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2003-10-30 Iraq

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Posted by Steve White 2003-10-30 12:41:36 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Seeing as the locals didnât like you guys a whole lot.

Well appearantly they like the Americans, between all the flowers thrown by the Iraqis sometimes a few RPG rockets follow. Must be their way of celebrating, shooting with kalashnikovs and RPG's in the air that mistakenly land on the Rashid hotel.

Posted by Murat 2003-10-30 5:43:02 AM|| 2003-10-30 5:43:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 At first I did not realise Steve, you are quoting Al jazeera. Congrats even I did not use anything from Al Jazeera till now for being accused with biased views, you surprize me!

Posted by Murat 2003-10-30 7:23:52 AM|| 2003-10-30 7:23:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 heh..heh...popular, those Turks. Must all be as pleasant as Murat.

Posted by B 2003-10-30 8:11:11 AM|| 2003-10-30 8:11:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Murat, I as well as Steve W, quote a lot of biased papers. Al-J, Jihad Unspun, Asia Online, Arab News, BBC, Daily Star, etc. If they are REALLY biased, I always put their name in the top of the post as a warning. Even in some of their most outrageous stories, you can find a few nuggets of information that you can't find anywhere else. If nothing else, it gives you a view of how the other side is thinking. That is almost as important as the facts themselves.

Posted by Steve 2003-10-30 8:43:20 AM|| 2003-10-30 8:43:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Good, keep them home. More trouble then they're worth. We trained w/them back in 98' in some area outside Incirlick(sp?). They have some gung ho folks and some totally hard-ass soldiers but deplorable SOPs when it comes to things like safety and maintaining clean/operational equipment. They had some of the dirtiest/rustiest weapons I'd ever seen. I was surprised because we heard how they'd been dealing w/the Kurds and such for years. During one of their formations (or roll call) one morning some moron actually had a round in the chamber of his weapon and the damn thing went off. We laughed our asses off. Lucky no one got killed.

Posted by Jarhead 2003-10-30 9:19:14 AM|| 2003-10-30 9:19:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Two questions about the deployment of Turkish (or, God forbid, Pakistani) troops in Iraq:

1. Exactly who and what does one expect an army from a Muslim country to defeat?

2. Putting Muslim troops into Iraq is like putting what on a fire?

Posted by John 2003-10-30 9:57:08 AM|| 2003-10-30 9:57:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Turkeyâs President Ahmad Necdet Sezer said, "If we can't kill Kurds we see no point in sending troops to Iraq."

That's a paraphrase of his comments of course, but I think they're accurate as towards the intent.Inviting Turkey in was a bad idea to begin with. Kurdistan is the part of Iraq that works, why throw a monkey wrench into now.

Posted by Yank 2003-10-30 12:18:51 PM|| 2003-10-30 12:18:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Kurdistan is the part of Iraq that works, why throw a monkey wrench into now.

It even worked under the UN food-for-oil regime while the rest of the country was a basket case.
Gotta admire those Kurds....

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-10-30 1:18:16 PM|| 2003-10-30 1:18:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Rename Kurdistan "Armenia" and see how fast they get their asses down there.
Right, Murat?

Posted by tu3031 2003-10-30 1:28:03 PM|| 2003-10-30 1:28:03 PM|| Front Page Top

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