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2011-02-10 Afghanistan
Petraeus Anticipates Bloody Spring This Year
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Posted by Fred 2011-02-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top
 File under: Taliban 

#1 How this humble person would prefer to see Afghanistan done...
1) spend a small portion of the budget on Fort Meade to come up with several killer virii for opium poppies and pot that will live in the soil for decades ..
2) spread the virus strains all over Afghanistan and Pashtunistan.
3) if they work the operating capital of the talibunnies suffers a major major impact.
and ... the whole Kar-brother bs gets diminished...
see what that gains...
Posted by Water Modem 2011-02-10 01:16||   2011-02-10 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 E-mailing from the PAX terminal USO. 4 hour flight to nowhere and return. Fogged in at destination. Bird was not ISR capable. These young soldiers and Marines are READY for the bastids General Petreaus! Let em bring it on! Makes an old man proud. Should make everyone back in the world proud also. These young people are the best.

My take on it is the so called Spring TB offensive won't amount to a pale of warm piss. I could be wrong, but think ISAF has crippled the buggers good. Pray for the troops, even if you're not the praying type.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-02-10 05:09||   2011-02-10 05:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Thank you, Besoeker. They make us all proud. It's going to be a very interesting year, I suspect.
Posted by trailing wife 2011-02-10 08:20||   2011-02-10 08:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Pray for the troops, even if you're not the praying type.

I do and I am. Godspeed and straight shooting
Posted by Frank G 2011-02-10 08:58||   2011-02-10 08:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Alas, water modem, Ft. Meade is not the home of such research. But I echo the sentiments.
Posted by lotp 2011-02-10 09:08||   2011-02-10 09:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Ft. Detrick?
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-02-10 09:19||   2011-02-10 09:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Petraeus Anticipates Bloody Spring This Year

aka a target rich environment

- when they send in the old men and boys, they're down to their last reserves -
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-02-10 09:19||   2011-02-10 09:19|| Front Page Top

#8 I know as a former infantryman, the troop's response is usually, "Bring it, fuckers!"
Posted by DarthVader 2011-02-10 11:33||   2011-02-10 11:33|| Front Page Top

#9 - when they send in the old men and boys, they're down to their last reserves -

Take them out. They are the type-As we could do without.
Posted by gorb 2011-02-10 11:46||   2011-02-10 11:46|| Front Page Top

#10 I hope it is the enemies' blood.

I would hope that we would make this conflict so costly to the enemy that they would not want us to return or they would not want to f^ck with us in the future.
Posted by JohnQC 2011-02-10 14:32||   2011-02-10 14:32|| Front Page Top

#11 I wonder if Petraeus said this tongue-in-cheek, with the idea that this new toy would be in the field.
Posted by gorb 2011-02-10 15:57||   2011-02-10 15:57|| Front Page Top

#12 It's matured nicely and those troops who have tested it like it (with suggestions for even more improvements). However there are only a few copies of the XM-25 in existence right now.
Posted by lotp 2011-02-10 19:35||   2011-02-10 19:35|| Front Page Top

#13 However there are only a few copies of the XM-25 in existence right now.

Turn the design over to the master machinists, and have them return a share of the profits to the patent holder(s). No problem getting a least a trickle until the factory lines are up and running.
Posted by trailing wife 2011-02-10 19:51||   2011-02-10 19:51|| Front Page Top

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