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2007-09-26 Afghanistan

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Posted by tu3031 2007-09-26 09:09|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 Oh yeah! These are great ratios. I hope some videos from these battles surface -- asploding insurgent videos are fun.

Posted by Captain Lewis 2007-09-26 09:59|| 2007-09-26 09:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Here's the deal, at night they stake a female goat out in the kill zone, and come morning jihadis of every stripe are converging on the nervous animal.
Carefully placed snipers and mortar squads beat back the hoards and call in air to help rescue the goat. Fifty cals mow down the scattered jihadis as the rangers cover her sensitive parts and usher her clear of the kill zone.
The great part is you don't even have to train the goats.

Posted by wxjames 2007-09-26 10:21|| 2007-09-26 10:21|| Front Page Top

#3 *speechless*

Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-26 10:37|| 2007-09-26 10:37|| Front Page Top

#4 CJTF-82 reports 61 killed in the first attack, and 65 in the second.

I can't even get up for a cup of coffee without having to add to the Terrorist Death Watch. Can I complain we're killing them too fast to count?

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2007-09-26 10:39|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2007-09-26 10:39|| Front Page Top

#5 No, Chuck. But we appreciate and value your service. ;-)

Posted by lotp 2007-09-26 10:42|| 2007-09-26 10:42|| Front Page Top

#6 rest in pieces b*tches.......

Posted by Broadhead6 2007-09-26 10:48|| 2007-09-26 10:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Are these talibunnies like %90 Pak origin?

Posted by 3dc 2007-09-26 11:26|| 2007-09-26 11:26|| Front Page Top

#8 wxjames is waxing poetic this morning.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-09-26 11:30|| 2007-09-26 11:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Dontcha love how "escalating violence" is usually massive losses for the enemy? The implication is that things are bad. But dead enemy is GOOD (notwithstanding "sophisticated" COIN thinking to which at least lip service is so fashionable today, esp. among some military officers).

As I recall this was a frequent media phenomenon in Iraq - "uptick in violence" "surging attacks" "bold insurgent attacks", etc. - and you'd read down a few paragraphs and see the enemy got waxed, harvested, slaughtered. Pathetic on the part of the editors who shape the narrative ....

Posted by Verlaine 2007-09-26 12:29|| 2007-09-26 12:29|| Front Page Top

#10 the Talibunnies can't keep this up.

Sure they can. Plenty more just over the border in Pakistan. You could run trucks day and night for weeks and not make a dent in the population of Pakistani males who want to die fighting in Afghanistan.

Posted by gromky 2007-09-26 12:47|| 2007-09-26 12:47|| Front Page Top

#11 Doc and #10. But what about Paradise keeping up the pace? That's almost 12,000 virgins needed for just two battles.

Posted by GK 2007-09-26 13:42|| 2007-09-26 13:42|| Front Page Top

#12 Outstanding contact-to-targeting time.

"Wanna meet my leetle friends?"

Posted by Bugs Grang9248 2007-09-26 13:48|| 2007-09-26 13:48|| Front Page Top

#13
King Arthur: Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no arms left!
The Black Knight: Yes, I have.
King Arthur: Look!!!
The Black Knight: Just a flesh wound.

Posted by Justrand 2007-09-26 13:50|| 2007-09-26 13:50|| Front Page Top

#14 wxjames #2: That's some masterful baiting, just don't get caught! ;-)

Posted by gorb 2007-09-26 14:37|| 2007-09-26 14:37|| Front Page Top

#15 ...and the administration keeps hiding the fact that our voluntary mercenaries are being outsmarted and overwhelmed by the righteous freedom fighters in ther brutal Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Wintertime offensives...

Oh the USA is a Kruel Kapitalistic Kountry!!

It's Just Like Vietnam when we cBS took North Vietnam's side and declared victory for Ho!

Posted by cBS">cBS 2007-09-26 16:04|| 2007-09-26 16:04|| Front Page Top

#16 #3 *speechless*
Posted by: trailing wife

LMAO!!

/btw, way funny Mr. wxjames

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-09-26 16:10|| 2007-09-26 16:10|| Front Page Top

#17 <<<<<<<<< cracks open a tinny...This what I call Natural Law.

Maybe the Score Card needs wider advertising, like a few bill boards in the madrassa.

Posted by rhodesiafever 2007-09-26 18:02|| 2007-09-26 18:02|| Front Page Top

#18 I don't think the person who wrote this nor the one that edited it know what the word "escalation" means.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-09-26 18:46|| 2007-09-26 18:46|| Front Page Top

#19 i hope they can't rest in peace i hell

Posted by sinse 2007-09-26 19:26|| 2007-09-26 19:26|| Front Page Top

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