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2014-10-31 Terror Networks

US sends planes armed with depleted uranium weapons to Middle East

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Posted by Fred 2014-10-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 more 30mm PGU-14B ammo has been used than any other round
Cause it works.

Posted by Skidmark 2014-10-31 00:59|| 2014-10-31 00:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Big whoop.

Let me know when we start using UNdepleted uranium weapons.

Posted by AlanC 2014-10-31 07:22|| 2014-10-31 07:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Just one A-10 strike would put the ISIL folks in a world of hurt.

Subsequently, the Kurds would only need a couple big speakers, amplifier and a 30-second sound-bite of a low strafing run to clear out large swaths of the bad guys.

Do that ruse enough, though, and the jihadis might get used to it enough to stupidly hang around for their next actual 'reception' of the 30mm PGU-14B ammo.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2014-10-31 09:59|| 2014-10-31 09:59|| Front Page Top

#4 The piece of paper I put into the hat says, Yes, to Mullah Richard's proposal.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-10-31 11:08|| 2014-10-31 11:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Fine, let's carpet bomb ISIS with tac nukes using B-52's. If anyone is alive to complain, the complaint desk is in front of that A-10's cannon over there.

Why is there wires hooked to the number? Pull your ticket and find out.

Posted by Silentbrick 2014-10-31 13:40|| 2014-10-31 13:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Several nations have banned DU, and in June Iraq proposed a global treaty banning it - a step also supported by the European and Latin American Parliaments.

That's because none of them have such a weapon.

Posted by Bobby 2014-10-31 14:22|| 2014-10-31 14:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Why not ban IEDs first?

Posted by Bobby 2014-10-31 14:23|| 2014-10-31 14:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Beheadings of civilians is banned as well.

Posted by Airandee 2014-10-31 16:36|| 2014-10-31 16:36|| Front Page Top

#9 There are too many "banned" weapons now. Why the he$$ aren't we using napalm against ISIS? It works! A few dozen drops and ISIS will be ISFRIED. The idea that any "weapon" should be banned from the arsenal unless it does damage to the second or third generation living where it's been used is a crock and needs to be ignored. Somebody use a clue-by-four on our "leadership".

Posted by Old Patriot 2014-10-31 21:38|| 2014-10-31 21:38|| Front Page Top

#10 You are right OS. Really.
Surgical strikes against military targets are good as an augmentive strategy but direct overwhelming force devastating an entire population is what ends wars and builds nations.
The last [now two(2)] generation(s) and their elected officials don't have the stomach for it.

Posted by Skidmark 2014-10-31 23:01|| 2014-10-31 23:01|| Front Page Top

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