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What one company is doing about the AWB and its possible Sunset
Armalite website ^ | unk | Mark A. Westrom

Posted on 10/31/2003 5:58:27 AM PST by Long Cut

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To: Burkeman1
I have stated from the get-go that I disagree with the policy of disarming the general Iraqi population. We should let those citizens stay armed to defend themselves and help clean up the mess...but it would be difficult for our forces, going into an Iraqi on Iraqi firefight to distinguish the bad from the good if it got to the point where their own people could not handle it...and that is likely to still happen.

When we find ba'athists and former Hussein loyalists, I have no problem with them going in there and kicking the doors down. we shoould focus on that IMHO.

As to the number of personnel we have lost. Every single one of the losses is a tragedy to the families, loved ones, friends and this nation. But realistically, in invading and occupying a country as large and as ethnically fractured as Iraq..the losses are small by any comparison to any major war effort. We lose more citizens on our own streets in the major cities in the same time frame.

I do not say that to minimize or trivialize it...just to set the perspective.

201 posted on 11/17/2003 9:54:51 PM PST by Jeff Head
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To: Jeff Head
I understand your statements. I too think the same way. Yes- 400 Dead is a tragic figure. And I don't want to lesson their deaths. But it is hardly indicative of a military "quagmire".

On the the other hand it is a political, diplomatic, and financial quagmire that this country was darn fool to engage in.

But the image of our troops kicking in doors of entire blocks of neighborhoods that they think might harbor rebels? I thought the majority loved us? Wasn't that what we were told?

That brings up images that are not good. And that fact . . . that we have to do such indiscrimante raids- tells this amatuer that our intel is soft and weak and they do more harm than good.

Just an opinion.
202 posted on 11/17/2003 10:05:48 PM PST by Burkeman1 ((If you see ten troubles comin down the road, Nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.))
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To: Burkeman1
My own sources on the ground over there indicate to me that the vast majority are happy we are there. z,pz. I believe that to be the case, but also believe that the media and the democrats and left will do anything they can to paint the picture as badly as possible. We help their cause with such actions as general fire arms confiscations.

...and, on top of all of that, in areas with larger numbers of hold overs, it is a hard and brutal job to ferret them out along with the infiltrators and terrorists from other countries. Intel is soft in some areas, but in others we are getting a lot of help from the locals. The Sunni triangle is the biggest problem and it is no accident that the largest numbers of ba'athist holdovers resides there.

203 posted on 11/17/2003 10:12:07 PM PST by Jeff Head
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To: Jeff Head
I hope you are right! Destroy the Ammo dumps all over Iraq and then hunt down the 5000 rebels that American intel says is against us. Then it will be over!
204 posted on 11/17/2003 10:15:36 PM PST by Burkeman1 ((If you see ten troubles comin down the road, Nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.))
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To: Long Cut
Hi Long Cut,

It will be interesting to see what develops in the next 9 months as the clock ticks down. While I would like to be optimistic that an ineffective gun restriction will go the way of prohibition, I will be quite content if it remains in it's current form with NO changes. To do my part, I have been writing elected officials including Bush to show him my opposition to this law that is a waste of the paper it is printed on.

TX65

205 posted on 12/13/2003 5:32:34 PM PST by tx65
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To: tx65
I'm real hopeful right now, tx. Financial considerations have forced me to put off a purchase of a new rifle at this time. I'm going to have to gamble on it sunsetting so I could fit a new semiauto into the family budget.

Assuming, of course, that prices come down a little.

206 posted on 01/23/2004 12:25:06 PM PST by Long Cut
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