I don't have an apt subject line here (Iraq war thread)

[underpants]

Read these links first.

CBS link
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/04/iraq/main2430500.shtml

Same info here
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16972735 /

This sounds a lot like the "Ramadi offensive" of 2003 that Thomas Ricks details in "Fiasco". We need to remember that the Blackhawk "Tanks in the air" turned out to be anything but that which they found out on the initial runs in Iraq.

Gen.Caldwell-okay maybe the threat hasn't increased but the results surely have.

Iran can provide whatever it wants the guy pulling the trigger is the difference and apparently there are a bunch of triggers being pulled.


The MSNBC link above includes a statement from a Saddam linked organization spokesman...they have spokesmen?? there are Saddam organizations??? that doesn't make any sense the whole point to even his most loyal element was that he was out of power 4 years ago and it was every man for himself....or have I mistaken the capitalist model?

Finally there is this

U.S. military helicopters are equipped with long-range sensors and devices to jam radar and infrared technology, but they have proven vulnerable to intense gunfire, as well as rocket-propelled grenades.

Well I hate to be a hard "results oriented" type as that often over looks the actual problem but it sounds like you and I spent some TAX MONEY on weapons systems like the missiles that Hezbollah bought that couldn't hit Isreal. I'm not saying I'm just saying.

Holy shit if you had a platoon in this situation you would get them the hell out of there....of course unless you didn't give a rip or had some other ideas for them.

I'm not saying I'm just saying