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2006-05-03 Iraq

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-05-03 06:42|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "They (Australians) will kill you with PowerPoint and talking. I said to them, 'In Iraq we use RPG-7.' "

That line just bears repeating.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-05-03 07:51|| 2006-05-03 07:51|| Front Page Top

#2 who knew there was a Kurdish Military College?

Posted by Liberalhawk 2006-05-03 09:23|| 2006-05-03 09:23|| Front Page Top

#3 In "Whay Arab lose wars" the author (name escapes me) tells of Egyptian officers who ordered troops to form aline so they protected them (the officers) from the wind. But this guy is a Kurd, not an Arab.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-05-03 09:33|| 2006-05-03 09:33|| Front Page Top

#4 who knew there was a Kurdish Military College

It is now the 2nd campus of the Iraqi military academy, IIRC.

Posted by lotp 2006-05-03 09:48|| 2006-05-03 09:48|| Front Page Top

#5 "They will kill you with PowerPoint and talking. I said to them, 'In Iraq we use RPG-7.' "

I notice this is a fairly common complaint by smaller militaries against the Anglo-sphere/US military. I recall the former warsaw pact officers saying similar things in the 90's...

Oh, well, we have to keep the echelons above reality entertained somehow while real work is getting done. Otherwise the silly twits might try to help us out in the field (shudders).

Posted by N guard 2006-05-03 12:36|| 2006-05-03 12:36|| Front Page Top

#6 *rueful smile* Thus it ever is, in large organizations, N Guard. At least you military guys always know what you are doing, and why. Can you imagine being an honourable Episcopalian priest, trying to keep the Archbishop of Canterbury from destroying your parish?

Posted by trailing wife 2006-05-03 14:00|| 2006-05-03 14:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Unfortunately, Iraq did not have a war hero to form a secular political party and run in the parlimentary elections.

Had such a person existed and had he done well, we would be far ahead of where we are now.

Posted by mhw 2006-05-03 14:28|| 2006-05-03 14:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Below the Martyr's Monument near the Jumhuriya Bridge over the Tigris in Bahgdad lies a subterrainian hall with huge stone tablets of Iraqi's killed during their conflict with Iran. In the center are single tablet "special commemorations." One in particular was dedicated to an Iraqi Air Force fighter pilot (as read by the translator) who, after running out of rockets and ammunition, used his MIG as an air-to-air missile, bringing down an Iranian jet. When I asked the guide how many names were inscribed, he curtly replied "count them" and walked away.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-03 16:12|| 2006-05-03 16:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Can you imagine being an honourable Episcopalian priest, trying to keep the Archbishop of Canterbury from destroying your parish?

TW: That's the stuff of nightmares. *shudder*

Posted by Xbalanke 2006-05-03 16:57|| 2006-05-03 16:57|| Front Page Top

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