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2006-08-18 Iraq
Large (really) Weapons Cache Seized in Baghdad
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Posted by Glenmore 2006-08-18 13:04|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 How much would this set them back, money wise i wonder?
Posted by plainslow 2006-08-18 13:43||   2006-08-18 13:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Not much compared to what they're spending. Tip of the iceberg.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-08-18 13:46||   2006-08-18 13:46|| Front Page Top

#3 One weapon for every 70 buildings? You could do a lot better in Idaho.

The garbage collection went better, nearly 100 pounds per building. Your tax dollar at work.
Posted by  KBK 2006-08-18 13:47||   2006-08-18 13:47|| Front Page Top

#4 One weapon for every 70 buildings? You could do a lot better in Idaho.

The garbage collection went better, nearly 100 pounds per building. Your tax dollar at work.
Posted by  KBK 2006-08-18 13:49||   2006-08-18 13:49|| Front Page Top

#5  ...and removed 900 tons of trash.

It reads like The Twelve Days of Christmas. By the time they get done, it probably feel like it, too.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-18 13:50||   2006-08-18 13:50|| Front Page Top

#6 I've got a recommendation on the 81mm aiming stakes if .... anyone wishes to hear it.
Posted by Besoeker 2006-08-18 13:56||   2006-08-18 13:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Any of it from Iran?
Posted by flyover 2006-08-18 14:43||   2006-08-18 14:43|| Front Page Top

#8 No shutter guns! And what is a .30cal shape charge?
Posted by Inspector Clueso 2006-08-18 15:27||   2006-08-18 15:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Question: Is this old Saddam era material or new Iranian sourced munitions? The fact that nobody's say'n makes me wonder.
Posted by john">john  2006-08-18 15:30||   2006-08-18 15:30|| Front Page Top

#10 I would just love to see the crater if we blew the stuff in place.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2006-08-18 16:19||   2006-08-18 16:19|| Front Page Top

#11 The bayonets seem a little out of place...
Posted by Raj 2006-08-18 16:23||   2006-08-18 16:23|| Front Page Top

#12 Not a whole lot from my experience in Fallujah....
Posted by Bama Marine 2006-08-18 16:38||   2006-08-18 16:38|| Front Page Top

#13 Good on ya Bama. Glad that you are home safe. Thanks beyond words for your service.
Posted by remoteman 2006-08-18 17:08||   2006-08-18 17:08|| Front Page Top

#14 "Hey, that's my sh*t!"

Maurice Clarett
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-08-18 17:19||   2006-08-18 17:19|| Front Page Top

#15 They should just stick to the big stuff. Mortar rounds, explosives, RPGs, etc. It just sounds silly to list things like "30 9mm rounds" and "wooden stick that could be used to hit things with."

And AKs. Everybody has AKs. Not noteworthy.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-08-18 18:06||   2006-08-18 18:06|| Front Page Top

#16 Hi 'ya Bama!
Posted by 6 2006-08-18 18:12||   2006-08-18 18:12|| Front Page Top

#17 Naw 'Moose
What if is was a crudgel of major dimensions? Say a 38 oz. Louisville slugger with a nail on the end - AKA a Navel Destroyer.
Posted by 6 2006-08-18 18:15||   2006-08-18 18:15|| Front Page Top

#18 This is the group who were due to come home, but got extended. I was very upset at that, but I guess they have done something worthwhile by staying after all. Taking this shit away is bound to save American lives. Nice job. Stay safe.
Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-08-18 19:12||   2006-08-18 19:12|| Front Page Top

#19 After reading the list, I don't see anything a good-ole boy Louisiana gator-hunter doesn't have, in about the same quantities... The only thing missing is the eight boxes of dynamite, a hundred yards of 1/2" steel cable, and a LARGE hook. Oh, and a couple of gallons of home-brew.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2006-08-18 20:17|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2006-08-18 20:17|| Front Page Top

#20 Reminds me of a song from a guy in OH, had middling success regionally and then died quite young. Blind, funny, great guitar player. Song starts off:

We was takin' a break out at Laramie Lake, just me an' Billy John Gibbons
with some 10-test line and a fifth of 'shine an a couple o' old Blue Ribbons.

We caught three bald tires, some rusty old pliers and a real bad cold a'fishin.
It was all we had but wadn't too bad for people in our condition.

And then the night turned bright and my face turned white and I thought I must be sleepin'.
It was big and round, comin' close to the gound, all buzzin' an' a-beepin'.

An then a voice in my head, well it suddenly said "Say - how'd ya' like to take a ride son?
We couldn't help seein' you're a hum-ean bein'and we'd like to take a look inside one."

I've been ridin' in a UFO. Stereo tape an' 4-on-the-floor.
I've been ridin' in a UFO with some funny lookin little green men and I'm never goin' back again!

Goes on in hilarious detail about their adventure, including the interplanetary poker game they lost their shirts in. Ends

... and somebody turned the hose on.
It was a quarter to eight and we was standin' on the State House steps without no clothes on.

Ya know you oughta go looking for them little green crooks that took us to the cleaners
'stead a talking to us Sarge 'bout a federal charge an' 14 misdimeanors.

I've been ridin' in a UFO.
Mama don't believe me but I know it's so.
I've been ridin' in a UFO with some funny looking little green men and I'm never going back again!

OK, I know none of you know the song and I can't play the music here but it's really pretty good and OP's comment set it playing in my head. LOL
Posted by lotp 2006-08-18 20:39||   2006-08-18 20:39|| Front Page Top

#21 So that's where all my 1/2" steel cable went. AND my dynamite.
Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2006-08-18 20:56||   2006-08-18 20:56|| Front Page Top

#22 Seriously glad that the Brave Lions of Islam didn't decide to try and use any of this (or blow it in place) when our boys cleared the room. That coulda been nasty. And, thanks for your work Bama. Don't know ya, but I salute you with a BIG War Eagle!
Posted by BA 2006-08-18 22:27||   2006-08-18 22:27|| Front Page Top

#23 Will say again that iff anti-Saddamists had this kind of firepower before, SADDAM would not had stayed in power so long. Just more evidencia that the insurgency was pre-planned by Saddam and anti-US agendists.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-08-18 23:40||   2006-08-18 23:40|| Front Page Top

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