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2008-04-26 Iraq

Dodge the Apache and get nailed by the Predator

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-26 03:31|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Mahdi Army

#1 well written. In some ways, these areas aren't so different than in our own inner cities. In some ways they are better off because at least the troublemakers are outright eliminated.

In reading this I realize this type of militia street fighting is futile against modern technological armies. While organized street thugs can prevent order from being formed in their own areas, if they want any real power, they are going to have to learn how to play politics with the big boys.

Posted by Sninert Black9312 2008-04-26 04:22|| 2008-04-26 04:22|| Front Page Top

#2 When the thugs finally stopped in an empty field, another Hellfire screamed out of the evening sky. This time both criminals were killed and the vehicle and mortar were destroyed.

Sniff...I just love a happy ending!

Posted by WTF 2008-04-26 05:55|| 2008-04-26 05:55|| Front Page Top

#3 But was the video released to Baghdad News 5 so that everybody in Sadr City could see how the criminals are hunted down like vermin and destroyed? The PR war is critical and we sure have flubbed it here. I hope that's because the guys who know how to do it right are there, but I doubt that.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-04-26 07:39|| 2008-04-26 07:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Bring out your chiefs an' surrender
You can call us on your cell phones
Don't jump in your car, 'cause you won't get far
You can't get away from the drones.

Posted by Mike 2008-04-26 08:53|| 2008-04-26 08:53|| Front Page Top

#5 But ~~Muqtada~~ Rev Wright and Jesse Jackson and ~~his followers~~ Liberals do not want the people of ~~Sadr City~~ Detroit or any other big Dem City to gain hope for their future. Their power comes from creating and taking advantage of the downtrodden, from the poor, from the disadvantaged.

There, translated it into American.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-26 09:19|| 2008-04-26 09:19|| Front Page Top

#6 "You are the Duke, you are A-Number 1".

Now spend $20 on a good dental cleaning, you're grossing me out.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-04-26 09:26|| 2008-04-26 09:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Smith went on to say, We spot em, we track em and we kill em.
But!!! but what about their human rights???
/sarcasm

I like this guy.

Posted by tipper 2008-04-26 10:47|| 2008-04-26 10:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Tipper---Their human rights were not violated, they just went through a period of accelerated depreciation.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2008-04-26 13:12|| 2008-04-26 13:12|| Front Page Top

#9 I wonder why they used a hellfire instead of their chain gun?

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-04-26 13:15|| 2008-04-26 13:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Something wrong here, first we have three criminals loading a mortar into a trunk the front of the car is zapped and then the statement

The criminals rushed to the mangled auto and grabbed the mortar, tossed it into a second vehicle and sped away.

Now we resume with a predator zapping the car and two 'criminals'

So acording to the script, we now have five dead, two cars destroyed, and hopefully the mortar as well?

So why didn't the headline say so?

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-04-26 13:40|| 2008-04-26 13:40|| Front Page Top

#11 they may have been out of range too use a chain gun

Posted by sinse 2008-04-26 14:44|| 2008-04-26 14:44|| Front Page Top

#12 If they didn't have bad luck they wouldn't have any luck at all.
The criminals have to stop engaging in high risk activities. There's no percentage in it.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-04-26 17:23|| 2008-04-26 17:23|| Front Page Top

#13 Hellfire is more accurate and less likely to produce collateral (i.e. no rounds going astray, just some shrapnel).

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-26 17:59|| 2008-04-26 17:59|| Front Page Top

#14 no ;luck just stupidity

Posted by sinse 2008-04-26 18:26|| 2008-04-26 18:26|| Front Page Top

#15 *happy sigh* Poetry! Thank you, Mike... and the rest of you who've been playing with that wonderful Kipling poem. I've enjoyed your efforts immensely.

Posted by trailing wife 2008-04-26 20:38|| 2008-04-26 20:38|| Front Page Top

#16 What a happy story for a personally hard day for me. I guess theirs was harder. Que sera sera...

Posted by steven 2008-04-26 23:09|| 2008-04-26 23:09|| Front Page Top

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