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2003-11-14 Iraq

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Posted by Bulldog 2003-11-14 7:54:47 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 At a certain point you have got to wonder just how much money was spent on all these armaments. Sadaam could have but plenty of shares of Microsoft with his cash.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-11-14 8:08:00 AM|| 2003-11-14 8:08:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Unfortunately, the evidence is that the Baathist/criminals/Islamofascists have plenty of money left and plenty of weapons left. However, the coalition is finally becoming more adept at using Iraqi informers.

Posted by mhw 2003-11-14 8:40:04 AM|| 2003-11-14 8:40:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 It also lookes like a change in policy at Central Command. In the last two weeks, increasing number of news reports, and news releases, refer to enemy casulties. This is a change from a policy where nothing was ever said about enemy losses. In at least two e-mails to CentCom over the last several months, I begged them to make this change. A careful reading of e-mails and blogs from Iraq, and the odd news story or two, told us that the enemy was suffering disproportionate casulties, but CentCom policy was to avoid body counts. With the mood in the United States at a delicate stage, they appear to have decided to let us know how well we are doing, in all respects. Hooray!

IT IS VITAL TO THE MORALE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND TO THE CONTINUATION OF OUR SUPPORT OF THE LIBERATION OF IRAQ THAT WE KNOW THAT OUR MEN AND WOMEN ARE NOT DYING IN VAIN. WE MUST KNOW THAT FOR EVERY AMEARICAN KILLED OR WOUNDED, THE TERRORIST ENEMY IS SUFFERING MULTIPLE DEATHS AND INJURIES.

Gunship Kills 7
SOLDIERS KILL 6
1st ARMORED DIVISION STRIKES BACK, 2 KIA, 3 WIA, and 5 individuals captured

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2003-11-14 10:15:02 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2003-11-14 10:15:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 In a guerilla war destroying enemy's morale is of still greater importance than in conventional war. That is why you have to make everyone (both the fighters and the sympathisers) know when the guerillas suffer setbacks, that ten or twenty guerilleros fall for very soldier.

The second thing is that you have to try to avoid giving soft targets (like Italian carabinieri, who
are closer to police than to real army) to the guerilla: not only because they provide them with morale-boosting successes but because they allow the guerilla to "learn the office" against the soft troops until they can stand against your elite troops: it is far better to force the guerillas to learn against your crack units so they are killed and don't live to improve.

Posted by JFM 2003-11-14 3:58:41 PM|| 2003-11-14 3:58:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Also nice to get the word out there that, contrary to what ABC-CNN-CBS-NBC want you to believe, every helicopter incountry isn't being blasted out of the sky by RPG wielding Iraqis that hate America.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-11-14 8:26:10 PM|| 2003-11-14 8:26:10 PM|| Front Page Top

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