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2010-07-08 Afghanistan

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-07-08 11:06|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Stupid Shits, I noticed them weaving back and forth, a single Machine Gun trained in the middle would get almost all of them.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-07-08 12:29|| 2010-07-08 12:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Napalm would be very effective in those valleys

Posted by 3dc 2010-07-08 13:19|| 2010-07-08 13:19|| Front Page Top

#3 The frames are obviously selected for propaganda effect, but these fighters are pretty impressive - they're stoic, tenacious and capable of directing aimed fire (accurate or not) at coalition forces, in the face of chopper and A-10 attacks. They're also collecting their dead and wounded, like a disciplined force. Obviously we have better equipment, but if all of these people are similarly motivated and they live long enough to have a chance to get some experience and learn from it, this war's going to get worse before it gets better.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2010-07-08 16:40|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com 2010-07-08 16:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Impressive? I didn't get the impression they were stoic, tenacious or all that capable. Any one can learn to point a weapon down range. They collected their wounded. I didnt' see the collect any dead. They reminded me of a paramilitary force, not soldiers. The weird thing was, as soon as I saw the A-10, and what I think was an Apache, but way to jumpy and blurry, they only thought I has was, "Must be fighting US troops. I guess they lost the battle."

Posted by miscellaneous 2010-07-08 16:58|| 2010-07-08 16:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Please. The war is going to go underground in 2011/2012-ish, troops will come home. It will be quiet for a short while. Then, in a few years it will be revived when we have another large terrorist attack, but we will also be attacking other terrrorist bases of operation besides Afghanistan, like Somalia or something.

Posted by Ford Maude Elle 2010-07-08 17:48|| 2010-07-08 17:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Total edited propaganda. Camera was 90 degrees out from both the A-10 and the Apache. Didn't see any incoming near the ~~terrorists~~ freedom fighters.

Posted by Flapper Scourge of the Algonquins4926 2010-07-08 19:22|| 2010-07-08 19:22|| Front Page Top

#7 I have to agree with flapper that there seems to be a lot of editing going on.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-07-08 20:14|| 2010-07-08 20:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Impressive? I didn't get the impression they were stoic, tenacious or all that capable. Any one can learn to point a weapon down range. They collected their wounded. I didnt' see the collect any dead. They reminded me of a paramilitary force, not soldiers.

If the clip isn't majorly edited, they're advancing in the face of coalition fire and air support. It's not just a matter of pointing a weapon downrange. It's a matter of exposing yourself to coalition fire. Fighters who unable to control their fear simply hide behind cover and raise their weapons above the obstacle without exposing their heads and fire wildly without even looking at their target. That is the meaning of spray and pray. From the unblinking stare of the last individual being carried in, I think he was a goner.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2010-07-08 22:05|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com 2010-07-08 22:05|| Front Page Top

#9 zhang fei, yeah they still fight like this 20 years after the soviets tried it but now they don't have the US giving them stingers. So what are they gonna do about that air power. I say we are doing the right thing by letting all the little jihadi wannabes come to afghanistan and die and the russians are doing the same thing by killing the shit out of the chechens in the caucuses.They get killed there and go there so they don't come here.Nopw we just need too exterminate that nest in pakiland.

Posted by chris 2010-07-08 22:22|| 2010-07-08 22:22|| Front Page Top

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