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2003-09-13 Iraq

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Posted by Paul Moloney 2003-09-13 2:04:33 AM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Captured? Why? Maneuver them into a favorable position, then drop a MOAB on them.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-9-13 2:14:26 AM|| 2003-9-13 2:14:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Lightly armed - but loaded with money to buy what they needed in-country (easier than lugging the hardware around - and there's plenty to be had) and that funny gleam in their eye that sez, "Go ahead, make my day, arrest me before I can even reach the Sunni Traingle!" Being gracious gentlemen, the 101st and the 3rd obliged. "It was the least we could do - some of them had come so far." said Pvt Buddy "Rat-a-tat" Roberts, SAW Specialist. "They looked real tired - and when we jumped 'em, they saved us a whole bunch of ammo by just giving up right there. Mighty considerate of 'em, I'd say."

Perhaps this Op should grow some legs and be extended a bit... since they struck gold and all... Hold off on that MOAB, B-a-R... Replicate this on the Eastern and Southern borders and who knows? Might nab enough of these clowns that the Saudis & Black Hats will end up paying for the occupation! (snicker)

Posted by .com (Prez for Life - My Isles of Langerhans) 2003-9-13 2:30:30 AM|| 2003-9-13 2:30:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I guess it would be too much to ask for US democrats to STFU about criticism of Iraq, now that we know foreign fighters are infiltrating into Iraq. The war is still on and their silence will be far more useful than their traitorous yammering about the war that is still going on in Iraq.

Posted by badanov 2003-9-13 5:27:59 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2003-9-13 5:27:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Bomb-a-rama: Intel my boy, intel. What is left after a MOAB does not say much. Better the giggle juice.

Posted by Ben 2003-9-13 5:58:55 AM|| 2003-9-13 5:58:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Following the money. Say jihad, where'ja get these 'death to america' flyers, and the 20 grand ?

Posted by eyeyeye 2003-9-13 10:20:12 AM|| 2003-9-13 10:20:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 "About 300, er, make that 80 foreign fighters who were captured..."

Posted by Anonymous 2003-9-13 11:17:48 AM|| 2003-9-13 11:17:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Next step is to incorporate them into a chain gang to lay a minefield from the Iraq-Kuwait-Saudi corner, up to the Jordanian border, then north and east across the Jordanian border, along the Syrian border, and up to the Turkish border. Lay it in a neat pattern - a box/12 overlapping a second, random grouping, all capable of being activated/deactivated electronically. About a half-mile wide sounds right. Add a paved road just beyond the minefield, with both ground-based and air-mobile surveillance crews. Go out once a day, turn the field off long enough to clear the "catch", then turn it back on again.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-9-13 5:33:00 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-9-13 5:33:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I recommend pink underwear for all my friends on Old Patriot's chain gang.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-13 5:55:38 PM|| 2003-9-13 5:55:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 right after they finish the minefield, perhaps they can get to work burying the oil pipelines so that they can't be sabotaged quite so easily. Yes, I know it's easier to just lay them across the top of the sand, but you'd think that security would have been considered -- considering the neighborhood...

Posted by snellenr 2003-9-13 11:14:17 PM|| 2003-9-13 11:14:17 PM|| Front Page Top

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