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2003-03-24 Iraq

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Posted by Steve White 2003-03-24 09:16 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The article says there are 15,000 of them. Someone needs to get a scorecard handy, and start marking off the ones we kill. Let Sadsack know just how many "trusty warriors" he has left.

As for Baghdad, the best strategy is to surround the city, then begin evacuating the civilians, a street at a time. Once all the civilians are out, drop all of Sadsack's "WMD" on the city, let it sit for a couple of years, then go in and fumigate the place. Won't even be any vermin left.

Posted by Old Patriot 3/24/2003 1:01:37 PM|| 3/24/2003 1:01:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 As illegal combatants they have no protection under the Geneva Accords - indeed their false flag (using the white flag as a ruse to attack) marks them as being completely unstrustorthy. They can (and should be, IMHO) summarily executed, bodies thrown by the side of the road and left for the crows. This accomplishes a couple of things.

1. It stops them from being a further threat - they have already shown that they will not abide by civilized rules, so we should for security reasons eliminate them as a threat.

2. It sets a vivid example for the Fedayeen what their fate will be should they violate the Laws of War.

3. It demonstrates to the regular Iraqi army and civilians that we will act to A) prevent them from being attacked by such animals, and B) highly discourages any of them from taking similar actions.

4. It sends a very clear message to anyone that uses illegal combatants what their fate will be.

Posted by OldSpook 2003-03-24 00:43:21|| 2003-03-24 00:43:21|| Front Page Top

#3 downside to killing them is that the Iraqis will claim we are killing prisoners, our media will show them as dead civilians.

Best to hold them until the end of the war, and turn them over to the new government for revenge.

Posted by flash91 2003-03-24 00:52:16|| 2003-03-24 00:52:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Best to hold them and find out who issued the orders, destroy the Iraqi government and then hold our own military tribunals.

Posted by badanov 2003-03-24 00:57:32|| [www.rkka.org] 2003-03-24 00:57:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Last night a C-130 full with wounded US soldiers landed in Turkey, why didnât they bring the wounded back to Kuwait or Qatar? I guess the army is hiding her casualties and wounded not to demoralize the troops and the public at home.

Posted by Murat 2003-03-24 02:26:57|| 2003-03-24 02:26:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Murat, I've just been watching live TV footage of wounded US troops being unloaded for treatment in Germany, en route back to the US. Hardly "hidden". Think up something more exciting next time if you're looking for conspiracy theories.

Posted by Bulldog 2003-03-24 03:48:55|| 2003-03-24 03:48:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Bulldog, no conspiracy theories buddy, it is clear that CNN is hiding or holding back some news which appears on Al Jazeera.

Posted by Murat 2003-03-24 05:03:30|| 2003-03-24 05:03:30|| Front Page Top

#8 The real payback comes after the war. Ex-soldiers will be strung up in the streets by people who weren't on Saddam's payroll.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-03-24 08:45:31|| 2003-03-24 08:45:31|| Front Page Top

#9 I watched the C-130 land in Germany live on CNN this morning. Keep trying, Murat.

Posted by VAMark 2003-03-24 10:04:04|| 2003-03-24 10:04:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Fuck that. Round the bastards up, and shoot them in the fucking foreheads on national TV.

Fair is fair.

Posted by mojo 2003-03-24 10:22:42|| 2003-03-24 10:22:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Hey, Sammy's got a modern day version of the SS. What a surprise! But the peacemongers say Bush is Hitler. I'm so confused!

Posted by tu3031 2003-03-24 11:02:50|| 2003-03-24 11:02:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Hey, they're sticking their head up now. As much as you think that is an inconvience, it makes life a lot easier later on when you have to hunt them down. Let's understand that in the great triumph in France in '44, there were fights in the ports like Cherbourg and through Brittany while Patton was driving East. Some of the cleaning up of enemy forces in France lasted till the surrender in '45.

These Dead Enders have no life after Saddam, because if we don't do them in, the liberated Iraqis will. Just keep in mind there are going to be even more of them in the big city.

Posted by Don 2003-03-24 11:45:12|| 2003-03-24 11:45:12|| Front Page Top

#13 The article says there are 15,000 of them. Someone needs to get a scorecard handy, and start marking off the ones we kill. Let Sadsack know just how many "trusty warriors" he has left.

As for Baghdad, the best strategy is to surround the city, then begin evacuating the civilians, a street at a time. Once all the civilians are out, drop all of Sadsack's "WMD" on the city, let it sit for a couple of years, then go in and fumigate the place. Won't even be any vermin left.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-03-24 13:01:37|| 2003-03-24 13:01:37|| Front Page Top

#14 Murat, the US also flew casualties from Afghanistan to Germany. Nothing is being hidden.

Why Germany? Good hospitals. We've had 50 years to set up good military hospitals at our German bases, and flying the wounded there is cheaper than building new hospitals everywhere.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-03-24 13:19:11|| 2003-03-24 13:19:11|| Front Page Top

#15 I can see how were trying to hide things because I watched a live real time uncensored frontline firefight on saturday night in Umm Qasr. I dont see any other army doing that sort of thing, but them again, I dont see any other army in history moving 300 miles in 4 days with 175,000 troops.

Somebody warm up to the whaaaaa-ambulance for Murat.

Posted by Frank Martin 2003-03-24 17:51:04|| [varifrank.blogspot.com] 2003-03-24 17:51:04|| Front Page Top

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