[Travis McGee]

ping

[samtheman]

I bet there will be smaller, cheaper versions of this, completely remote-controlled.

[OXENinFLA]

bump.

[GretchenEE]

A Godsend, an answer to prayer. I rejoice to read this.

God bless and save our troops.

[gitmo]

At times, locals will point out potential bomb sights, for fear that an attack could harm their children, Lipe said.

Don't tell the democRats. They want Iraqis to do anything to hurt Americans.

[TomasUSMC]

I don't like the whole idea of this great hurrah arising from the use - finally - of mineclearing vechiles and robots. These mines are remotely controlled. Our little anti-mine rover detects a mine, and then what happens?

Well the mine can be blown and there goes our little rover. That is a win for the terrorist. Not as big a win as notching some kia and wia stats, but a win nevertheless. And what the terrs will do now is plant two bombs. We can't afford to trade one rover per buried artillery shell.

We must be proactive. Cordon the Sunni triangle off and clear it out! The clearing out process should be linked to the continued resistance of the people in that area. When there is a bomb planted the reaction should be to bulldoze entire blocks and make it public. Those people need to fear the U.S. more than the Mulluhs and terrorist.

All this school building and infrastructure creation has nothing to do with winning the peace and beating the terrs. We could build up Iraq to the level of Saudi Arabia or Turkey - and what would you have. Well those two countries are - in Saudi's case, the nesting place for Islamic terrorism and in Turkey's case a country which democratically stopped our 4Th Division from opening up a Northern Front and shortening the war by half.


You can be a compassionate conservative but not a compassionate combatent.

[r9etb]

Great story! What I especially like is that this group of young enlisted guys have got so much influence -- it speaks very well of the quality of our soldiers, and also of their commanders.