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2007-04-30 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2007-04-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Cool, if a bit puzzling. Perhaps now all those artillerymen/women can finally do their thing. Puzzling part is that bad guys would form up in a situation/place that would allow use of indirect fire. Let's hope it's a trend ....

Posted by Verlaine 2007-04-30 00:26|| 2007-04-30 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 This should have been done long ago. The hell with going house to house causing the squirrels to scurry. Bring down the wrath of hell on these fools. They'll sort the issue internally in a rapid manner. If they can't reach consensus, we'll scoop the rubble into dump trucks later.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-04-30 01:06|| 2007-04-30 01:06|| Front Page Top

#3 From Good Morning Vietnam:

(Radio deejay) Adrian Kronauer: "Welcome to the show. What's your name, soldier?"

GI: "Bob. Bob from Artillery."

AK: "What would you like to hear today, Bob from Artillery?"

GI: "Anything! Just play it loud!"

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-04-30 01:11|| 2007-04-30 01:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Precisely, WE. Artillery's less discriminate nature is an excellent motivational tool for those who have previously proven reluctant to address the problem in front of them. Either they weed out the targets themselves or become one.

Nowhere are we obliged to meticulously sort through groups that allow our enemies to congregate in their midst. This is all part of compelling Islam to perform its own housecleaning. Should they prove less than enthusiastic, the Islamic baby will be thrown out with the jihadist bathwater.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-30 02:56|| 2007-04-30 02:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Occasional blasts could still be heard three hours after they began,

Secondaries?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-04-30 06:02|| 2007-04-30 06:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Preempted by Zenster! Again!

Posted by gromgoru 2007-04-30 06:08|| 2007-04-30 06:08|| Front Page Top

#7 They must be using their new toys: The U.S. Army is gearing up to test, introduce or expand use of several new precision strike munitions, including the Global Positioning System-guided Excalibur projectiles, in Iraq starting next month, Army officials said April 24. At least 65 Excalibur munitions have been provided to U.S. forces in Iraq and up to 500 total are eyed for operations there, according to Roger Savage, the Army's cannon ammunition synchronization officer, and Ken Britt, Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) munitions source selection officer for precision strike.

Raytheon Missile Systems and BAE Systems-Bofors successfully fired 25 Excalibur munitions during an extensive First Article Test series in November. The initial variant ranges 16-18 miles, but the 15-pound weapon is expected to hit as far away as 40 miles.

It's a 155mm round they can drop within six inches of it's target.

Posted by Steve 2007-04-30 07:30|| 2007-04-30 07:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Go Falcons !

Posted by wxjames 2007-04-30 08:30|| 2007-04-30 08:30|| Front Page Top

#9 "...Look...you know Artillery, right? They see a building still standing, they take it as a personal insult."
- John Godey, The Talisman

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-04-30 09:15|| 2007-04-30 09:15|| Front Page Top

#10 "Should they prove less than enthusiastic, the Islamic baby will be thrown out with the jihadist bathwater." Zenster that is an artistic turn of the phrase. :)

Posted by JohnQC 2007-04-30 09:21|| 2007-04-30 09:21|| Front Page Top

#11 Don't forget to start disappearing photo-journalists. Fully half our problem is ceding the propaganda war to are enemies at the BBC, AFP, CNN, etc. Make this war the same non-happening as the goings on in Congo or Burma then we can start cleaning out the stables with the big broom. In my fantasy world, we would start by leveling "mosques" as the enemy compounds they so manifestly are.

We could win this so easily if only we would decide to fight.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-04-30 09:56|| 2007-04-30 09:56|| Front Page Top

#12 There is a nice demonstration for Excalibur on You tube.
Excalibur

Posted by Swiss Tex 2007-04-30 11:25|| 2007-04-30 11:25|| Front Page Top

#13 Excalibur isn't in service yet. The prototype rounds run a mil and a half each.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-04-30 12:19|| 2007-04-30 12:19|| Front Page Top

#14 Preempted by Zenster! Again!

Great minds think alike, gg.

Zenster that is an artistic turn of the phrase.

Thank you very much, JohnQC. I rate it as one of my better efforts, second only to:

Skinless people living in a sandpaper world.

Muslims have an almost unique ability to simultaneously take offense whilst offending nearly everyone else around them. I would stand in awe of their ability to do so if it wasn't so damn offensive to begin with.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-30 14:51|| 2007-04-30 14:51|| Front Page Top

#15 Excalibur... sweet. Though I am suspicious of our ever greater reliance on GPS.

As for "muslims": We need to start taking greater and more violent offense in direct response and out of all proportion to "muslim" offense. That's the Chicago way.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-04-30 18:54|| 2007-04-30 18:54|| Front Page Top

#16 We need to start taking greater and more violent offense in direct response and out of all proportion to "muslim" offense.

Word, Excalibur. Massive and disproportionate retaliation will be required. Islam has yet to feel even a remote shred of the West's pain. Every Muslim atrocity must be repaid tenfold, if not a hundred or thousand so.

Citizens of the MME (Muslim Middle East), must eventually learn to revile the name of Mohammed. Enough of them must die whereby "Islam" finally comes to be seen as a curse upon their lives. Jihadists must end up being regarded as having brought doom and disaster to their entire region. Only then will the turning point have been reached. The sole remaining alternative is nuclear holocaust.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-30 19:41|| 2007-04-30 19:41|| Front Page Top

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