down your neighborhood street in flames after having been doused in gasoline and set afiire. And this would be the least that we could do.

Hey, Tom, I like the way you think! Seriously, if I was in charge of operations in Iraq, every attack on an American GI would be avenged with indiscriminate napalm strikes on the local mosques.

But then again, I'm not a politician or a diplomat - just a bloody-minded America Firster who thinks the Islamic world needs to be utterly crushed, burned, and beaten into complete submission.

[dennisw]

The U.S. military in Iraq is like a giant crackling purple bug zapper light, attracting all of the Islamocrazies in the world to their doom.......


Guerilla warfare but the guerillas are foreign, don't have the support of the Iraqi people. But ya know what? They are gonna work on that and start propagandizing. These scum have the tactical advantage with their RPG ambushes of our convoys.
We need to have a network of paid informers and rats just like the Israelis.

[RusIvan]

After all, these guys generally carry AK's, not M16s, and I don't know of many AK factories in the Middle East. ==

You didn't never heard about egiptian AK the Maadi? Then you have to check it out.
Arabs carry the old soviet models of AK. AK-47 clones.
Plenty of countries produce them. Probably near hundred of countries. Including Pakistan, India, China, Egypt, Siria, Iran and so on.

Russian models today are AK74M and the AK100 line. Those the models of 90th. They doewsn't have those.

[Travis McGee]

That's a typical insane murder cultist for you!