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2004-04-12 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Phil B 2004-04-12 8:56:52 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Jamah Abdullah, 42, an ambulance driver for the Red Crescent Society, said he had been into the city several times in the past few days delivering aid. "There are many people dead. Many wounded. Houses destroyed, damaged. I am doing this to help," he said

My dream answer: "No problem. Your vehicle will be searched first. THOROUGHLY. And if something is found that you shouldn't have, that'll be all she wrote for you."

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-04-12 9:32:26 PM|| 2004-04-12 9:32:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 We need some video of this so that we can show it on the news. This is also a PR war as well as a military war.

A video of an ambulance stopping to pick up a machine gun and leaving the dying or one of the anti-aircraft gun would do a lot to show how things really are. (on the other hand the media probably wouldn't show it....).

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-04-12 9:40:57 PM|| 2004-04-12 9:40:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 CrazyFool has it right. Even if the media messes with us by omission, we need to document this stuff. We need to thoroughly check the stuff, or if we can't check the stuff we need to not let it in. The women and children can come out if they want. The insurgents want the weapons and materael, and if they can't get it, they want suffering and death in the civilian population, both are useful tools of war with them. One other thing we need to do is to either jam the equipment or kill the Al-Jazz correspondents, or throw their asses out of the war zone. They are combatants just as much as the weapon-carrying jihadis. We have to be hardnosed in this battle or we are going to lose it.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-04-12 9:47:14 PM|| 2004-04-12 9:47:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I am so disappointed in our side. I'm trying to imagine, even now, the early romans allowing food and "humanitarian" aid through at the Masada encirclement, as they slowly advanced the seige on the Zealots...I can't!

Posted by smn 2004-04-12 10:18:37 PM|| 2004-04-12 10:18:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't know if I would go that far. Hopefully, the militants will remain well fed. I don't want to encourage them to surrender. The fewer prisoners taken the better.

I would make double sure that the same guy who drives the truck in is the same one that dives the truck out. I once knew a woman that worked at Payless Shoes and told me that there were two fundemental rules to her business:

1. greet the customer when he or she enters the store.

2. visually verify exactly what shoes they wear in to the store against what they wear out of the store.

Maybe they can be named Winona's Laws

Posted by Super Hose 2004-04-12 10:54:36 PM|| 2004-04-12 10:54:36 PM|| Front Page Top

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